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    Pable Picasso Le Pengouin 1907 • Trump: US Controls Hormuz Strait, ‘I Think We Will Keep It’ (ZH) • Why We Fight (Kenneth R. Timmerman) • How Zelensky
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 13 2026]

    #247288
    tboc
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    only 90 Hours of Hate left this week, where does the time go?

    #247289
    Michael Reid
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    #247290
    Dr. D
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    That’s Pengouin, not Pangolin.

    “Hasan Piker’s “Touch Of Death”? Far-Left Francesca Hong Loses Wisconsin’s Dem Primary For Governor

    This is bad, since the DSA loonies have far less chance in the general election. Please make DSA candidates for every DNC Primary.

    Bernie Sanders tells Carville, the election-winner to get out of the way. Bernie supports Hasan and likewise wants the streets to run red with the blood of Americans. He’s in strong support, what can I say?

    “CNN Panel Melts Down As Democrats Blast GOP Over El-Sayed Ad For Using His Full Name

    The only Enemy is Truth. Any Truth, anywhere, about anyone.

    , “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” — CIA Director Casey

    What a coincidence it is exactly these same people, in CNN anchors, Fox guests, ex-CIA officials, CIA Press-release re-posters, CIA-funded newsrooms like WaPo, and CIA allies like MI6 who do the very same thing today. And are also against all and every declassification.

    “FBI had 14 informants on Biden corruption but ran secret operation to dismiss evide
    nce as disinformation”

    Tucker says Biden is good for it. No corruption here! President Hunter. He’s from a CIA family and Fox News, and Tucker was a registered Democrat most of his life, why would Tucker lie?

    “The US Marshals have been ORDERED by a federal judge in North Carolina to take James Comey into CUSTODY “

    Must be election season is starting.

    “The boa constrictor squeezing its prey: Trump: US Controls Hormuz Strait, ‘I Think We Will Keep It’ (ZH)

    Always the citizens who pay.

    As I said earlier (in reverse) Trump does not have control of the strait. Iran can still damage things there. Control would mean he can decide what goes in and out. However, Iran doesn’t have that control either, and one of the nations is larger and has taken no damage while moving $100B/wk of revenue to themselves.

    There were more reports of shutting off more rat lines of finance, shadow banking, but Bessant doesn’t advertise them much. Some of these are still in Dubai (a British bastion). But it’s very hard to hide them, especially with AI.

    “leaving Iran to press its own vision of management over the Strait of Hormuz with Oman.”

    Apparently this means bomb anything that moves and all their neighbors. Generally “Managing” means preserving things, not exploding them. I mean, that’s what I want in a General Manager of Taco Bell. I don’t generally want him running executions on non-paying customers, that’s not “managing” either. Note which side uses words in this way, which have no meaning, to their #Opposite, #AntiLogos.

    Iranian military leaders are declaring that “victory is on our side”.

    If you mean “Iran will continue to exist” then yes, that was always the outcome. However, they’ve added damaged wells, 10 years, plus damaged bridges and ports to their problems. They are definitively dropping to the level of Saudi Arabia.

    “That leaves Trump’s strategy resting on a risky assumption that Iran will crack before Washington does.”

    Does it? Is that their goal? President Vance may be willing to keep this up 12 more years.

    “reports from Israel resurfaced an earlier claim by the current IRGC Chief, Ahmad Vahidi, that Iran would continue to develop nuclear weapons as long as the United States and Israel possessed them.”

    Would they use them? I think you’d have to annoy them pretty badly, same as now. That was my position before the war. However, having seen their actions, I have come around to the opposite view. They would DEFINITELY use them for extortion all the way from Denmark, Panama, and Malacca. Don’t really care about Israel. I also didn’t grasp the details of the delivery system, which was only for nuclear use. So having some uranium Little Boy didn’t mean as much to me. Put together it is pretty clearly a Dr. No system, and I can see why that’s a problem. For us? Meh. We’re thousands of miles away, and if Europe wants to be extorted forever, I don’t care.

    However, we ARE in military agreements with all the Gulf States and are their army. It also appears more likely by the day that Iran is a Satrap of Globalists and the Derp State and not really working for Russia and China as suggested. It’s complicated, as is the Derp State M.O. “crooked AF”.

    There are two other levels: One, pretty clearly Israel said they would blow up …something. New Jersey? If we didn’t act first, and probably with nukes. They have crazies in Tel Aviv who would. Why now? (See below) That makes this the LEAST-Bad outcome and that’s on IRAN’S behalf. I mean, unless they prefer getting nuked. I personally would intervene to prevent Iran from begin nuked, even over their objection.

    This is the “Red Line” that was carefully set up in the media months or a year before, around the time of Butler. So this part is planned. Forcing Trump into a war was planned, and not by Israel, as it’s planned to REMOVE him. Why would Israel remove a guy acting FOR them? And Iran doesn’t Run Fox News and Tucker Carlson. But London or Davos can! So it was specifically planned to FORCE Trump over the Red Lines of his base in order to remove him. He did, but in usual form, helped them But GOOD and Hard. Now they don’t like it.

    Suppose he did not act. Refused. They would just activate the SAME issue when he tried to clear up the U.S. Suppose he did Save Act, arrested thousands, called a Emergency, whatever. London would then activate the Middle East WHILE that was going on, making an intolerable situation. This had to be removed first so that assets were already used up and off the table.

    It’s pretty clear to me anyway. And I didn’t know this before all these agents acted.

    “unexpectedly adopted a friendlier tone, while Republican senators added pressure by reviving Lindsey Graham’s proposed “hellish sanctions”

    WHO is doing this? Not the American people. Not even Weapons manufacturers. Would seem no one exists to by off and control these congressmen (and media) but Europe, which evidence we see over and over daily. They are the sole qui bono.

    “There were no new military aid packages. There was no dramatic escalation of pressure on Moscow”

    Wait, all the Alexes and everyone say WE are the spearhead of the Ukraine war. Strange way to run it. “Pressure on Moscow” is kind of underselling no sanctions whatsoever on Russia’s primary or sole income, oil. And regular hour-long phone calls with Trump. It would almost seem Russia is more allied with us than France.

    What else does this tell us? Europe is still on Plan A. It’s been years, they have no way to extricate themselves from Russia. Now they COULD just surrender and buy oil, BUT THEY WOULD COLLAPSE. A banking collapse on collateral. Which was all fraud. Now EUROPE would survive, the people, and THEY would be reduced to the level of the FSU, 1999. But they could just work and recover. However, the Globalist homeland would be destroyed with their wealth and power, as all doors to flee to (China, Dubai) have been shut.

    So no. Every European must die. That’s Europe’s Plan A, and it’s chugging along nicely. Except 1) The U.S. refuses to fight Russia for them and 2) Russia is inevitably winning.

    • President Trump Announces Release of Robert Gilman from Russian Jail

    It appears Trump and Putin have a strong relationship. Of course Putin may say “Open the records of this case and prove what was going on.” That is, declassify. We don’t know this part.

    ““’A few socialist militants are poisoning the Democratic Party..”
    • The US Is Facing A New Red Menace – From Within (Robert Bridge)

    Not at all. I’ve been complaining for years that average Democrats are more Socialist than Mao. (Mao believed in borders, guns, and gender). Now the average Democrat didn’t THINK that’s where they were positioned, but ask them 10 questions and it was very clear they were since 2000. And violently against all working people since NAFTA 1992.

    So it’s not a few. It’s like 20% DSA as billed, but more than 80% in this general sense, generational. They would rather die than profit, which is an option. They do not believe in work, at all, ever, only Government. Lifetimes, it seems normal to them. As you see. How hard is it to Disavow? Carville is almost the only one, and far too late.

    Fair list of the 5 groups there, from core out to fringe Trotsky “Kill everyone forever” plan.

    “• Patriots Won’t Let Communists Take America (J.B. Shurk)

    Then stop them. What are you doing? Are any of them involved in city politics? No, while Antifa would die for their cause.

    “Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.”

    They already did, see COVID. And the Republicans are helping, also 90% Statists, where government does everything.

    So how do you win when every agency, influencer, school, judge, and legislature has already been captured at this late hour? A: Like This. Exactly what you see in the news every day is how you win back against them. Ayn Rand pointed this out generations ago and it’s working.

    Just as here:
    Toon

    Trick is, people have to SEE it and FEAR it without ACTUALLY being too far over the edge, too much power ceded.

    So that means the Good have to be deceptive, which is not their strong suit. The people have to be terrorized while still deciding to resist anyway.

    Reminds me of the Meme “We’re at the part of Atlas Shrugged where the power goes out and no one looks or knows why.” (Spain)

    LockheedShruggedPic

    But I also forgot to add yesterday, that the Socialist Leader of Spain not only wasn’t MAD about all the rapes he’s causing, he doesn’t even LIE about it. He doesn’t even pretend to do something, then doesn’t. He’s not even aware he SHOULD be mad about, you know, rape, i.e. that it’s a BAD thing.

    “It’s just a collection of cells.” Your daughter is in her 67th Trimester.

    This is what you have with no Religion. Or a religion of the state. Nothing is sacred because it’s all material. Without God, there are no rules but “What I like”, what I just thought up a second ago. We need that tether and that touchstone or it’s instant madness.

    “• Swedish PM Calls Spanish Illegal Immigrant Amnesty ‘Very Bad Idea’ (ET)

    Yes, in great irony, like I said, Sweden, France, culture may actually survive better than Ireland, UK, Canada. Even if it’s violent. They have a stronger sense of “This is our people”. Anglos not as much.

    American dodged this for another whole reason, that we’re entirely practical. It’s dum. Dum to import that many people, cuts wages, so gfy.

    What became known as “The Terror” was started not by the working class, but by educated lawyers, journalists, and even aristocrats”

    Socialism is always from Upper-Class utopians who haven’t ever worked. Meme: “I’m upset that my parents never got rich enough for me to be a Socialist” – Lou Perez.

    “but privacy groups worry about mass tracking.”

    They cray-cray. What evidence is there they track anything for government? With no warrants?

    BTW that’s what a Cybercab is. A government tracking device for citizens. Elon is the head of the Global Panopticon, now in space.

    #247291
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Test

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    #247293
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    While the US is in high panic about “the rise of China” and its failing warmongering in the word, Beijing is at its most relaxed yet. Turns out, China is confident that it won the race roughly 10 years ago and is now only working on expanding its lead.

    Professor Wang Wen, Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, discusses how Chinese scholars view Trump’s second administration, trade pressure, China’s domestic development, and US-China competition. He shares his views on Iran, Taiwan risks, BRICS, the Belt and Road Initiative, global governance, green energy, AI, and why he believes cooperation can replace conflict.

    #247296
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “While the US is in high panic about “the rise of China” and its failing warmongering in the word, “

    This is definitively, overwhelmingly not true.

    Outside the Twitterati, nobody cares.

    If they totally, completely don’t care, and haven’t in years, then you can imagine how 99% less AVERAGE Americans don’t care.

    And that’s smart, since nothing’s happening. All the risk is from US. Even Trump said, “Why shouldn’t China take everything if all American business and government will just give it all to them?” Since NAFTA, 1992, Sandia Labs, our stealth bombers, all the process patents, and everything else. CHINA is not the problem with ANY of that, and never has been. Every American knows this. This isn’t even in dispute with us. “China” never comes up in “They sent muh jobs to China”. It’s ONLY CEOs and Congress.

    This is beyond an elite fever dream and may be the very Apex of Ivory Tower fever dreams, based on so much less than nothing, no one can even point to it. Not even Navy Intel moles like Bannon. Even HE can’t formulate a cogent argument for this to exist.

    Stop.

    #247297
    zerosum
    Participant

    I don’t know why I should care. It’s happening.
    I can’t steer the world, stop wars, or reliably forecast 10‑year trajectories in a way that changes what governments or systems do.
    ( Rising poverty and dysfunction in the world. Cuba, Iran Ukraine, Russia, US, Germany, UK, Japan)
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    #247299
    zerosum
    Participant

    hehehe … we are just helping … we are not at war
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/why-were-a-canadian-colonels-pivotal-actions-during-the-twelve-day-war-in-iran-kept-under-wraps/

    While the government has said that Canada has not participated in “offensive actions” against Iran, it was hesitant to disclose that approximately 200 troops were attached to allied operations in the Middle East.

    Carney and Defence Minister David McGuinty have also been criticized for not disclosing that a Canadian military hub in Kuwait was damaged in a retaliatory attack by Iran. The prime minister only acknowledged it after being confronted with media reports and satellite imagery.
    ————

    #247301
    John Day
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    I liked yesterday’s “Trump-Zapper” video. Here is the official refutation from People Mag.
    Viral Woman Accused of Pressing Remote Zapper to Wake Up Trump in Oval Office Says She Was Touching Her Pregnant Stomach https://people.com/viral-woman-accused-of-pressing-remote-zapper-to-wake-trump-in-oval-office-says-she-was-touching-pregnant-stomach-12058323

    #247302
    WES
    Participant

    Canada threatened to leave trade negotiations if the US imposes 50% tariffs on August 19th.

    Leave, and go where?

    Canadian dollar? Meh!

    Northern Democrats/Globalists, are following the advice from their South Democrats/RINOs/Globalists!

    Fighting to the Last Canadian!

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    #247304
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    WES:

    U.S. dollars = beads for the natives backed by nothing but a bully

    #247305
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    John Day, we all need a good laugh from time to time and the zapper is still doing that for me

    #247306
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    zerosum the benefit of awareness of the situation is it allows one to act with knowledge

    #247307
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    D:

    I have seen the elite fever dream in action when I was in china in the 90s to discover that is where the American appliances were being made. And Black and Decker shut down in Brockville to move to Mexico

    My opinion is that a country should be run like a loving family but western elite seem to have no concern for their country or their citizens

    #247308
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #247310
    tboc
    Participant

    Dr. John have you visited the site with solar information lately? Have been wondering if there might be a connection between solar activity and the recent atmospheric and seismic activity.

    #247311
    charles
    Participant
    #247314
    tboc
    Participant

    let me make an attempt to harsh the warmongers high
    Sykes-Picot – 1916
    Balfour Declaration – 1917
    more than a century of colonial meddling and Tilt Head thought Northern Africa was his in a few days.

    i’ll give the orange twat waffle and Cleese a clue- pull your heads out and take a look around.
    the eleves had to leave Middle Earth

    #247315
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump FUMING Over Iran’s Defiance as US Plans ‘Massive Move’

    #247316
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Pepe Escobar: ALL BETS ARE OFF: Iran Brings ALL Fronts in as US Doubles Down

    #247317
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Andrei Martyanov: it’s OVER! Iran Goes ALL IN — Wiping Out Every Threat

    #247318
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Larry Johnson: CENTCOM Commander Pushes for Renewed Strikes on Iran

    #247319
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    BREAKING: LARRY&PEPE EXPOSES BESSENT’S DUMBEST CLAIM YET Trump Says “Total Control” Iran Says NO

    #247320
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Pravin Sawhney:GULF DONE TRUSTING WASHINGTON-SAUDI BUILT A BACKUP ROAD, AMERICA OUT — NOW

    #247321
    John Day
    Participant

    @TBOC: Ben Davidson could not keep his wife and children, which I presume is because of his red-roosterpersonality, so he is no longer posting space weather news each day. It has been a couple of weeks gap now. He intends to get back to it… Jerkhood takes it’s toll. https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceWeatherNewsS0s

    #247322
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Alastair Crooke: Iran & Russia Give Up on Diplomacy & Go on the Offensive

    #247323
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    John Mearsheimer: U.S. Grand Strategy in a New World Order

    #247324
    zerosum
    Participant

    information from copilot.

    Latest official UAE message on frozen Iranian funds (13 June 2026):
    The UAE categorically denies releasing any frozen Iranian money — including the widely‑circulated claim of a $3 billion transfer.
    This is the most recent official position, and it is extremely explicit.

    🇦🇪 What the UAE said (verbatim policy position)
    1. “Entirely false and unfounded.”
    The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that reports alleging the UAE transferred or released frozen Iranian funds — including the $3 billion figure — are completely false.

    2. “No frozen Iranian funds have been released, transferred, or facilitated through the UAE.”
    The UAE repeats this line across multiple official statements and media outlets.

    3. UAE calls on media to stop circulating unverified claims.
    They emphasize accuracy and reliance on official sources.

    4. UAE rejects both the $3B claim and the broader $10–20B claims reported by Reuters.
    Even though Reuters reported that regional sources claimed the UAE agreed to unlock $10–20B (with a $3B first tranche), the UAE publicly denies all of it.

    🧭 Interpretation: What this means
    Officially: UAE says zero Iranian funds have been released.

    Unofficially: Reuters reports that regional sources claim the UAE agreed to release billions in exchange for Iran halting attacks — but the UAE denies this publicly.

    Diplomatic reality: The UAE is signaling that it wants de‑escalation but refuses to publicly acknowledge any financial concessions.

    This is classic Gulf crisis diplomacy:
    deny publicly, negotiate quietly.

    #247333
    zerosum
    Participant

    Copilot input. Will it affect your life? Is it really a coming squeeze?
    Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)

    How much of that oil is actually available?
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Rapidan Energy provide the critical detail:

    103 million barrels are NOT accessible due to cavern outages and construction failures.
    (GAO audit + Rapidan Energy analysis)

    Accessible oil = Total inventory – inaccessible barrels

    With accessible SPR at ~205M barrels, the U.S. has:

    ~11 days of crude coverage

    ~6–7 days of diesel/jet coverage

    Zero ability to sustain a long conflict‑driven supply shock

    No meaningful buffer if Middle East crude flows collapse

    No ability to stabilize global diesel markets with SPR alone

    This is why diesel “days‑of‑supply” keeps shrinking even though the SPR exists.

    Bottom line
    205 million barrels of accessible SPR crude = ~11 days of U.S. refinery crude demand, or ~6–7 days of diesel/jet output.

    This is the real emergency window.

    #247334
    zerosum
    Participant

    For the record, I did the whole cut and paste.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/why-one-conservative-mps-push-to-probe-covid-19-vaccine-injuries-is-prompting-concern/

    OTTAWA – Years after the COVID-19 pandemic, a small number of Canadians who rolled up their sleeves to get vaccinated are still suffering from adverse effects. And now, one Conservative MP is striking an informal inquiry to hear their stories.

    Though, concerns are arising that this forum won’t be able to provide the kind of accountability some are hoping for.

    Ontario MP Dean Allison has plans to chair four days of sworn testimony between Sept. 8 and 11 on Parliament Hill, focused on COVID-19 vaccine injuries.


    “The purpose of the Allison Inquiry is to provide a neutral forum for Canadians to share their personal experiences of injuries to themselves, or to others, from the Covid-19 vaccine(s),” reads the inquiry’s website.

    Allison Inquiry Home


    The Allison Inquiry:

    This initiative is not sanctioned by the federal government, nor does it have the resources or ability to compel witnesses the way an official probe would. The most Allison is offering, is at the conclusion, members of the inquiry “may, but are not required to, refer questions to Parliament.”

    CTV News asked Allison at his press conference on Parliament Hill Thursday about the inquiry, whether he was concerned about asking these individuals to open up again, without being able to ensure any accountability follows.

    Conservative member of Parliament Dean Allison speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 4, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
    “I think one of the biggest challenges right now is that people have not felt they have permission to actually talk about this,” he said. “So, we’ve realized by raising awareness, we’re hoping to put pressure on the government … we hope they’ll listen to what the stories and the frustrations and concerns are.”

    Allison, who describes himself as pro-vaccine choice, said he feels it is his job as an MP to listen to Canadians, help them access supports and help raise awareness about gaps in systems. He dismissed a suggestion that a process that only platforms one perspective on vaccines could delegitimize it and result in less widespread consideration of what comes out of it.

    “We’re going to talk to individuals, and those individuals are going to share their stories,” he said. “The government admits themselves that people have been vaccine injured.”

    More than 80 per cent of Canadians received at least one dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine, and as of January 2024, of the more than 58,000 adverse events were reported following these vaccinations. Less than 12,000 of the reports were considered serious, representing 0.011 per cent of the millions of doses administered.

    “These systems of active and passive surveillance are set up such that you would detect a needle in a haystack,” said infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch.

    He said knowing what medical professionals do now, both about the severity of the virus currently circulating and the nuance around risks for different demographics, “when you look at the vaccination currently, based on the best data we have, the vaccination still does a reasonable job in reducing the risk of hospitalization and death.”

    Carrie Sakamoto is one of 50 COVID-19 vaccine-injured Canadians slated to testify on Parliament Hill in September. (Carrie Sakamoto)
    ‘We need immediate accountability’: vaccine-injured Canadian
    One of the 50 vaccine-injured Canadians Allison’s inquiry is slated to hear from is Carrie Sakamoto. Like millions of Canadians, she got vaccinated for COVID-19. Her first dose was AstraZeneca, but come time for her second shot, it wasn’t available.

    The advice she received was that mixing different types of vaccines was safe, so she proceeded with her second dose – the Pfizer vaccine – in June 2021.

    That night, she began to get sick. As the week progressed, she said so did her symptoms.

    “I thought I was having a stroke, but it was it wasn’t,” she told CTV News. After already going to the hospital after initially feeling unwell, she said went back to the emergency room.

    “They assessed me, and they said that it was Bell’s palsy.”

    Sakamoto then spent 17 days in hospital.

    “That’s when my specialists that were taking care of me … came to me and told me that this was a Pfizer vaccine injury, and that they were reporting it to Ottawa, and that there was a vaccine program in place that I could apply for.”

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the media about the COVID-19 pandemic during a news conference outside Rideau cottage in Ottawa, Friday, March 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
    During the pandemic, the Trudeau government set up a Vaccine Injury Support Program, which as of 2025, had approved 252 claims and paid out more than $21 million in compensation.

    It was through this third-party administered process that Sakamoto received $62,000, but she and other claimants have said the process was mismanaged and mired in red tape.

    After an extensive Global News investigation and a federal audit, the Public Health Agency of Canada overhauled the program – rebranding it as the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program – and as the agency now in charge of it, is still sorting through a backlog of claims.

    “I’m still in appeals,” Sakamoto said. “They want more documents, but it’s stuff they already have.”

    One doctor, who long pushed for Canada to join other G7 countries in enacting a vaccine injury compensation process, said a system Canadians can have confidence in is key.

    “I would call it part of our social contract,” said Bruyère Health Research Institute Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Kumanan Wilson. “We’re expecting people to participate in a public good, and our part of the bargain is if something were to happen to them, even potentially happen to them due to the vaccine, we need to provide support for them.”

    Chief Science Advisor Mona Nemer during a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
    Chief science advisor supports ‘evidence-based’ reflection
    Canada hasn’t conducted any formal review of how COVID-19 was handled nationally.

    This country’s chief science advisor is among many who think there’s merit in the federal government reflecting on its pandemic response, in an evidence-informed way, to reassure Canadians and improve future public health responses.

    “Overall, Canada’s response compared favourably with that of several peer countries, particularly given the complexity and length of the pandemic, and the fact that responsibility for the health response spans multiple levels of government,” said Dr. Mona Nemer in a statement to CTV News.

    “At the same time, no response to a crisis of this magnitude is perfect, and there is value in examining what worked and where we could have done better.”

    Nemer added that there’s also learning that can done by considering the lived experience of Canadians.

    “A constructive, evidence-informed reflection could help strengthen our preparedness, not only for future pandemics and health emergencies, but also for the more frequent viral outbreaks we are likely to face in the foreseeable future,” she said.

    A person draws out Moderna vaccine at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday Jan. 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
    ‘If you’re going to do an inquiry, you have to do it fairly’
    Allison – who on Thursday was joined on stage by a physician that advocated for patients during the pandemic to take the livestock drug Ivermectin – isn’t planning to include testimony from doctors or experts who believe in the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

    “No, we basically want to hear from constituents across the country,” he said.

    This, and the fact Allison, as an actively elected politician is intending to act as the chairperson, has prompted critics to question the intent.

    “Anybody who believes they’ve been affected by taking a vaccine deserves to be heard and deserves compassion and support,” said Liberal MP and chief government whip Mark Gerretsen. “The problems with what Mr. Allison is putting forward is that it’s based on the premise of an official inquiry, but it’s not.”

    “There’s no independent commissioner gathering evidence, and … it’s really billed as being nonpartisan, but all of his preamble to setting the stage for this is very partisan, where he talks about the (Freedom) Convoy and he talks about vaccine mandates, and Canadians being silenced,” he continued.

    Liberal MP Mark Gerretsen makes his way to a Liberal party caucus meeting in West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
    “I think that he’s setting the stage, through his own words, to set this up to be a political argument, instead of an argument that could genuinely have meaningful impact on people’s lives.”

    Sakamoto said she isn’t anti-vaccine, having received many prior to the pandemic, but after speaking out about her personal experience with the COVID-19 vaccination process, she felt targeted.

    “I was left caught in the middle, dismissed by authorities who asked me to take the shot, and then ridiculed by the people who used my physical suffering as a political weapon,” she said.

    Asked if she’s concerned this inquiry could lead to further politicization, and not result in the “accountability and reform” she’s calling for, Sakamoto said no.

    “I think that anywhere that gives us a space to speak and to come together and support each other and have it put on record, I think, is important.”

    Though, as Bogoch noted, to have a fair inquiry where the results can be meaningfully considered, it requires a range of perspectives.

    “Is the goal to look at what are the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccines? And if so, you probably want to hear from people who have experienced some of the benefits, hear from people who have experienced some of the harms, hear from people who are vaccine experts,” he said.

    “Like anything else, if the results are written before the study’s even done, you have to ask yourself what good is the study in the first place?”

    “If you’re going to do an inquiry, you have to do it fairly,” he added.

    Conservative member of Parliament Dean Allison speaks during a press conference on Aug. 13, 2026. (CTV NEWS)
    MPs from all political parties have been invited to sit in, but so far, the inquiry only has the support of Conservatives. Allison said that includes Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose office didn’t return a request for comment on whether Poilievre intends to attend any of the hearings.

    Gerretsen said that from his perspective, Liberal MPs are encouraged to meet with constituents.

    “I certainly would not have an issue with that,” he said, noting that as whip, he doesn’t involve himself in telling his colleagues who to, and not to, meet with on Parliament Hill.

    With files from CTV National News producer Rachel Hanes

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