TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING
Immediately following her leadership victory, rumors began to circulate that unless Premier Smith backtracked on several of her campaign promises and did not re-appoint Travis Toews, Tyler Shandro and Jason Copping to cabinet in their previous positions that there would be a “caucus revolt”. It was being alleged that fully half of the “United” Conservative Party caucus would “walk out” and destroy any chance that Danielle Smith had to prevent Rachel Notley from becoming premier of Alberta. In other words, members of the Toews-Kenney, UCP caucus were threatening to completely surrender our home and province to the three headed Notley-Singh-Trudeau and their World Economic Forum led “Just Transition” team if they didn’t get everything they wanted from the democratically elected leader of their party.
Several former Kenney cabinet ministers seem to have a vested interest in preventing Danielle Smith from flipping over the rock under which their putrefying COVID19 decisions and their Rachel Notley, NDP appointed or sympathizing bureaucratic advisers are hiding. Let’s not forget that Travis Toews was responsible for personally deciding to underfund business support for businesses locked down by Alberta’s Rachel Notley, NDP appointed, “Chief Medical Officer of Health”, Deena Hinshaw. Toews has no interest in the truth coming out about how many businesses and lives were ruined by his failure as finance minister to fully compensate businesses that were put on life support through deliberate decisions of the Kenney Sky-Palace Cabinet and their Notley-NDP appointed “advisors” including Deena Hinshaw.
The recent announcement that Premier Smith cannot intervene in the decision to deny Annette Lewis’ lung transplant on the basis of her C19 vaccine status indicates that Premier Smith is being plagued with yet more horrible advice from the same ilk of “doctors” on the “Scientific” Advisory Group that misadvised Jason Kenney. The advice that Danielle Smith is receiving seems aimed at deliberately creating a division between Premier Smith and her principled conservative base.
“Advisors” around Danielle Smith seem to have convinced her that she can’t intervene in a civil matter because it “is before the courts”. Danielle Smith is PREMIER. This means that she is the head of the executive branch of the government. This means that it is well within her purview to direct that any civil case having broad policy implications be settled or resolved on a basis that aligns with her basic policies such as the “public interest” in ending all forms of vaccine related discrimination.
The suggestion that Danielle Smith can’t direct a resolution of the Lewis case is silly. Attorney General Tyler Shandro can tell the Prime Minister of Canada that he will ignore the Criminal Code of Canada when it comes to enforcing federal firearms laws but the Premier of Alberta can’t legally instruct her appointed Attorney General to consent to an injunction allowing Annette Lewis to remain on the lung transplant list? If Mr. Shandro won’t follow the instructions of the Premier in this regard, she would be well advised to show him the door.
AG Shandro is using Alberta tax dollars to pay lawyers to pursue the morally reprehensible policy decision of telling a person that they can either get a C19 shot or die. This is when the government of Quebec has just announced that it no longer recommends the C19 shot or boosters for anyone under the age of 60.
While writing this column, I personally contacted Dr. Dennis Modry, the founder and former Director of the Alberta Heart and Lung Transplant Program at the University of Alberta. Dr. Modry advised this writer that “no randomized, double-blind trials prove that it is necessary to have the C19 shot in order to receive a lung transplant.” Dr. Modry further confirmed that some studies even indicate a signal or correlation between the C19 shots, adverse immune response, and organ rejection.
Many medical professionals question whether the C19 shot transplant requirement can be medically, ethically, or morally justified. From a medical perspective if the concern for organ transplantation is that COVID 19 itself may cause organ rejection, where is the data to prove that C19 causes more organ rejection than the C19 vaccine? Where is the data to prove that organ rejection is more likely in an unvaccinated person who contracts C19 than in the numerous cases of C19 in people who contract C19 AFTER having been “vaccinated” for C19 two, three or four times?
Premier Smith appears surrounded by people whispering that she needs to remember that 85% of Albertans were double vaccinated and therefore do not agree with her vaccine discrimination related promises. Many vaccinated Albertans remain deeply troubled or angered by QR Code requirements, and by friends and family being laid off or fired from their jobs, denied EI, denied the ability to travel, go to restaurants, go to their kids’ sporting events, take their kids to restaurants or other public venues, and countless other indignities suffered because of vaccine status. Many vaccinated people believe that all of these human rights abuses fundamentally misalign with our values as Albertans. Albertans as a whole resent living in the “15 Minute City”, “show me your papers”, “social credit score”, world dreamed of by Notley-Singh-Trudeau and their unelected, World Economic Forum, “Partners”.
What Premier Smith is not being reminded of is that approximately 60% of Albertans have not bought in to a 3rd shot and only 10% have had a 4th and a vanishingly small number have had their 5th. What this means is that it is more than likely, that fewer than 5% of Albertans are “up to date” with the C19 shot. As such, as many as 95% of Albertans are currently “unvaccinated” in accordance with Justin Trudeau’s “up to date” standard. The reason for this is that Albertans are well educated critically thinking people. We have access to something, “invented by Al Gore”, called the “internet”. Albertans are likely aware of the Cleveland Clinic’s recently published data indicating that the more shots a person gets the worse their health outcomes become. Albertans are likely now aware that AHS’ own data shows that a person is more likely to be hospitalized and die if they contract COVID after having 3 or more COVID 19 injections. Albertans are likely tired of taking a shot that makes them more ill than a disease that many of them have now had several times AFTER being “vaccinated” the first two times.
Any suggestion that Danielle Smith does not have the authority as Premier of Alberta to direct her Attorney General to settle Annette Lewis’ civil case in favor of Annette Lewis is indefensible from both a legal and moral perspective. Annette Lewis’ case is NOT a criminal case. Alberta Government lawyers can call Annette Lewis’ lawyers, tell them that they will consent to the Appeal and consent to an injunction tomorrow. The fact that Tyler Shandro has refused to give those instructions for over a year says everything that you need to know about the morality and ethics of former Sky Palace COVID Lockdown Ministers. People need to be held accountable for the human rights abuses suffered by Albertans. Kenney was a good start but Toews, Shandro and Copping all need to be shown the door.
We all need to support Danielle Smith in order to free her from the influence of the overtly misogynistic Kenney-Toews clique that surrounds her. People need to let Danielle Smith know that we believe in her and support her promises to end COVID vaccination discrimination and unethical medical practice that completely ignores the requirement of informed consent. AG Shandro needs to be directed to instruct OUR lawyers to consent to an injunction in favor of Annette Lewis.
Premier Smith also needs to direct Health Minister Copping to act under s. 135.1(1)(d) of the Health Professions Act to rein in AHS and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta ongoing persecution of numerous Alberta doctors who supported patient autonomy during the pandemic. If AG Shandro and Minister Copping won’t follow these instructions, they need to be fired sooner rather than later.
The appointment of Preston Manning to head a Commission of Inquiry is a good start. Hopefully the truth can start to be told. Hopefully people will be held accountable.
Premier Smith needs to consider amending the Alberta Interpretation Act to prohibit judges from allowing governments to use s. 1 of the Charter of Rights in a manner that allows government bureaucrats to infringe Charter Rights or rights under the Alberta Bill of Rights absent a cost-benefit analysis provable by the government on a balance of probabilities. The degree to which the standard of the “reasonable bureaucrat” is being used by government lawyers to avoid culpability for rights infringements by the unelected, administrative state needs to be legislatively outlawed.
Study after study and report after report confirm that the lockdowns caused far more harm than good and that the so-called vaccines are more likely to kill or severely harm people under the age of 60 than COVID itself while doing little or nothing to stop transmission of the highly transmissible Omicron variants. The recent Douglas W. Allen, Fraser Institute Essay confirming that Hinshaw style lockdowns imparted “tiny benefits” at “extraordinary costs” is only the most recent paper confirming the obvious. We need to know how many business bankruptcies, suicides, and deaths were occasioned by Alberta government policy led by Rachel Notley appointed, NDP bureaucrats. This examination should expressly include the degree to which COVID vaccine related deaths in Alberta may be grossly under-reported due to the manner in which COVID adverse event reporting requirements in Alberta are so onerous as to discourage reporting. An examination of the number of Albertans who may have died as a result of AHS and the CPSA actively seeking to “discipline” doctors for prescribing COVID Therapeutics including Ivermectin and Fluvoxamine also needs to be conducted.
The belief that electoral seats can be saved in Calgary and Edmonton if we would all just shut up about failures to address failed COVID policies until after the election will prove illusory if Albertans who put stock in morality and integrity decide to stay home and not turn out to vote in the next election.
Albertans who expect people to be held accountable for COVID mismanagement and rights abuses don’t just live in “rural Alberta”. There are hundreds of thousands of us in Calgary and Edmonton as well.
It’s never too late to do the right thing.
Jeffrey R.W. Rath B.A. (Hons.), LL.B. (Hons.)
Foothills, Alberta,
24 January, 2023