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Counsel Frames Vaccine Injury as a Forbidden Topic in Canada

Day 2 · 0:05:10 · Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison

  • 🤐 Shawn Buckley argues doctors, journalists, and MPs fear speaking about vaccine injury for fear of being labeled anti-vaxxers.
  • 💔 He links yesterday’s testimony to moral injury: isolation, gaslighting, family alienation, and professional exclusion.
  • 🌍 Buckley urges platforms worldwide to restream the inquiry so vaccine-injured voices are heard under oath.

Inquiry counsel describes systemic silence around vaccine injury.

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Transcript

Shawn Buckley · 0:05:10

Thank you, Chairperson, uh, Dean Allison the, I'm very honored to be here today. Yesterday was an amazing experience for everyone who participated, and there were some unexpected things. I was in an Uber coming here today, and we were listening to a song called The Blessing, which has become a theme for these proceedings. And I was thinking about how amazing it is that in September of 2026 in Canada, we are afraid to speak about vaccine injury. I spoke yesterday about how it's kind of Canada's dirty little secret. We can't talk about it and we're afraid to be labeled as anti-vaxxers. I don't know what a vaxxer is, but I do know that I've been taught that the last thing you want to be called in Canada is an anti-vaxxer, it is complete derision, and it obligates the rest of society to alienate you and to silence you and remove your voice completely.

Shawn Buckley · 0:06:22

And many of our witnesses who ironically are not anti-vaxxers, they took the vaccine and were injured, but they're labeled that and they're afraid of being labeled that. And so, you know, in 2026, medical doctors are afraid. And when you think about that, these are highly trained professionals that have a lot of power in our society. I mean, they make life and death decisions every day. They're highly respected. They have rights and privileges that other members of society don't have. They're really the cream of the crop. It's so difficult to get into medical school. They have to work so hard. The commitment is absolutely amazing. And yet this privileged class is afraid. To speak against vaccines, which if you're acknowledging vaccine injuries, speaks against vaccines. And I just want you to think about that as this privileged class is afraid. It's not just the rest of us.

Shawn Buckley · 0:07:22

This is one of the most highly esteemed privileged classes in Canada, and they're afraid. And when I was speaking about journalists, I mean, journalists, especially for the mainstream media, the power that they wield. They have such a large audience. They have a responsibility to the public to report fairly, to report both sides, to actually question things that we accept when there's evidence to suggest that we should start questioning. And these people compete for these jobs. I mean, You're winning a lottery. You've demonstrated ability. You've just demonstrated competence. You've worked in the lower level tiers of media for years and years before you get that privileged position of being a journalist in the mainstream media. And yet they are afraid.

Shawn Buckley · 0:08:22

This privileged class of journalists that surely, you know, inside that they want to report accurately, that they want to report fairly, that they want to be free to question things. That's their job. And yet they're afraid on this issue of speaking about vaccine injury. And then we have our Members of Parliament. And before this inquiry became a possibility, my wife Theresa and I were meeting at the request of MP Dean Allison with other MPs. Because he had asked the question, if I do this, if I agree to hold an inquiry, will I be the only MP at the table? I think there's 342 MPs. Will I be the only one at the table? And so we were meeting with ones that we thought would be philosophically inclined to support something like this.

Shawn Buckley · 0:09:25

And what we came away from is, is that MPs do not feel that it's politically viable for them to sit at this table. Now, because this is trending so much worldwide, that may change. We may see some MPs show up as these proceedings go on that we didn't anticipate because of the immense public interest. But who is more powerful in Canada than Members of Parliament? The power they wield is just incredible. I mean, they pass laws literally over life and death. They make decisions that affect us every area of our life. The power that they wield, the power that's concentrated in the House of Commons is amazing. And yet this absolute powerful class is afraid. They're afraid to listen to vaccine-injured persons, to speak about vaccine injury, you know, publicly, because it's a forbidden topic.

Shawn Buckley · 0:10:30

And so I think it's important for us to frame how powerful these groups are that are forbidden from speaking. And it begs the question, how can it be in Canada in 2026 that there is a topic that is so forbidden that the most powerful classes in Canada cannot tread there? And I can ask rhetorically because there are examples in history where certain topics could not be discussed against the official narrative without consequences. And again, it's a rhetorical question. Can anyone show me an example where that ended well regardless of the topic? Because there have been topics in other countries throughout history that we're forbidden to speak against without consequence. And it never ends well. And how is it going to end well here? We're already a divided nation. Michael McNair took the stand yesterday.

Shawn Buckley · 0:11:32

And if you haven't watched him, and we probably haven't posted it online yet, but it'll get there. You have to watch it. Because it's not even the words that Michael spoke. It was his demeanor. It was the clear emotion. It was the clear struggle that he was experiencing as he was on the stand, as he was testifying under oath, sharing his story. He showed us what moral distress is, what moral injury is. Some of these witnesses may not use those terms, but when they talk about the most difficult, the difficult part of their journey being not heard, being gaslit by the medical community, being basically disenfranchised as citizens, even within their own families, they're really describing moral injury. Because the reality is, is we're meant to be part of a tribe.

Shawn Buckley · 0:12:35

We're meant to be part of a family unit. We're meant to be part of social circles. We're meant to be part of professional circles. But if you become vaccine injured, even though you're not an anti-vaxxer, whatever that is, because you're taking vaccines, you just happen to be injured. But because we can't even have the discussion, you are excluded automatically in many cases from family members. And there's probably not a witness that we're calling that has not had family alienation because of their journey. You are alienated professionally. You are alienated from your social circles. You are often deplatformed on social media channels, as our first witness has been, all because you were injured. You become disenfranchised. And so many of these people will be speaking about their physical injuries, but I think that it's important for us to understand that there has been a moral injury, there has been a moral injustice, and it's why this inquiry and listening to these voices are so important.

Shawn Buckley · 0:13:51

And so I, you know, I echo what Mr. Allison has said, uh, thanks to the media, the alternative media, for getting this out Because these telling the stories matters because we're listening to the stories. And if the mainstream media still feels forbidden from doing so, then we still need to get the word out. And so we actually call on every, anyone who's got any type of platform anywhere in the world, go to Allison Inquiry LIVE and restream us. Let's make this a worldwide phenomenon because nowhere else in the world are vaccine-injured persons being called to testify in a formal setting under oath, and we need to get the word out.

Dean Allison · 0:14:37

And so, um, yeah, I also just want to add one more thing in the context of what Sean has just mentioned. I've had a number of colleagues here yesterday and today. I want to thank Mr. Dawson, who early on when I talked to him, what I said, he was in, and he was in for 3 days, and He's here. He's here every day. He's one guy I count on. I want to thank MP Mahal for also coming as well, who indicated that was the case. So to my colleagues, I appreciate it very much. There'll be more that come over the next couple of days. As I said, Mike was here. We had a few others yesterday in the context of Sean's remarks. So thanks.