Compensation Program Failures¶

VISP and VIAP denials, lost files, high administrative overhead, opaque medical boards, delayed payouts, and the gulf between approved claims and real need.

40 sections cover this topic directly.

Day 1¶

1:25:14 Q&A: What Data Should Canada Collect for Injury Compensation? — Ron Johnson 🇨🇦 An MP notes Canada’s Vaccine Injury Support Program has paid over $21 million on 250-plus approved claims.
3:56:01 Why Injured Canadians’ Stories Matter — Dean Allison · Teresa Buckley 📋 Allison cites 58,000-plus adverse reports, 3,000-plus admissible VISP claims, and only about 250 compensated.
5:33:22 Closed Doors to VIAP and Veterans Affairs — Catherine Christensen · Shawn Buckley 🚪 Members often learned of the no-fault program too late; VAC denies or recodes mandated-shot injuries as non-service.
6:20:39 VISP File Lost Twice After Four Years of Waiting — Dean Allison · Kevin Street · Shawn Buckley 📝 Street applied to the Vaccine Injury Support Program twice; the first file was lost and he remains six to twelve months from a decision.

Day 2¶

0:46:43 CANRISE Data: VISP Rejection Rates and Under-Reporting — Dean Allison · Dr. Michelle Worton · Shawn Buckley · Vienna Demeduk 📊 Among members, 46% could not apply because doctors refused to sign forms; ~7% of applicants are approved.
1:34:26 Q&A: Did Doctors Link Hitchcock’s Injury to the Vaccine? — Dean Allison · Cameron Hitchcock · Shawn Buckley 📚 A friend found peer-reviewed reports of post-vaccine nephrotic syndrome and EU investigations that Hitchcock shared with staff.
1:35:39 Q&A: How Brutal Was the VISP Compensation Process? — Shawn Buckley · Cameron Hitchcock · Dean Allison 📄 Caseworkers reversed eligibility mid-leave, delayed payments a month, and left him without EI or VISP income while training for home dialysis.
1:38:07 Q&A: How Does a Full-Time Worker Survive Without Income? — Dean Allison · Cameron Hitchcock · Shawn Buckley 🚗 Balancing home hemodialysis, a two-hour daily commute and work left him dangerously sleep-deprived until he finally took leave.
2:28:12 Q&A: Does Government Support the Spirit of the Vaccine-Injured? — Shawn Buckley · Michael Oesch 📉 Oesch sees almost no encouragement; VISP denial rates exceeded ordinary insurance and felt designed to reject claims.
2:49:55 Q&A: Do Doctors Support Grewal’s Vaccine-Injury Claim? — Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison · Jasmeet Grewal · Michael Oesch 📝 Clinicians would only call the link a “strong possibility” based on timeline; none would confirm or deny.
2:51:16 Q&A: What Was Grewal’s Experience Inside the Compensation Program? — Shawn Buckley · Jasmeet Grewal ⌛ The process was endless waiting and unanswered follow-ups; the denial letter felt unbelievable.
2:52:41 Q&A: How Burdensome Was Assembling 80–100 Pages of Records? — Dean Allison · Jasmeet Grewal · Michael Oesch · Shawn Buckley 📑 The package contained notes from every physician during his entire six-month admission plus all failed treatments.
2:55:23 Kelly Shorkey Sworn: Multiple Agencies Confirm Injury, VISP Does Not — Shawn Buckley · Kelly Shorkey ⚖️ Shorkey is sworn in as counsel notes BC Medical Health Officer, Canada Life, CPP and WorkSafe BC all accept her vaccine injury.
3:42:08 Daniel Freiheit Sworn: ATIP Exposes VISP Contract Redactions — Shawn Buckley · Jasmeet Grewal · Daniel Freiheit ⚖️ Ontario corporate lawyer Freiheit affirms he will tell the truth and describes years helping vaccine-injured clients with VISP claims.
3:46:58 Closed Budget and Litigation-Management Appeal Design — Jasmeet Grewal · Shawn Buckley 🔒 Fixed contribution envelope plus high admin share created an inherent incentive to delay or deny payouts.
3:52:18 Q&A: What Is It Like Helping Clients Navigate VISP? — Jasmeet Grewal · Dean Allison · Daniel Freiheit · Shawn Buckley 📁 Demanding records direct from overwhelmed providers instead of sworn affidavits causes major delays; court standards should suffice.
3:56:14 Q&A: What Reforms Would Improve the New Program? — Dean Allison · Daniel Freiheit · Jasmeet Grewal · Shawn Buckley 📎 Simplify chain-of-custody so patients can submit records by affidavit, easing burdens on doctors and hospitals.
4:20:55 Johnson: Canada’s Thin Edge on Injury Compensation — Jason Lavigne · Ron Johnson 💸 Johnson says Canada is only slightly ahead of the U.S. on compensating the injection-injured because America has done virtually nothing.
4:57:54 U.S. CICP Rejection Rates and Canada’s Secret VISP Design — Dr. Jessica Rose 🇺🇸 HHS CICP took 13,333 COVID claims—27× its first decade—yet completed few reviews and rejected over 97% per REACT19.
5:03:59 VISP Numbers, Appeals and PHAC’s Per-Dose Framing Trick — Dr. Jessica Rose 📊 Public VISP figures show 3,557 claims received (an underestimate) and only 252 approved (~7%); of 551 appeals, ~30% assessed and ~2% approved.
5:56:29 Silenced Grief and a Collapsed VISP Claim — Shawn Buckley · James Freeland · Dean Allison 🗣️ He says this is the most he has ever been able to speak about the loss, having been unable to talk to friends or family.
7:46:52 Q&A: Vaccine-Injury Claim, CPP Cutoff, and Untested Crystals — Shawn Buckley · Jannine Duffy · Jennifer Britain · Charles Hoffe · Dean Allison 📁 Jannine filed a vaccine-injury claim in August 2022; by July it still sat with 111 pages and no timeline.

Day 3¶

1:01:20 Q&A: Why Share Christy’s Story on the Record — Dean Allison 📝 Christy’s physicians linked intracranial hemorrhage to mRNA risk in lupus patients, yet the claims administrator ruled the death inconclusive after years of delay.
1:15:49 Q&A: Family Impact and Vaccine Injury Support Program Ordeal — Carol Messenger · Dean Allison 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Husband, four adult children and grandchildren offered remote support after the family relocated; some friends quietly doubted the vaccine link.
1:42:04 Quebec Vaccine-Injury Compensation: Three-Year Silence — Carole Avoine 📝 A doctor later confirmed vaccine causality to Bell’s palsy after she self-reported on AstraZeneca’s site.
2:29:54 Q&A: Scott’s Reaction to the Vaccine Injury Support Payout — Blaine Calkins · Carole Avoine · Dean Allison 😤 VISP navigation was frustration-filled and poorly handled, matching most injured people’s stigma.
3:12:09 Q&A: Experience with the Vaccine Injury Support Program — Dean Allison · Myriam Bohémier 📝 Dawood confirms he has applied to the federal vaccine injury program.
3:12:21 VISP Rejection, Father's Files and ODSP Whiplash — Dean Allison · Dawood Al-Janaby · Ken Drysdale 📄 Dawood says VISP rejected his claim as fibromyalgia after a year-long process and mixed up his father's medical documents, including a cardiologist review he never had.
4:29:23 Allison: Compassion, VISP Failures and Global Inquiries — Dean Allison 💙 Allison affirms dignity for COVID dead, frontline workers and the vaccine-injured; first response must be listening, not dismissal.
6:33:30 Denomme: VISP Refusal Letter Named the Wrong Vaccine — Shawn Buckley · Crystal Denomme · Julie Woods 📄 First refusal claimed her injury was from a second Moderna shot she never received; she had two Pfizers.
6:35:08 Denomme: Appeal Denied; Records Never Collected, Panel Conflict — Crystal Denomme · Shawn Buckley · Mark Chapman ❌ Board acknowledged temporal link and CRPS diagnosis yet still refused, inventing bilateral claims and non-existent imaging.
7:37:18 Q&A: What Has the Vaccine Injury Support Program Actually Delivered? — Dean Allison · Noah Barclay · Drew Taylor · Shawn Buckley ⌛ Acceptance took a year and a half of back-and-forth; initial payout was only $45 000.

Day 4¶

1:40:12 Four-Year Wait for Quebec Program and Pfizer’s Denial Letter — Myriam Bohémier · Shannon Holmes · Lisa Lavoie 📬 An immunologist filed both a Quebec IVAC claim (opened only in September 2025 after four years) and a side-effect report to Pfizer.
2:15:22 Electric Seizures, Necrotic Throat, PTSD and VISP Radio Silence — Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes · Dean Allison ⚡ He still suffers whole-body pain, a once-80%-necrotic throat, chronic pancreatitis, and “electric seizures” that drop him to the floor.
2:17:08 Q&A: Can you elaborate on Vaccine Injury Support Program timelines? — Shannon Holmes · Dean Allison · Glen Motz 📅 Pritchard was told he would reach the medical board by year-end, then pushed back a step, then left in queue with a “huge file” and no further contact.
2:43:13 Q&A: What would you like to see happen as a result of this inquiry? — Dean Allison · Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes 🔍 Daniel calls for transparency, public airing of what happened, and real checks and balances so injured people actually receive help.
4:25:45 Dean Allison: Compassion, Compensation Gaps and Canada’s Inquiry Blind Spot — Dean Allison 💔 Allison urges dignity for vaccine-injured Canadians alongside those who lost loved ones to COVID-19, rejecting dismissal of health concerns.
4:57:16 Psychiatry Taboo, Workers’ Comp Catch-22 and Empty ‘Win’ — Myriam Bohémier · Toni Lannigan 🚫 Psychiatrists diagnosed PTSD and panic disorder yet treated vaccine injury as taboo—‘shit happens, move on’—worsening trauma.
7:16:32 Robert Denesiuk: Why He Testified—Safety and Compensation — Myriam Bohémier · Robert Denesiuk · Dean Allison 😢 Hardest blow was father’s death from cancer right after Robert’s first post-hospital Christmas, then COVID weight loss.
7:43:58 Vaccine Injury Support Program: Six Managers, Then Denial — Myriam Bohémier · Jasmine Comeau 📑 She applied soon after injury, cycled through more than six case managers, and repeatedly paid to resend medical records.

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