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Volunteer Appeal: Break the Silence on Vaccine Injury

Day 1 · 4:35:35 · Teresa Buckley · Dean Allison

  • 💔 Teresa Buckley describes five years of decline, gaslighting, family wounds, and MAiD pressure after injury.
  • 📢 She says the inquiry lets injured Canadians speak to MPs, often for the first time, toward care and trust.
  • 🗳️ She urges non-partisan contact of MPs, poster distribution, and courage from injured people and public servants.

Organizer testimony and call for MPs and the public to listen and act.

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Transcript

Teresa Buckley · 4:35:35

There is urgent The cost cannot be measured only in terms of medical ailments. This injury robs you of the life you once dreamed of. It tears your body apart, cell by cell. And it does not stop with the injured. Our spouses, our children, our parents, our families, our loved ones, they carry these wounds alongside us. Without acknowledgement, there's no pathway to care. 5 Years, half a decade. We've waited while our health declined. The systems meant to protect us looked away.

Teresa Buckley · 4:36:36

For many like myself, we want to share our stories while we still have the health and the strength to do so. Many are becoming less able to participate in their, in advocacy efforts. We have encountered profound systemic gaps between adverse event reporting, ongoing safety surveillance, and support. This is vital to provide informed decision-making and recovery. Many have experienced fragmented care, financial hardship, dismissal, medical gaslighting, and even ridicule. And I can attest to this personally. I've experienced it all. And this isn't just about being vaccine injured. It's about what happens after you experience an adverse event, and Canadians need to be aware. The Vaccine Impact Assistance Program, formerly known as VISS, was intended to serve as a safeguard for Canadians harmed following vaccination.

Teresa Buckley · 4:37:45

Instead, Canadians including my myself have found ourselves trapped in a bureaucratic system that has failed. Speak openly about MAiD because it's the only healthcare they're offered, and it's being pushed on many. I've held these conversations. I've encouraged injured to just hold on. We are the quiet truth no one wants to say out loud. We are the voices too often pushed into the side Island.

Teresa Buckley · 4:38:45

And inside, the fight never stops. The struggle to fight for care within a broken medical system, the exhaustion that's settled over our family. Throughout the past, past 5 years, hope has remained. I continue to pray for our injured community in Canada and around the world. We cannot give way to despair. This suppressed speech erodes the very fabric of a democratic society, and it does not restore public trust. The Allison Inquiry LIVE will provide injured Canadians with the opportunity to share their stories, to have our voices heard by Members of Parliament, and for many, this will be the first time. Our hope is that those voices will lead to meaningful change, better diagnostics, research, treatment, support, and restored trust in our government agencies. Understanding that living with a vaccine injury is one of the most inhumane experiences imaginable.

Teresa Buckley · 4:39:48

Many of us are trapped inside bodies we no longer recognize. You cannot treat what you refuse to acknowledge. The time is now. Because every day without action has a human cost. Every delay means more suffering. Every unanswered question means another Canadian is left behind. And remember that behind every statistic is a human being, a mother, a father, a child, a spouse, spouse, family whose lives have been forever changed. And it could have been you. We cannot recover the years we've lost, but together we can help ensure that no one else loses theirs. And behind every story is a Canadian who deserves dignity, compassion, and care.

Teresa Buckley · 4:40:50

But it starts with listening. Thank you. Thank you, Michelle. I think the country needs to take a little breath now. My name is Teresa Buckley, and I'm a volunteer with the Allison Inquiry LIVE. As MP Dean Allison mentioned, we want to encourage all Canadians and all COVID-19 vaccine-injured persons across the country country to contact their Members of Parliament and ask for their presence at the Allison Inquiry LIVE on September 8 9 10 and 11.

Teresa Buckley · 4:41:57

We want elected representatives to listen to the stories and to their constituents who are suffering. As we spoke of last month, the silence is now broken. There comes a time where we're all faced with an inflection point in our lives, and we have to decide what type of people we want to be. We want all of the Members of Parliament to understand that this is actually a point for them. This is an inflection point in their humanity. Are they prepared to listen? All we want is for them to listen to stories such as Michelle's. We've, we've established on our website site, very simple methods of contacting your Members of Parliament.

Teresa Buckley · 4:43:06

Please go to Allison Inquiry LIVE and you'll be able to look at different ways where you can phone, you can email, you can write letters, you can visit them in person. This is a non-partisan event. This is not political. The injuries suffering by probably hundreds of thousands of Canadians is not a political event. This is life. Go to our website as well and print out our posters, our cards. We want these distributed across from across the country, put them in the grocery store, put them in your shopping malls, and give them to your doctors. They need to understand that the time for silence is over. If you're a Canadian that's not sure if you can do this, if you cannot— not sure if you can contact your MP, we would just encourage you to have courage If you're a vaccine-injured Canadian and if you're unsure whether or not to speak with your MP, whether or not he's going to listen, we ask you to have courage.

Teresa Buckley · 4:44:34

If you're a Member of Parliament or a person from the public sector and if you're vaccine-injured, if you're vaccine injured, we want to hear your story. If you've lost people that have died as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine, we want to hear your story. Michelle traveled over 4,000 kilometers yesterday by herself on a plane without aid.

Dean Allison · 4:45:18

Okay, welcome back to this afternoon. We've, uh, we're going to continue along, and, uh, we are so privileged to be able to hear from some of our injured people. And I'm going to just turn it over to Sean as, uh, he sets up, uh, what we're going to look at next.