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Keep Talking, Ask Why, Push Care and Accountability

Day 4 · 8:12:36 · Dean Allison

  • 💬 Next steps: more public—not only private—discussion, defending fair-minded MPs, and never stopping expert-urged questions.
  • 🩺 Advocate for the sick as for cancer or diabetes: better access, treatment resources, and transparent adverse-event surveillance.
  • 🔍 Canadians deserve evolving evidence, conflict-of-interest safeguards, and answers on funding, decisions, and investigation of harms.

Forward agenda of public speech, legislative courage, care resources, and relentless questions.

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Transcript

Dean Allison · 8:12:36

So where do we go from here? First of all, I think we've got to keep talking. We have shattered the ceiling of silence, and so we need to encourage more— not private— hey, well, let's do private conversations. We got to encourage more public discussion, right? We, we can't shy away from that. We can't, we can't back that. And you know, when our colleagues are mocked online or they're dismissed or unfairly characterized, I expect everybody to run to their defense and to support them. When an MP does something good, I expect people to say thank you online, whatever, because sometimes it takes a little bit of, a little bit And I don't even say guts. When people don't understand, sometimes it's hard to know how to interact. When you think about going to a funeral of a loved one that's passed and you don't know what to say and you don't know if you should be there and you don't know if they'll accept you for being there, that's kind of like what this is for people that don't understand the community. So when people reach out, we need to encourage them.

Dean Allison · 8:13:36

We need to thank them. It also means asking questions. We can't stop asking questions. That was said by almost every expert witness. We have got to keep asking questions. We've got to ask why. We've got to ask how. We've got to figure out where the evidence is and we've got to keep going that. So, and we also need to encourage legislators to step up. Right. And so I think we need to continue to, you know, to, to advocate on behalf of Canadians who are sick and injured and vulnerable. Right. And if we can do that for every other category, cancer, dementia, diabetes, We sure as heck can do that for those that are vaccine injured, right? I think a lot of it's just people are ignorant. I don't mean ignorant, rude. I mean ignorant. They just don't understand what's happened, you know? And if you spend any time talking to, as I have over the years, not, not this many at this, at this amount of time, but you would understand what it is. I also believe that it shouldn't be politically inconvenient to people, right? So We need to, we need to challenge governments to be more accountable.

Dean Allison · 8:14:37

We need to, we need to keep pushing for better access to care. We need to push for resources. Dr. McCullough, other doctors said it today. We got to encourage more resources for that dialogue and treatment. We need transparent surveillance and reporting of adverse events. Man, transparency and accountability are fundamental. There's no reason why citizenry cannot ask that of government regularly, consistently, all the time. And I think that, you know, every Canadian has the right to know what's, what's the evidence, what's, what's the limitations of the, of the evidence, what, what's changed as new evidence has emerged. Dr. McCullough talked about today of studies that he did years ago, or what he knew years ago, and new evidence has come out to support that. And because we're talking about 2019 COVID-19 or 2020 evidence. That's not acceptable. And that's where we need to come in in terms of education and letting people know where they're at. So I don't think, you know, people should ever think that questions are dangerous.

Dean Allison · 8:15:38

I think they should just realize that it's, you know, part of this democratic process that we're all a part of. We should be able to ask difficult questions to help Canada. How is it funded? We heard some conversations today that big pharma's involved. How are decisions made? What safeguards exist against conflicts of interest? How do adverse events are investigated? Whether Canadians have sufficient access to the underlying evidence to make regulatory decisions? These are all questions that were raised during this inquiry.