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Photos, Father’s Vow, and Civil Lawsuit

Day 4 · 0:31:38 · Glen Motz · Dan Hartman

  • 📷 Team and family photos show Sean in rep hockey and hugging a new chihuahua he adored.
  • ⚔️ Hartman says Sean was murdered and he will fight until the truth is admitted so no parent suffers the same unhealable loss.
  • ⚖️ He sued Health Canada and Pfizer; courts ruled Health Canada owes no duty of care to individuals, only the general public.

Personal memorial slides give way to litigation that shields the regulator from individual accountability.

← Autopsy: Cause of Death Unascertained | Q&A: What Would Justice Look Like for Sean? →

Transcript

Glen Motz · 0:31:38

That I picked. So tell us about this photo. This is your son Sean Hartman.

Dan Hartman · 0:31:44

That's my boy. Um, that's when he switched teams to go play rep hockey, which is a higher level than house league, and he went to play for Allison for 2 years, and he enjoyed it, but he really, really missed his friends. And so he went back to Beaton to play the rest of his career.

Glen Motz · 0:32:06

Right, so this is like the team, they take photos of all the players. What year would he have been? What, 15, 14, 15? Yeah. Okay, and so he's actually so good that he gets to go play in another league.

Speaker G · 0:32:22

Higher division, higher hockey.

Glen Motz · 0:32:24

Right, but he's doing that for a couple of years, he's missing his friends back home, so he decides to kind of take a tier down. So that he can play with his friends. Mhm. Okay, can we see the next photo? Tell us about this photo.

Dan Hartman · 0:32:39

We just got a chihuahua, and Sean was a big animal lover, and my fiancée was talking to him in this picture, and it was taken without his knowledge, and it turned out to be a really great picture. And he loved animals so much, so He was hugging our little girl and just so happy to be with another dog. He had dogs of his own at home, but when he came to visit me on my weekends now, he had another dog to play with.

Glen Motz · 0:33:09

And then, um, you feel some responsibility towards Sean over what happened, and you've been doing some things about that. Can you share with us why you feel a responsibility even to be here and sharing Sean's story?

Dan Hartman · 0:33:27

Because Sean can't speak for himself, and I love that boy more than anything in this life. He was everything to me, and I will go down— I will die for Sean. I will do whatever it takes to get the truth out about him so people don't have to suffer the same pain I am. I don't want any parent to go through this because it's unhealable. My son wasn't— he didn't have a disease. It wasn't a car accident. It wasn't suicide. My son was murdered. And I believe that in my heart 100%. So I will do everything in my power to let people know about Shawn and to fight for him because he's not here to fight for himself. And that's what a dad should do.

Glen Motz · 0:34:14

And one of the things that you've done is you've started a lawsuit including against Health Canada and Pfizer to try and get some civil responsibility.

Speaker F · 0:34:29

Yes.

Glen Motz · 0:34:30

For what happened. And I'll lead you a little bit through this because I want the— I want you to be questioned by others. But it's basically the lower court concerning Health Canada has said you can't go after Health Canada, you can't sue Health Canada. Because— and listen carefully, everyone— Health Canada does not owe individuals a duty of care when they're approving vaccines. Their duty of care is to the general public. And then you basically appealed that decision to the Ontario Court of Appeal. The decision is Hartman versus Canada Attorney General. It's found at 2026 ONCA 270, and I've read that decision and I know you've read the decision, but just because I'm— we're running short, I'm going to speed us through this. So basically, the Ontario Court of Appeal agrees that Health Canada does not owe individuals like Sean Hartman any duty of care, and therefore you can't even name them as a party in a lawsuit.

Glen Motz · 0:35:36

So the interesting thing I find about that Mr. Hartman, is that most— it's human nature that if there's a consequence to you being negligent, if there's a consequence to hurting other people, like a personal consequence, then we kind of watch what we're doing, right?

Speaker F · 0:35:52

Yeah.

Glen Motz · 0:35:53

If, you know, there was no fines for speeding, maybe some of us might speed more, like, just to use an example. So here we have a regulatory body that people believe is there to protect them. Well, if they act negligently, if they act with bias or do something that's awful, there's no recourse so that there's no incentive for them to act with any responsibility. So the law applies to you and I. We can't hurt anyone. We hurt a single person, we find out really quickly we can't do that. Yeah, but it doesn't seem to apply otherwise. Mr. Motsz, thank you, and thank you very much for your testimony. And I, um, I'm sorry for your loss.

Speaker G · 0:36:43

Thank you.