Canadians Speak at Washington ‘COVID Cartel’ Forum Chaired by Senator

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) speaks at a meeting of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in Washington on Aug. 6, 2020. Toni Sandys-Pool/Getty Images

Three Canadians—a researcher, a former journalist, and a former politician—testified at an international forum on the global response to the pandemic, with participants speaking about the harms caused by pandemic restrictions, COVID-19 vaccines, and media misinformation.

The roundtable discussion led by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, titled, “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?” included a panel of experts such as Dr. Robert Malone, journalist Lara Logan, and U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

A release said the event aimed to “expose the truth about how the COVID Cartel – federal health agencies, Big Pharma, legacy media, and Big Tech – engaged in censorship and coverups” in the pandemic response.

“Today, I speak for the people injured by the COVID-19 injectable products,” said Jessica Rose, a Canadian researcher with master’s, PhD, and post-doctoral degrees in immunology, computational biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry.

Speaking at the Washington, D.C., summit on Feb. 26, Ms. Rose accused the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of “hiding” millions of COVID-19 vaccine injuries by not following proper procedures when it came to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Ms. Rose said an analysis of the VAERS data has revealed “strong emergent safety signals” that have not been acknowledged by the CDC and FDA, which own that data. “This goes against standard operating procedures and begs the question, why are the injured being hidden?” she said.

Ms. Rose described the Bradford Hill criteria, which is used to assess causality in epidemiological data. A proportional reporting ratio greater than one means there is a causal effect, she said. For COVID-19 vaccine deaths in VAERS, this ratio was found to be 3.6.

Ms. Rose also said that by Jan. 20, 2021, the number of deaths successfully filed to VAERS was 634, which historically would be a sufficient signal to shut down the rollout of the shots. She pointed out that in 1999, a Rotavirus vaccine was pulled from the market due to a VAERS signal around intussusception involving 584 cases. Intussusception is a serious condition in which part of the intestine slides into an adjacent part of the intestine.

“If 584 cases of intussusception were enough to prompt product removal, why were 634 cases of death not enough to prompt COVID-19 product removal?” she said.

Dr. Rose said 10 out of 10 Bradford Hill criteria were being met regarding the COVID-19 vaccines, indicating clear causal links between the shots and adverse events. She said the CDC and FDA had failed to follow the standard operating procedures.

Journalistic ‘Propaganda’

Rodney Palmer, a former reporter of 20 years with CTV News and CBC Radio and television, told the committee that trust in media declined during the pandemic because outlets delivered “propaganda” and did not report some facts. As an example, Mr. Palmer said 488 people had been killed by COVID vaccines in Canada, according to Health Canada, but this statistic has been “censored” by the media.

Mr. Palmer pointed out that in the United States, drug companies are allowed to sponsor news segments and advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers, which leaves reporters in a “conflicted” position.

“They can’t bite the hand that feeds them. They can’t possibly investigate the most important stories of our time—gain-of-function laboratories, FDA regulatory capture, the World Health Organization’s plan for an International Pandemic Treaty—they can’t possibly do investigative reporting on these stories that affect every American,” he said.

Mr. Palmer said it appeared that reporters were colluding with drug companies to break FDA advertising laws, which require the companies to explicitly describe the known risks of pharmaceutical products.

“If the news here is an ad for the vaccines, which I believe it is, then they should report on the known risks of those vaccines,” he said.

Mr. Palmer recommended that the Senate investigate how American television news networks are “colluding with pharmaceutical advertisers to skirt the FDA laws that require them to declare the known risks of a pharmaceutical product.” He also said the Senate should investigate prohibiting pharmaceutical advertising on television, bringing the U.S. into alignment with almost every other country.

Former Ontario MPP

Randy Hillier, a former Ontario MPP, said he was opposed to “outrageous” COVID-19 restrictions in early 2020. Despite knowing “about a dozen” other MPPs who felt the same way, he said he was the only one who would publicly speak out.

Mr. Hillier said at one point during the pandemic, four senior staff members from Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office asked him, “Randy, how do we get out of this mess?”

“They knew that the virus and its harm and its lethality was highly exaggerated. They knew that the state of emergency was entirely unnecessary, and harmful. They knew that the lockdowns were exceptionally harmful, but they also knew that the 24/7 media hysteria was out of control,” Mr. Hillier said.

When the MPP told them they needed to be honest with the public and “ask for the people’s understanding and forgiveness for the needless harms that were done,” one staffer said doing so would cost them their jobs. Mr. Hillier said Ontario politicians continued to abdicate responsibility, hide data, and “become followers to the very mob we had created.”

Mr. Hillier has faced several charges for his participation in anti-lockdown rallies and the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest. In January 2023, a charge against Mr. Hillier related to a May 2021 protest was stayed.