Dr. Byram Bridle, MP Derek Sloan, Dr. Patrick Phillips, Don Welsh (Canada) on on Parliament Hill Transcript [June 17, 2021]
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MP Derek Sloan:
Greetings everybody my name is Derek Sloan and I am a member of Parliament for Hastings & Addington. I am very honored to be joined by Dr. Byram Bridle from University of Guelph Dr. Patrick Phillips from Engelhardt hospital and Dr. Don Wells from University Western Ontario.
These esteemed individuals will share their stories with you shortly and I hope you have many questions to ask them, but first I would like to make a brief statement. As many of you already know I’ve been among the most outspoken of all Canadian politicians with my concerns towards the way the federal government in addition to our provinces and territories have responded to the pandemic whether it was never-ending lockdowns the curtailing of constitutional protected rights extreme measures taken against Canadian small businesses or basic concerns about informed consent and vaccination mental health and deferred medical procedures that have caused a cascading effect on her health system. I’ve consistently stood up for Canadians when no other federal party would.
Those of you watching this today may not be aware that several weeks ago I issued a call for whistleblowers to our medical and scientific communities across this country. Doctors, nurses, medical scientists and other experts have indeed reached out to me through various channels to tell me their stories. At times the information they provided has been shocking however, the single uniting factor was that none of their stories were being told either here in parliament or in international media.
In fact these individuals are being blocked at many levels from telling their stories and since Parliament is about speaking the truth and the needs of the people what more fitting location and fitting time then here on Parliament Hill to do this today.
One of the first whistleblowers to reach out to me was a concerned nurse who has spent over 20 years working in a hospital in my writing of Hastings Lennix and Addington. For her own protection I will not name her today. When she reached out to my office it was to inform me that the local hospital she worked in was experiencing very low numbers of Covid patients that is until they took in many patients from Toronto hotspots which artificially raise the number of Covid patients in our community in a way that was not accurately reflected in the local media reports the public it made it look like locally we had a lot more active cases than we truly had. This type of fear mongering in media reports is been a major issue of concern throughout this pandemic.
Even worse , this nurse informed me that many of the sick patients had in fact already been vaccinated. This was not something we were hearing from our local health officials and local media reports. Even worse this honest and diligent nurse was afraid to say anything publicly because the College of nurses of Ontorio was threatening nurses who spoke out with what they were personally witnessing in their hospitals. Anecdotal stories such as this came in with several frontline medical professionals reaching out to me with each passing day.
It gets worse on the whistleblower file things drastically changed in April 30, 2021. The College of physicians and surgeons of Ontario known as CPSO issued a dire statement threatening any doctor who spoke out about what they were witnessing on the front lines of our hospitals in their own clinics and in our communities. The purpose of governing bodies like the CPSO is to protect the public not to stifle legitimate scientific inquiry or dissent by professional doctors but this attempt to intimidate doctors into silence have the opposite effect.
My office was inundated with calls of concern at the time we begin working very closely with multiple groups of doctors and other concerned medical professionals. These honest and hard-working doctors are fully galvanized against the regressive authoritarian overreach of the CBSO and other similar governing bodies I’m going to share a couple of stories that have been shared with me from medical professionals and ordinary Canadians and then the doctors here today will share their perspectives as well the first notes around vaccination from an individual who can’t share her name due to potential job repercussions in her words to me are Derek I am a 30-year-old female citizen of Winnipeg who is recently pressured by healthcare workers in the media to take the golden vaccine. I was told that the benefits outweigh the risks, but I now realize that I was never informed of any of the potential risks.
Four days after my first and only Pfizer dose I was diagnosed with heart inflammation and fluid buildup around my heart I’m now on anti-inflammatories for three months that have the potential of injury to only kidney and she adds I was born with only one kidney. The media keeps saying that these cases are rare and that they typically happen in young men but so far she says I know three other Winnipeg women who have also developed heart issues post shot and she notes that we are all young under 35 years old well this is all concerning she goes on to say the most concerning part is that we are still being advised by our doctors to get a second dose. At this point it feels like they are purposely trying to harm us.
The second note I received comes from one of our honorable members of the Canadian forces and again I received so many notes I could’nt go over them all but I picked a few to share today. I want to thank our members of our Canadian forces for courageously doing their job and for this particular member for sharing this note with me.
Good morning Mr. Sloan he says I am a CAF member who fundamentally believes that Canadians are being misled and taken advantage of by our government institutions. I feel it is my obligation to contribute to the betterment of our country and the safety of our citizens as of Friday my COC is posting a 90% vaccination rate within the CAF. This was achieved by the following requirements:
#1 CAF members are required to complete the DLN course before having a vaccination appointment scheduled on their behalf at a mass vaccination clinic on base with staff other CAF members and PHAC public health agency of Canada officials.
#2. All members are required to attend the clinic regardless of their personal wishes to receive the vaccine or not. Upon arrival members are seated and given a two page briefing document which summarizes the information in the online course. Members are then ushered one by one into cubicles and asked if they wish to receive the vaccine a P hack nurse is on site to answer the questions. The member is free to leave after 15 minute period of observation.
In my experience he goes on to say, I felt that both times I went to the clinic that I was being pressured and encouraged to blindly accept the process on my second visit which was much more aggressive. I was directed to speak with the public health nurse who advised me that I was not authorized to obtain the vaccine from civilian sources and that the vaccine was in short supply and that it was just like a flu shot which would have many follow-up booster shots.
I asked the nurse when the vaccine would be licensed in Canada out of interim use authorization and was stunned when she knew nothing of the actual process. I am concerned for my fellow members he says. I have witnessed my coworkers suffer vaccine injury in the past and ensure that the military will cover up the true devastation caused as it has done before with suicides.
There is talk that the vaccine will be mandatory for all CAF members in November. My solemn plea to you is that this is somehow prevented. We are currently being told to be leaders and take the vaccine and if this happens it won’t be long before all Canadians will be subject to mandatory vaccination. Thank you for your time a scared CAF member so I shared a couple of private notes with you to be from Canadians involving their interaction or their interactions with health professionals and institutions.
As you can see we should be asking questions about this process but whenever someone does so they are intimidated or censored by whoever it is that they are there are reporting to with that in mind it became clear that I had to convene a summit today to tell you personally and directly about the censorship several doctors are facing here in the country and these doctors that with me today are indicative of many many more doctors and I’ve spoken with dozens and dozens of them personally and I’m certain there are hundreds of doctors and scientists across this country who are facing extreme pressure and censorship for asking legitimate scientific questions
Many people at high levels across the federal and provincial governments are misleading the public and the media must now hold these officials accountable for their lack of transparency and honesty on these matters in these troubling times I thank you for being here today and all I can say is God bless Canada thank you so much for being here with me today Dr. bridal would you tell us your story here at front thank you.
Dr. Byram Bridle:
First of I like to thank MP Derek Sloan for giving us opportunity to speak here today being able speak openly about my ideas and my experiences is unfortunately an unusual experience.
I would also really like to think Dr. Don Welsh and Dr. Patrick Phillips here standing shoulder to shoulder with me today – really appreciate that and that indeed I know that each of us are representing a huge number of people that are backing us and also like to thank the Canadian public.
I’m undergoing a very public smear campaign right now and it is very difficult but I am receiving hundreds of emails every day from people from all across Canada and also other parts of the world as well which are very supportive so I say for every vicious attack they receive I probably get about 50 notes of support and encouragement and that’s why I’m here today.
So my name is Byron and I am an associate professor of viral immunology at the University of Guelph and since the pandemic was declared I have been trying to serve as a voice of objective scientific opinion so that the public can make the most informed decisions for themselves possible when it comes to issues related to Covid-19. So didn’t have a problem with this publicly although I don’t like being in front of people all that much I tend to be more of an introverted individual however I am a publicly funded servant, public servant, you pay for it Canadians from your tax dollars. I work at an academic institution which is publicly funded and therefore I see it is my responsibility to Canadians that when they have questions that they can come to me and asked the questions and if they are pertinent to my areas of expertise that I feel is my responsibility to give the most informed answer that I can so that they can help make informed decisions.
Two weeks ago I gave an interview. It was a five minute radio interview the company that runs the radio show did nothing wrong. The host asked me one question and she did absolutely nothing wrong she was doing her job. The question she asked me was if I knew whether or not there could be a possible link between Covid 19 vaccines in cases of heart inflammation that have been reported around the world and young males. In this case it was 12 young males in Israel and I’ve been delving into the literature very deeply because I’m a vaccinologist and my entire research program is based on the development of novel vaccines and my publication record is based on publishing information about vaccines so I have a lot of expertise in this area and indeed I have along with a large number of collaborators both within Canada and internationally have developed some serious concerns about the consent of the current Covid-19 vaccines and so I felt that I could express concern and that there might be a possible link between the heart information that is occurring and Covid 19 vaccines. After I did this interview five minutes again trying to present to a lay audience it was like a nuclear bomb went off in my world and my life was thrown upside down.
I am sure my life will never be the same again so within 24 hours there was a libelous website that was put up using my domain name, a fake twitter account was developed to slander me and I’ve been undergoing daily attacks either through email people attempting to call me. Definatly in the social media and I never had a presence within the social media until recently, I now have a fake social media presence.
It been very hard on the my family and I should also mention I’m experiencing harassment, lots of harassment, in the workplace. Now with that said I want to point out and from the University Guelph the administration of institution has made very clear that they are very supportive of me. They honor and respect that the basic tenet of academic freedom and freedom of speech so from institution I really appreciate that, but there’s colleagues of mine who have been harassing me both in the social media and in the workplace. It has even gone so far as to have one of the members of the Ontario Covid 19 science advisory committee they were actually the first ones to post the link to the slanderous website and they have fanned the flames of this smear campaign quite strongly since then they even went so far as to release confidential medical information about my parents this is an egregious act as a practicing physician a practicing physician should know that they should not be releasing confidential information about peoples medical information in the social realm so these are the types of things that I’ve been experiencing over the past couple weeks.
After three days I was like a walking zombie. I got about one half hours of sleep the first several nights then I got it together because my support network about a couple of colleagues locally at my institution that has stood shoulder to shoulder with me. I’m part of the www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org and
this is a group of individuals in fact the reason that we exist is sad we exist because we’re like-minded in the sense that we all want to be able to speak openly and freely about the science and medicine underpinning Covid 19 and we don’t feel safe to do so anywhere else other than within our own private group where we feel safe.
The group is going to 100 members and is still rapidly growing. It’s quite new and only two of us are willing to talk to the media about this group. The others are too afraid for their jobs, they’re afraid physicians that are afraid to lose a license to practice and their academics and other professionals who are afraid that they are going to lose their jobs. So what I’m going to talk about right now is exactly why I’ve been harassed. So the science that I am going to talk about very briefly I don’t have much time it’s going to be very brief but if you want more information about this I’ve written a comprehensive guide for parents so they can make informed decisions about Covid 19 vaccines when it comes to vaccinating their children. This guide you can find at the website for the Canadian Covid care alliance so that is CanadianCovidCarealliance.org and what happened in this interview when I was asked if I’m concerned or if I saw potential for link between heart inflammation and the Covid 19 vaccines I said I did and this is why what we have learned and we’ve learned this from a large body of scientific literature.
We’ve also learned this from reports that were submitted by Pfizer themslves to regulatory agencies one particular to regulatory agency in Japan and what we have learned is I am very familiar with vaccines and traditional vaccine technology would tell us that when you put a vaccine into the shoulder and that’s where we get vaccinated with Covid 19 vaccines traditional vaccine technology tells the vaccine would stay on the shoulder and what happiness cells from immune system would come and pick up the spike protein all these vaccines get our bodies to manufacture the spike protein so cells in the system pick up a spike protein take it to the local draining lymph node and activate the immune system. That’s why often we get sick or we been vaccinated sometimes the lymph nodes swell because that’s where immune response is happening in your BNT cells go through the body to look for the virus.
Okay, so this was an assumption and I accept that at the early on in the pandemic and when we were first rolling out these vaccines we had largely worked based on assumptions but you know what the scientific literature has exploded over the last 16 months and we understand so much more okay and so now are looking at vaccinating children and it’s no longer okay to proceed based on assumptions.
So what we have found is this assumption about the vaccine remaining the shoulder does not apply to this novel vaccine technology. It has never been in people before these messenger RNA vaccines get distributed throughout the whole body.
What we found in fact is that as little as 25% of the dose remains in the shoulder and it traffics all over the body. Also, many of you might’ve heard of polyethylene glycol because that is one of the components of the vaccine that sometimes people develop an anaphalactic shock.
Okay, the polyethylene glycol was put in this formulation, people realize these lipid nanoparticles have little bubbles of fat that carry this little blueprint that helps our cells make the spike protein is that the nanoparticles were actually originally designed to disperse through the body.
They were designed to be gene therapy vectors and also carry drug cargo especially into the brain or could be used to treat things like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancers that polyethylene glycol just so that you know is designed to help facilitate that spread through the body get about five fold greater spread through the body with the polyethylene glycol. You know why because when the polyethylene glycol is there and actually helps the nanoparticles bypass the very cells of your immune system they’re supposed to pick up the antigen and take it to her lymph nodes so arguably by having a polyethylene glycol they are not only promoting spread through the body we may actually be dampening the very functionality of the vaccine that we want.
Okay, a lot of this is speculation of course but what we do know for sure what is not speculation as vaccine spreads through the body we also know is that proper studies not been conducted remarkably this is based on a rat study study done in rats and that’s appropriate as a starting point but should not be the endpoint that should’ve been done at least two animal models.
It has been on people (study) and it has not been done at all with the actual vaccine formulation that we are administering for children. The actual vaccine formulation has not even been evaluated. What’s been evaluated is the lipid nano particle technology but not the vaccine itself.
Even when it comes to reproductive studies, when the reproductive studies were done, only female mice, were our female rodents revaccinated the males, were not and also what people don’t realize there were no evidence of any issues with that with fertility people don’t realize that these rodents are completely inappropriate models for covert 19 they don’t express the receptor like we do so of course you going to see safety in a model like that is an appropriate animal model so I’m trying to get out to you here is there there are studies there that sure we are told the note there would be no shortcuts there have been shortcuts okay I can understand when in a panic and were trying to deal with something that we felt was extremely dangerous and I can understand again moving based on assumptions what remember I’m focusing on here our children and vaccinating healthy children mass vaccination of millions of healthy Canadian children demands but the level of safety associated with this the assess safety profile has to be exceptionally high right we’ve had 13 Canadians under the age of 20 die in 16 months with well over two and half thousand dying from other causes okay so this is discipline a perspective so we really need to focus on the safety here and the what I want to point out is this science is backed up by many scientists and many physicians including one of the inventors of messenger RNA vaccine technology Dr. Robert Malone okay so this is a genuine concern for children and where this leads me to is by expressing this site might my career may very well been destroyed and I I don’t understand that it is incomprehensible to me this is happened okay but as Canadians we have to ask yourself do you want your physicians and scientists their voices suppressed we are polarized right now were are polarized in Canada with people on both sides were just as passionate we feel that we are trying to look after the best interests were doing our cost benefit analysis for example in my case with children and I honestly feel that by proceeding with vaccination right now without conducting the proper safety test we may do more harm than good I passion about that but I’m respectful of those who hold the opposite opinion I would ask for the same for myself and my colleagues we can’t suppress open discussion of science and medicine in Canada if that is the hallmark of a democratic society okay and what he thinks I want to point out as I’m here representing physician scientists members of the media who feel suppressed and have also been asked to represent some politicians who approached me privately who feel that their jobs at risk and MP Derek Sloan can certainly attest to what happens if you speak up too much about trying to have open discussions okay so I want to end here I want to point out that Dr. Patrick Phillips is going to be speaking in a few minutes and I want you to know that he’s one physician but he it represents hundreds right I’ve been contacted by hundreds of physicians who support his viewpoint and he is going to present with you some things that will allow us to safely cause these vaccines because unlike Patrick Philip and Phillips and his colleagues have effective strategies for preventing and treating Covid 19 that would allow us to take a pause on these vaccines okay so right now I don’t recognize the country that I was born into and I was simply asked all Canadians please right I simply want us to learn to respect one another again thank you very much
Dr. Patrick Phillips:
Thank you very much Byram and thank you very much Derek for for organizing this and having us here I have been told we are pressed for time so I will de brief I want to I want to bring out my main points that I’m a family and the family physician I I practice medicine in town Englehart Ontario primarily in emergency department at Lance River health and I first got into speaking out seeing the massive harms from these lockdowns on my patients I’ve never seen so many suicidal children I’ve never seen so many cases of people coming into the emergency department for the first time with metastatic cancer and and seeing those harms I I made a decision in the to myself that I knew that I couldn’t live with myself if I did not speak out and the reason I was afraid to speak out was because there were rumors in the medical community that the college was coming after people who chose to do that and that I’ve had many brave predecessors before me like Dr. Corbin who bravely spoke out anyways but what happened this spring on April 30 the College of physicians and surgeons of Ontario came out with a very chilling statement basically saying that it’s the professional responsibility of all physicians not to communicate anti-vaccine anti-masking anti-distancing and anti-lockdown statements and or promoting an un-‘s unsupported unproven treatments for Covid 19 they were very explicit and and threatened investigation and discipline for any physicians who express any of the negative aspects of any of these interventions no matter what the evidence the evidence is and I have to say over this last year I’ve done a lot of research of looking into that looking into the evidence around lockdowns but especially around treatments and I want to I wanted to especially make a point around a few treatments one of them for example is vitamin D which which our health minister has has named fake news but I want to emphasize that there’s over 85 studies in 27 treatment trials many of these are peer-reviewed scientific literature sure that that shown a 56% reduction in mortality in patients who take vitamin D compared to those who don’t for Covid 19 but even more so because that was very early on what we’ve learned in these last few months is about Ivermectin we have on our hands a very safe treatment that’s one Nobel Prize billions of doses have been administered throughout the world because it’s a commonly used antiparasitic that over-the-counter in many many countries around the world and world leading scientific and physician researchers Dr. Paul Emeric and Dr. Pierre Kory had been shouting from the rooftops around this medication because at this point we have 97 studies and over 30 randomized controlled trials that have shown a huge benefit to this medication in reducing the risk of death and hospitalization in patients who have Covid and not only does this treat patients with Covid especially when you give it early but there is also a role in this 14 randomized controlled trials for prophylaxis meaning taking this medication for high risk patients early it can reduce your chance of catching Covid in the first place which is especially relevant for long-term care homes and for healthcare workers in hospitals and at this point that the college of physicians has launched investigations against many my colleagues including myself threatening to take our licenses away for promoting what they call unproven treatment but what about what the scientific peer-reviewed literature shows is very well supported in the science around these treatments and so I’ve made a decision to myself likewise like like when I decided to speak out about lockdowns I could not live with myself if I have a patient sitting in front of Covid 19 and they can’t breathe or there at high risk of being hospitalized or dying I can’t just stand in front of them knowing what I know is 75% reduction in mortality and not give this to my patients but more so seeing what’s what’s happening with the Ontario science people not recommending this medication even recommending against vitamin D which I think is unthinkable as the harm is not this is a natural substance and are telling us not to give this to these patients despite mortality benefit I know there’s something wrong going wrong and I knew I needed to speak out no matter what the college does to my license because at this point there’s there’s bigger things going on in my career and I I think Byram for bring that up but there’s there’s something bigger than my medical career at this point because lives are being lost and and we need to speak out and so thank you Derek for for for having me here to get this message out and I think we are moving on Dr.
Dr. Don Welsh you’re on you if you could please unmute yourself hello we can hear you say thank you my names Dr. Donald Welsh, professor of physiology at University of Western Ontario and like Dr. Carolyn Phillips I’m a public servant and I have the privilege of speaking out and publicly addressing some I think some concerns I thought I would start today by just considering some of the words of Richard Raymond who is a physicist and Nobel laureate whimsically stated the following about science if you don’t make mistakes you’re doing it wrong if you don’t correct those mistakes you’re doing it really wrong and if you can’t accept your mistaken and you’re not doing it all this axiom poignantly frames where we sit today into expiratory viral response we have been told by public health community to follow the science but that science has been incorrect and as a society we are uncomfortable confronting this fact instead we plow forward and we are subjected to a bus occasion in this direction no one or no institution can ever proclaim to be an oracle in science we uncover the truth from today that is boisterous and sometimes unpleasant but when reasoning is combined with transparency science moves society forward in a productive manner I want to be clear that science is not been functioning properly the last 15 months as we address Covid 19 our public health community has proclaimed to know science and provide unassailable solutions those solutions in the Barnes of NDI’s lockdowns mass track and trace and social distance perhaps well-intentioned and largely failed and they have created a remarkable list of partnerships Canadians that will take this country many years to recover from the reason I and Dr. Byram and Phillips are caretakers and want to reclaim what we love about science in particular particular on here to support Dr. Phillips in Bridle who have worked hard to reveal what they see is the truth their thoughts on patient treatment and vaccination are well considered back with published data informed by government databases for this they have been publicly attacked openly ridiculed their academic and personal livelihoods threatened his behavior is unacceptable in Canada and is antithetical to an open and enlightened society it is time for all in Canada to engage in critical thinking to question all aspects of public health response to Covid 19 we need deep engagement we need thoughtful debate in turn to turn this public health response around this public health response has not kept up with facts on the ground it’s time for Canada to right our ship And move forward productively together this includes I believe in the end of full and robust Royal commission to publicly address the many flaws that appeared on
this public response thank you thank.
Derek Sloan, MP:
Thank you so much what moving presentations I am just stunned thank you so much for for telling your stories and we all I know personally I recommit to standing for what is true in this country whatever the cost thank you so much for that it was so moving thank you all for listening to this today and I hope that this is spread far and wide until we see some sanity in this country once again.