Covid inquiry head says Canadian Charter allowed Trudeau Liberals to 'override all of our rights at a whim'

The National Citizens Inquiry was a completely independent assessment of how governments in Canada reacted to the Covid-19 pandemic. It received no money from large corporations or pharmaceutical companies. The commission was almost entirely funded by small donations. 

Inquiry Commissioner Ken Drysdale told The Post Millennial that he believes there has never been an inquiry conducted like this before – at least in Canada, where a national crisis sometimes prompts a Royal Commission that spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and issues a report when the urgency has abated.

Drysdale and the final report are damning of how Canada officially responded to Covid-19, saying that not only did governments at all levels in Canada use the pandemic to violate the rights of basic citizens but Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms proved to be an absolute “failure” to protect those rights and “completely collapsed” when Canadians needed it the most. 

“You know, you talk about Canadians naivete, you know, we as Canadians, for the last 41 or 42 years, walked around with an umbrella closed waiting for a rainy day. And what I'm talking about is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The trouble was that after 40 some years we went to use that umbrella. We opened it up and it was full of holes,” Drysdale said.

“Because essentially what we did was we put a lock on the door. But then we put the key under the mat and told the thief that the key was under the mat and thought the lock was going to protect us …we wrote a Constitution which gave an out to the government: they could essentially declare an emergency and override all of our rights at a whim – and that's what they did.”

Drysdale says the fact that governments could force people to take the Covid vaccine, to wear masks, to shutter their business and to stop going to church is evidence that the Charter of Rights “was a failure as a document. The first time Canadians needed it and needed to lean upon it. It completely collapsed.”

The commissioner says Canadians have become used to governments taking away their rights and they used the pandemic not only to accelerate the loss of those rights but to normalize authoritarian control.

“You have these absolute governments who are shutting down our industry, who are taking away Canadians' rights and freedoms … You know, it wasn't that much of a leap for Canadians to start wearing these masks. When you can be driving down the road minding your own business and police have the right to pull you over for a check-stop and examine you with no probable cause.”

Drysdale notes how in the province of Manitoba, the government used a euphemism for citizens’ telling on each other – just like did and do in totalitarian countries. “The provincial government was encouraging people to stitch on their neighbor but you know, they didn't call it snitching. Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of them. They called that being an ‘ambassador.’”

The inquiry was especially critical of how governments forced people to take the Covid vaccine and Drysdale is furious that people have been denied organ transplants because they remained unvaccinated – even long after it had become a questionable remedy to Covid at the best and a medical threat at worst.

Referring to the case of Sheila Lewis, who died because she couldn’t get an organ transplant, Drysdale says the state “murdered” her. 

“We already knew that the vaccine was dangerous. It didn't prevent Covid, it didn't prevent spread. It had all kinds of issues. They demanded that she take the Covid-19 vaccine and she refused. She had herself tested. She had antibodies to Covid-19.”

“The vaccine didn't prevent spread. It didn't prevent you from getting sick. It had terrible side effects,” says Drysdale.

“We could spend hours talking about this but we cannot just move on. They have committed murder.”

In the inquiry’s final report, issued Nov. 28 but hardly noticed by Canada’s mainstream media, the commission describes how “Governments undertook unprecedented levels of spending—a reality that will impact generations of Canadians to come. Many people lost their lives due to fear, loneliness, and depression. Many others had scheduled surgeries canceled. The doctor–patient relationship was severed when medical appointments were no longer conducted in person. Many had adverse reactions to an experimental biologic injection that many were forced to take against their will. Many people were terrified by the government messaging that increasingly encouraged people to turn on each other.”

The report notes that “Friends, families, and communities were torn apart. The government resorted to name-calling and public shaming, and in so doing, altered the social fabric. Society, as it was known, had now become toxic and, in many ways, dangerous. As a result, the incidence of suicide, violence, and despair increased to unprecedented levels.”

The inquiry visited eight different Canadian cities over 24 days and heard 300 people testify. 

It recommends that the authoritarian experience of the last Covid pandemic not be repeated.

The first recommendation:  “Uphold the Rule of LawReiterate and reinforce the importance of the rule of law in Canada‘s justice system, emphasizing that all individuals, including the government, are subject to the law.”

Drysdale puts it this way: “If you don’t want this to happen again, then [governments] must be held to account.”