Inquiry Proceedings¶

Opening remarks, oaths, recesses, technical difficulties, name readings, adjournments, and other housekeeping that frames the hearings without substantive testimony.

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Day 1¶

0:00:27 Stream Opens Amid Repeated Technical Difficulties — Dean Allison · Shawn Buckley 📡 The Lavigne Show feed repeatedly cuts to error messages apologizing for technical problems.
0:23:43 Chair Opens: Witnesses Travel at Great Personal Cost — Dean Allison ⚖️ Dean Allison stresses the inquiry lacks subpoena power yet witnesses feel obligated to appear.
0:27:03 US Senator Ron Johnson Sworn In as First Witness — Dean Allison 📖 Senator Johnson takes the Bible and swears to tell the truth before the Canadian inquiry.
0:35:53 Johnson’s Love of Canada and Personal Medical Journey — Ron Johnson · Dean Allison ❤️ Johnson opens by declaring deep affection for Canada, fishing trips and shared Magna Carta heritage.
1:55:10 Short Recess Before Remaining Questions — Dean Allison · Ron Johnson ⏸️ Shawn Buckley calls a roughly ten-minute break so participants can use the washroom.
3:52:58 Thanks, Media Blackout, and Morning Adjournment — Dean Allison · Ron Johnson 🙏 Allison thanks Johnson for leading global scrutiny and modeling truth-telling when answers are incomplete.
6:03:42 Kevin Street Sworn: Top Sales Mentor Never Had COVID — Shawn Buckley · Kevin Street ✝️ Shawn Buckley swears in Kevin Street, who confirms he never had COVID before his vaccine injuries.
7:54:01 John Grant Sworn In: Healthy Builder Turned Vaccine-Injured — Ron Johnson · Shawn Buckley · John Grant 👷 At 74, married 51 years, Grant had 40 years in construction, a sawmill, rural property, and led Awana youth programs.
8:19:04 Day 1 Closes; Heavy Vaccine-Injury Testimony Ahead — Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison 🗓️ Proceedings adjourn until 8:30 the next morning after last-minute witness substitutions for medical dropouts.

Day 2¶

0:00:57 Chair Opens Day 2 and Thanks Witnesses and Independent Media — Dean Allison 📢 Dean Allison welcomes viewers and thanks more than 1,400 vaccine-injured Canadians who applied to testify.
3:58:28 Lunch Break: Reading Names of the Vaccine-Injured into the Record — Dean Allison · Shawn Buckley · Ron Johnson 🍽️ Chair announces lunch recess from 12:30 to 1:15 while the feed continues.
4:48:24 Afternoon Session Opens: Dr. Jessica Rose Sworn In — Dean Allison · Shawn Buckley · Dr. Jessica Rose ⚖️ Chair Allison turns the afternoon over to counsel Shawn Buckley, who swears in Canadian researcher Dr. Jessica Rose.
5:31:19 Rose Closes: Say No Next Time; Inquiry Thanks — Dr. Jessica Rose · Dean Allison · James Freeland · Shawn Buckley 🗣️ She ends urging national and personal sovereignty—“just say no” when authorities repeat the playbook—and says she works for the injured and for humanity in an existential crisis.
5:39:20 James Freeland Sworn: Portrait of His Mother Donna — Shawn Buckley · James Freeland · Dean Allison 📖 Counsel swears James Freeland and establishes he will testify about his mother, Donna Lee Stevens Freeland—“Ma”—who did not have COVID.
6:00:37 Marylou Lavalle Sworn: Portrait of Dominic — Shawn Buckley · Marylou Lavalle 📖 Marylou Lavalle is sworn and introduced as Dominic’s wife of 23 years and high-school sweetheart.
6:23:28 Nicole Morier Sworn: Abigail the Earth Angel — Shawn Buckley · Nicole Morier · James Freeland 📖 Nicole Morier is sworn as mother of only child Abigail, whose GP later reported vaccine injury on the federal VISP form.
7:24:06 Jannine Duffy and Jennifer Britain Sworn In — Dean Allison · Jannine Duffy · Jennifer Britain ✝️ Chair Dean Allison swears in Jannine Duffy and her daughter Jennifer Britain to tell the whole truth.
7:52:32 Dr. Charles Hoffeee Sworn: Town Doctor in Lytton, BC — Dean Allison · Charles Hoffe · Jennifer Britain ✝️ Family and former ER doctor Charles Hoffee swears on the Bible before the inquiry.
8:27:41 Q&A: Was Hoffe Always an Activist or Troublemaker? — Dean Allison · Charles Hoffe 🏡 He rejects the activist label: he chose rural Lytton to serve patients, not to make a name.
8:29:06 MP Thanks, License Scare, and Day 2 Adjournment — Dean Allison · Charles Hoffe · Shawn Buckley · Jason Lavigne 📜 A BC MP recounts advocacy that helped reverse course on decertifying unvaccinated healthcare workers.

Day 3¶

0:00:51 Opening Welcome and Acknowledgment of Vaccine-Injured Canadians — Jason Lavigne 🙏 Host welcomes viewers in Ottawa and online, thanking over 1,400 vaccine-injured applicants who trusted the inquiry with their stories.
0:15:01 Expert Witness Deanna McLeod Sworn and Introduced — Dean Allison · Deanna McLeod · Carol Messenger 🔬 McLeod, with immunology training and a decade in pharma oncology marketing, founded an independent firm producing 50-plus peer-reviewed guidelines.
1:49:49 Dr. Crystal Luchkiw Sworn for Brother Scott Luchkiw — Dean Allison · Dr. Crystal Luchkiw · Carole Avoine ✝️ Family physician and palliative-care doctor Crystal Luchkiw is sworn to testify for her late brother Scott.
2:32:48 Patricia Leidl Sworn: WHO Communicator and Extreme Athlete — Dean Allison · Myriam Bohémier · Patricia Leidl · Carole Avoine ✝️ Former WHO/UN/USAID communications director Patricia Leidl, 64, is sworn; she drafted WHO’s State of the World’s Vaccines.
2:53:22 Dawood Al-Janaby Sworn: Healthy Gym-Going Software Student — Dean Allison · Dawood Al-Janaby ✋ 34-year-old York software-engineering student Dawood affirms; never had COVID.
3:17:39 Ken Drysdale Sworn: What the National Citizens Inquiry Was — Dean Allison · Ken Drysdale ⚖️ Ken Drysdale is sworn and introduced as NCI commissioners' chair, engineer, and principal author of multi-thousand-page COVID response reports.
3:34:54 National Citizens Archive and Bite-Sized Reports — 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.
4:12:17 Lunch Break: Reading Names of 1,400 Applicants — Dean Allison · Teresa Buckley · Stéphanie Giguère 🍽️ Allison extends lunch to 1:20 p.m. and notes over 1,400 people applied but could not all appear.
4:35:22 Shawn Buckley: Non-Partisan Permission to Speak — Shawn Buckley 🏛️ Counsel explains the citizen-run COVID-19 Testimony Association lets MPs of all parties listen without partisan ownership of the inquiry.
4:48:15 Teresa Buckley: Call for Witnesses After Lunch — Teresa Buckley · Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison · Crystal Denomme 📢 Teresa Buckley urges Canadians suffering from sea to sea to sign up as witnesses on the Allison Inquiry LIVE website.
4:50:38 Dr. James Thorp Sworn: Credentials in Maternal-Fetal Medicine — Shawn Buckley · James Thorp 📜 Dr. James Thorp is sworn in and introduced as a board-certified OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine physician with over 45 years of experience.
5:54:43 Mark Chapman Sworn: 30-Year Pilot and Mariner — Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison · Mark Chapman ✈️ Mark Chapman, 66, is sworn; 30-year military and civilian pilot (Sea King, air ambulance, offshore S-92) and master mariner.
6:19:13 Crystal Denomme Sworn: Former Active PSW — Shawn Buckley · Crystal Denomme 👩‍⚕️ Crystal Denomme, 48, mother of three adult sons, former PSW for severely disabled adults, is sworn in.
6:44:41 Julie Woods Sworn: Lab-Confirmed No Prior COVID — Shawn Buckley · Julie Woods 📖 Julie Woods is sworn in and confirms University Health Network testing proved she never had COVID.
7:13:44 Drew Taylor Sworn: VISP-Verified Injury, Too Fragile to Fly — Shawn Buckley · Drew Taylor 📖 Drew Taylor is sworn virtually after her doctor forbade in-person travel that could bed-bound her for weeks.
7:42:19 Noah Barclay Sworn: 23-Year-Old Fit Electrician Apprentice — Shawn Buckley · Noah Barclay 📖 Noah Barclay, now 28, is sworn; events occurred when he was a healthy 23-year-old.
7:56:46 Closing Thanks to Drew Taylor Before Next Witness — Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison · Drew Taylor 🙏 Counsel and chair thank young Drew Taylor for sharing his vaccine-injury story and note the employer has been understanding.
7:58:28 Cst. Cst. Helen Grus Sworn: Ottawa Police Detective Career — Shawn Buckley · Cst. Helen Grus ⚖️ Cst. Helen Grus is sworn and prefers the title Detective; she is currently second-class after discipline.
8:31:24 Q&A: Healing Division Through Inquiry, Forgiveness and Open Talk — Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison · Drew Taylor · Cst. Helen Grus 🎤 Grus sees the Allison Inquiry as restoring voice to the silenced and a concrete step past societal division.
8:37:27 Chair Closes Day 3: Permission to Speak and Meeting Adjourned — Dean Allison · Drew Taylor · Cst. Helen Grus 🗣️ Allison thanks Grus for taking a costly stand and frames the inquiry as giving the injured permission to speak about difficult things.

Day 4¶

0:01:20 Chair Allison Opens Final Day of the Inquiry — Dean Allison · Glen Motz 🎤 Dean Allison welcomes viewers to day four and restates the inquiry’s commitment to listen to vaccine-injured Canadians.
0:13:53 Dan Hartman Sworn In Wearing Son’s Hockey Jersey — Glen Motz · Dan Hartman 📖 Dan Hartman is sworn on the Bible and invited to wear a hockey jersey as an act of honour for his son Sean.
0:42:21 Journalist Rodney Palmer Sworn In on CBC Conduct — Glen Motz · Rodney Palmer 📰 Palmer’s résumé spans Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, CBC, and CTV foreign bureaus in India, Israel, and Beijing.
1:09:53 Shannon Holmes Sworn In: Vaccine-Induced Long COVID — Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes 👩 Holmes, 50, mother of two, former movement therapist specializing in MS and stroke clients, is sworn to testify.
1:31:01 Lisa Lisa Lavoie Sworn In: Active Retiree Turned Driving Instructor — Glen Motz · Myriam Bohémier · Shannon Holmes · Lisa Lavoie ✋ Volunteer counsel Myriam Bohémier swears in 68-year-old Lisa Lisa Lavoie, former nurse and research-lab worker who retired in 2015.
1:51:42 Joseph Pritchard Sworn In: Healthy Project Manager and Gym-Goer — Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes · Joseph Pritchard ✋ Glen Motz swears in Joseph Pritchard, 46 (41 at injury), former project manager who built commercial buildings and moved elevator machinery.
2:21:38 Jamie R. Daniel Sworn In: Advanced-Care Paramedic and Young Mother — Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes ✋ Motz swears in 36-year-old Jamie R. Daniel (31 at injury), advanced-care paramedic and practical nurse since age 18, mother of two, with husband Jeremy present.
2:47:04 Nicole Sedore Sworn In: Single Mother, Shelter Worker, No Prior COVID — Glen Motz · Shannon Holmes ✋ Motz swears in Nicole Sedore (spelled Sador in places), age 50 (45 at events), who affirms she will tell the truth.
3:09:28 Dr. Gary Davidson Sworn: Alberta COVID Data-Review Chair — Glen Motz · Dr. Gary Davidson ✈️ Emergency physician and former Red Deer chief flies in from Seoul meetings to testify.
4:06:33 Lunch Suspension: Reading 1,400 Names Who Could Not Testify — Dean Allison · Nicole Sedore ⏸️ Chair suspends proceedings for lunch, to resume at 1:15.
4:20:03 Final Names Read Aloud; The Silence Is Over — Teresa Buckley 📜 A long roll of Canadians who could not testify is read aloud, ending with Mario Lesperance and Madeleine Corbeau.
4:31:43 Shawn Buckley: Citizen-Run Non-Partisan Inquiry and Permission to Speak — Shawn Buckley ⚖️ Buckley explains the COVID-19 Testimony Association is volunteer and citizen-run so MPs of all parties can listen without partisan ownership.
4:46:35 Q&A: Does Pierre Poilievre Support Dean Allison Holding This Inquiry? — Dean Allison ✅ Allison says he has spoken with Poilievre and caucus and has absolute blessing to proceed.
4:47:25 Q&A: Can a Hill Response Be Non-Partisan After 2021 Vaccine Divides? — Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison 🧩 A reporter challenges non-partisanship given only Conservative MPs were unvaccinated around the 2021 election.
4:48:19 Toni Lannigan Sworn: PEI Nurse, Mother, and Agreed Vaccine Injury — Dean Allison · Toni Lannigan · Myriam Bohémier 📖 Counsel swears Toni Lannigan and notes doctors agree her case is vaccine injury.
5:09:52 Dr. Peter McCullough Sworn: Credentials and Pandemic-Planning Backdrop — Myriam Bohémier · Dr. Peter McCullough 🎓 Cardiologist-internist McCullough is sworn, with vast peer-reviewed output and prior testimony before U.S. and European bodies.
7:50:47 Shawn Buckley: How Prayer and Resolve Launched the Inquiry — Shawn Buckley 🙏 Buckley thanks God and recounts meeting MP Allison after a Parliament Hill event, then Holy Spirit prompting a follow-up.
7:56:33 Volunteers Who Sorted 1,400 Stories and Built the Room — Shawn Buckley ❤️ Buckley thanks wife Teresa as chief organizer and names volunteers who wept while sorting roughly 1,400 witness stories.
7:58:27 From 9/11 Fear to Four Days That Reject Silence — Shawn Buckley 📺 On the original September 11 Buckley watched the towers fall and felt the world shift into fear-based public management.
8:04:03 “We Are All in This Together”: McNair and a Call to Listen — Shawn Buckley 🎖️ Buckley recalls Michael McNair’s tense Day-2 testimony as pure moral injury, ending in a shouted “we are all in this together.”
8:06:52 Dean’s Thanks: Interpreters, Witnesses, MPs, and Family — Dean Allison · Shawn Buckley 🎧 Allison thanks Hill interpreters who worked 8:30–5:00 all week, room attendees, and listeners at home.
8:19:11 Not the Final Word: Examination, Dignity, and Permission to Speak — Dean Allison 📖 The inquiry was meant to start a years-overdue conversation on pandemic handling, evidence, harms, and future safeguards—not revenge.
8:21:22 Work Not Done: Keep Listening Until the Injured Are Heard — Dean Allison ✊ Allison declares the inquiry may end today but the work does not—more questions, more stories, more Canadians still need support.

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