OTTAWA – Moms, dads, daughter, sons, brothers, sisters, grandparents, lawyers, doctors, cops, pilots, military veterans, a United States senator and just plain hard-working, honest Canadians.
They came into the capital from all across the country for one main reason – they just wanted to be heard.
And thanks to the Allison Inquiry on vaccine injuries on Parliament Hill, they finally were. While this does not bring any of their loved ones back, or fix their careers, or end any stigmas they live with, this was still was something these fine Canadians needed.
It was an acknowledgment that what they experienced, witnessed and struggled through was not a figment of their imagination but something very real and worthy of study. The 50 witnesses out of the 1,400 cases who offered to testify are not conspiracy theorists or anti-vaxxers or troublemakers. They are people who shared their lived experience stemming from the vaccination effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We just wanted to give people a chance to tell their stories,” said Grimsby MP Dean Allison, who added he wanted a setting that was safe and where people could testify without ridicule or being shouted down.
He achieved that.
Now should come a truce between all sides and everybody get on the same side of the table so that all perspectives are considered on public health and public safety.
“Come to Sean’s grave and see how real it is” Dan Hartman’s invitation to @acoyne following his X post calling the @AllisonInquiry inquiry “horseshit.” Sean died at 17.
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) September 11, 2026
Dan leads off Day 4 of first hand accounts of wounds/injuries following rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations pic.twitter.com/PXgm7A8b2k
Unlikely? Yes. Necessary? Definitely.
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Allison gave vax injured a voice
Whatever happens next is anybody’s guess. But Allison gave a lot of the COVID era’s voiceless a microphone.
Watching on livestream or in the hearing room in person, it has been a compelling four days. Even legendary UFC fighter Georges St. Pierre gave a shoutout to the brave and courageous people who came to testify.
🚨 BREAKING: UFC LEGEND GEORGES ST-PIERRE SENDS MESSAGE OF SUPPORT TO 'COVID-19 VACCINE' INJURED AND FAMILIES WHO LOST LOVED ONES TESTIFYING ON PARLIAMENT HILL IN OTTAWA
— Dave Freedom (@DaveFreedom4) September 7, 2026
UFC World Champion @GeorgesStPierre (GSP) sends a message of support to Canadians who will testify at the… pic.twitter.com/OKu8iyrqwk
There were so many participants and compelling stories that it’s difficult to zero in on any one, but here are some of the highlights from my perspective. And brave and courageous people who outweighed the catcalling bullies who labelled what was happening there as a fake and outright “horses—.”
Said Dan Hartman, who’s son Sean got sick four days after getting his first COVID-19 shot so he could play hockey, “I invite any of the people who say that to come to my son’s gravesite or that of the others who also lost loved ones.”
Doctor and cop disciplined for wanting to protect society
It’s real for them. But government and big pharma seemed to not be interested in hearing differing perspectives.
Not a pin dropping at the @AllisonInquiry as Det. Helen Grus tells her story about being smeared for wanting child deaths to be investigated pic.twitter.com/dfVrov0344
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) September 10, 2026
Still working, Ottawa Police Det. Helen Grus, who told the Inquiry her nightmare came when she was alerted by a fellow cop there had been a “double or triple” spike in baby deaths and she took this information to her superiors who subsequently end up charging her and disciplining her.
Dr. Charles Hoffe told the inquiry when he noticed what he thought were six cases of adverse reactions people in his long-running practice, he was not met with people wanting to dig into it but with internal discipline and efforts to take way his medical license.
Det. Helen Grus said she was suspicious of baby’s dying and used her training as a cop “if you see something, say something” only to get suspended because it was questioning COVId-19 vax. pic.twitter.com/51kaRcG4Ak
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) September 10, 2026
You don’t want your inquisitive investigators to be afraid to be inquisitive. But that’s what happened. An us versus them scenario incurred and still exists.
Allison told the inquiry he wants to see a day where people constructively talk about all things on the table and leave as friends after considering all sides.
This kind of negative reaction to anybody raising any red flags surrounding vaccinations was a common theme expressed here. That this kind of response is replaced in the future with a more open, fair and inquiring mind may be the most important change that could come from these hearings.
When someone in a police unit or medical clinic or school or media or research lab notices something, there must be a more open-minded approach to hear them out and not immediately shut them down and freeze them out.
CBC accused of using shows for ‘propaganda’
And you don’t want a media outlet that iss not open to covering all sides of a story and, even worse, scrubbing or censoring it as if it didn’t happen.
By the end of the Allison Inquiry a lot of mainstream media came around and started following the standard already set by independent media and they reported on the events transpiring there.
If you have 8 minutes to spare watch this incredible testimony with receipts by Rodney Palmer who had a 20 year career as a foreign correspondent for CTV news and was an investigative reporter for CBC Radio & Television in Canada and abroad.
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) September 11, 2026
He lays down an incredible timeline… pic.twitter.com/30TTLfUSan
But that’s not enough. All information should be presented so members of the public can make up their own minds.
Former reporter Rodney Palmer eviscerated his former employer the CBC by saying they went from being a “public broadcaster” to being a state broadcaster, which he recognized from when he was a reporter for CTV in China. Palmer said the CBC used its main on-air talent to show people how to respond to family members raising concerns about the vaccines and to spread outright propaganda and going around parents to spread misinformation on CBC Kids.
CBC‘s Head of Public Affairs Chuck Thompson responded by saying, “CBC News covered the COVID-19 pandemic thoughtfully and thoroughly, addressing all its many complexities. How people assess our coverage of that story is their prerogative.”
Of course, the most important part of Allison inquiry was the testimony of people who were free to speak and shake off groupthink. It included those who have been left with physical disabilities, others who lost loved ones, and many who were subject to ridicule and treated like lepers by some in a loud and cruel pack, callously telling them what they are experiencing is all in their head.
None of that should happen again. And, in the words Hartman, there is something the system can also do.
“Just acknowledge” that sometimes vaccines injure and result in death rather than discredit and avoid. Certainly, something better has to be done than what happened during this pandemic.
The dead and injured deserve a change in approach for their suffering and as part of their legacy.
A short interview with BC Dr. Charles Hoffe who testified at the @AllisonInquiry that he was investigated and punished when he tried to point out the health and safety dangers he was seeing with his patients. pic.twitter.com/5QHb0XPpR5
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) September 10, 2026