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National Citizens Archive and Bite-Sized Reports

Day 3 · 3:34:54 · Dean Allison · Ken Drysdale

  • 📚 Thousands of hours of video, transcripts and three reports (including a 5,280-page main report and ~1,000-page Regina supplement) are now searchable at nationalcitizensarchive.ca.
  • 🔍 The archive offers keyword search, 12 starter categories and 6,000+ terms so citizens and researchers can jump straight to clips and pages.
  • 📑 The main report's 25-page TOC splits discussion from 300+ recommendations by topic so users need not read thousands of pages linearly.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 3:34:54

So where do people find the National Citizens Inquiry videos and the like? Just because it is another resource that ties very well into what this inquiry is doing.

Ken Drysdale · 3:35:07

Well, you're absolutely right. You know, we, we prepared thousands of hours of video. Every witness was, was videotaped. We prepared transcripts, thousands and thousands of pages of transcripts, and we prepared these incredible reports. We prepared 3 reports concerning COVID The first one was in September of 2023, and it was in response to, um, the government deciding they were going to start vaccinating children as old as 6— young as 6 months old. The second report was issued on November 28th, 2023, 5,280 pages. And then the third report, the Regina Supplemental Report, was just under 1,000 pages. So as an engineer, it wouldn't bother me to sit down and say, I'm going to read a 5,000-page book. But I discovered that most Canadians don't do that. So we had this incredible ginormous library of information. And so what we just finished doing is we created what we've called the nationalcitizensarchive.ca.

Ken Drysdale · 3:36:13

And we've taken all of that, the video, the transcripts, the exhibits, the, the, uh, the entire reports, and we've put it into a system that is completely searchable, and, and it's searchable and friendly enough for a small child to use all the way up to a, a serious academic researcher to use. So you can go in there and it's, it's split up into different sections, and you can search by any keyword you want. And it'll go through, it'll tell you what video it was on, where it was. Here, click on this button, here's the video. You can search the transcripts, and it's all in one spot. And you know, we even thought of this. Let's say you go in there and you're intimidated by this whole thing. What will I search for? Believe it or not, we've helped you with that too. You can push a button and it'll give you 12 categories of different areas that you might want to search under, and it gives you over 6,000 terms.

Ken Drysdale · 3:37:15

So if you were interested in vaccine injuries, there's a category for that. You push the button and then it gives you several hundred different keywords you can just pick from, push the button, and it searches that entire archive for you— transcripts, videos, reports— and it'll take you right down to where that piece is. So this is a, an incredible research tool, not just for people in universities or lawyers or something, but ordinary citizens can get in there, and if they're curious about something, anything, any type of a term, they can put it in this thing and it will draw out all of that information. So it allows people other than perhaps elderly engineers an opportunity to actually have a tool they can use to explore this incredible repository of information.

Dean Allison · 3:38:08

Now, can I, can I ask you about how the report's organized too? Because when you hear like 6,000 pages and that, I'm sorry, I'm a lawyer and I'm not going to read that. But it was actually everything was made into bite-sized pieces on topics. So can you just share about that?

Ken Drysdale · 3:38:25

Absolutely. So we'll talk about the main report, which was over 5,000 pages. But what we did was, of course, this was before we started thinking about creating an archive, a searchable archive. But what we did was a table of contents of that report is like 25 pages long. And if you're dealing with the, the electronic version of it, it's all in categories. For instance, um, civil law, freedom of speech, media, vaccines, medical, It was all split up into a whole bunch of different chapters, and that was even broken down again. So you can just simply go to the table of contents if you're using the PDF and you can find the topic you want and push the button and it'll take you to the section. And we did— we, we, we in that kind of a format, we tried to make it as usable as possible. So we, we split out the discussion from the recommendations, and that particular report made over 300 recommendations across pretty much every kind of topic area you can think of.

Ken Drysdale · 3:39:30

So even when we created the report and the book, we made it interactive so that it would allow folks to be able to explore. But the, the National Citizens Archive is the next step. It's an order of magnitude step beyond that.

Dean Allison · 3:39:45

So we're going to actually hand out paper copies of that report. You've brought them to be handed out to the MPs that are present. But I will advise everyone in the audience and those watching that eventually, bearing in mind that this is— we're volunteers that are assisting Chairperson Allison to put this on, eventually there'll be hopefully witness pages with the video of their testimony. And we've entered as an exhibit the full NCI report and transcripts in electronic format. But Mr. Drysdale has brought for the MPs that are present today. This isn't the whole report, but it's part of it. But I want to pull up the slide because I had a question for you.