[Craic] Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis

[Allan Baker]

Hi Art;

I do have an opinion on this matter, and it is not based on science.

IMO, the travel ban ought to have been instituted earlier in order to achieve the goals  for which it was established.

We all saw this COVID wave coming, and yet we allowed people to continue to circulate freely, becoming vectors bringing COVID into Canada. This travel ban technique was, and is, used by the government in China. They may have data on its effectiveness.
Yes, COVID would arrive in Canada eventually, as it did in Japan, for example. Even North Korea now has admitted to having COVID among its people. COVID is now endemic throughout this inter-connected world.

Because “the economy” is god to virtually all politicians in Canada, they delayed isolating Canada until it was too late, and there were Canadians who died, IMO, because of the misplaced priorities of the political class in this country.

COVID has revealed the inadequacies of our health care system and I am among this who are advocating for action on strengthening this essential service. We have learned many lessons from Covid, and now is the time for us to build resilience into the societal systems that have been devastated by policies of politicians dedicated to austerity.

Stay hopeful;
Allan


> On Aug 11, 2022, at 10:18 PM, Arthur Blomme via craic <craic at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> It is shameful that the legacy Press in Canada is silent on this revelation in our judicial system.  National Post columnist  Rupa Subramanya <https://substack.com/profile/20713865-rupa-subramanya> reported on this August 2nd in the online forum Common Sense. 
> 
>> Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis <https://www.commonsense.news/p/court-documents-reveal-canadas-travel>the following is an extract from the article. 
>> Among other things, the court documents indicate:
>> 
>> No one in the COVID Recovery unit, including Jennifer Little, the director-general, had any formal education in epidemiology, medicine or public health.
>> Little, who has an undergraduate degree in literature from the University of Toronto, testified that there were 20 people in the unit. When Presvelos asked her whether anyone in the unit had any professional experience in public health, she said there was one person, Monique St.-Laurent. According to St.-Laurent’s LinkedIn profile, she appears to be a civil servant who briefly worked for the Public Health Agency of Canada. St.-Laurent is not a doctor, Little said.
>> (Reached on the phone, St.-Laurent confirmed that she was a member of COVID Recovery. She referred all other questions to a government spokesperson.) 
>> Little suggested that a senior official in the prime minister’s Cabinet or possibly the prime minister himself had ordered COVID Recovery to impose the travel mandate. (During cross-examination, Little told Presvelos repeatedly that “discussions” about the mandate had taken place at “senior” and “very senior” levels.) But she refused to say who had given her team the order to impose the travel mandate. “I’m not at liberty to disclose anything that is subject to cabinet confidence,” she said. 
>> The term “cabinet confidence” is noteworthy because it refers to the prime minister’s Cabinet. Meaning that Little could not talk about who had directed the COVID Recovery unit to impose the travel mandate because someone at the very highest levels of government was apparently behind it.
>> In the days leading up to the implementation of the travel mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.
> Only the Sun  followed up on this on August 10.  
> 
>> LILLEY: Court records show Trudeau brought in vaccine mandates for travel purely based on politics <https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-court-records-show-trudeau-brought-in-vaccine-mandates-for-travel-purely-based-on-politics>
> This confirms for me that our legacy media no longer does honest journalism on the activities of the government.  It has been captured  by powerful interests and no longer speaks truth to power.  What do you think about This silence in the legacy media?
> 
> The truth will set us free
> 
> Arthur Blomme
> 
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