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The Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy says British Columbia’s response to the coronavirus was too much and it caused an excessive amount of public harm. The organization filed a class action lawsuit saying B.C. overreached its authority.
The lead plaintiff, the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy (Society), says that its purpose is to advocate for the use of science in the formation of public policy. To that end, it claims that the B.C. government and Provincial Health Officer have based the province’s COVID-19 response on a misunderstanding of statistical data.
“In its response to the COVID-19 virus, the government of British Columbia has invoked extraordinary executive powers predicated on unsubstantiated scientific and legal grounds with catastrophic consequences for British Columbians,” alleges the class action lawsuit.
British Columbia’s response to COVID-19 began on March 18, 2020, with a declaration of a “state of emergency” by the provincial government. The declaration was made under the Emergency Program Act (EPA), allowing the government to exercise “sweeping statutory powers,” claims the Society.
“Despite the relatively low number of persons infected by COVID-19 in British Columbia, the Public Health Officer failed to provide notice that the emergency had passed and the Lieutenant Governor in Council continued to extend the emergency declaration under EPA,” contends the class action lawsuit.
The Society points out that between January and March of 2020, three deaths were attributed to COVID-19. The plaintiff acknowledges that the death rate increased in the following months, but mainly affected those in underfunded and staffed care home facilities.
“While hospitals prepared for an influx of COVID-19 patients, many medical procedures and operations were cancelled under the Provincial Government’s directives,” notes the class action lawsuit. “However, the high number of intensive care COVID-19 patients did not materialize. Most people infected with COVID-19 experienced mild to moderate influenza-like symptoms that abated quickly.”
The Society also points out that on-site and in person teaching activities have since resumed; however, the B.C. government has maintained a state of emergency.
“British Columbia is currently in the longest state of emergency in provincial history,” asserts the lawsuit.
The Society accuses the government of misrepresenting the fatality rate of COVID-19 to maintain this status. Further, health officials are allegedly using inaccurate test results that skew the infection rate higher. In fact, the tests themselves are inaccurate having registered false-positive COVID-19 results for a goat, a kiwi, and papaya, says the Society.
The result has been “excessive public alarm” with harmful effects, including an increase in mental illness, suicide, loss of employment, bankruptcies, and other financial consequences, increases in domestic violence, divorce rates, and fewer services to low income and homeless people.
“Meanwhile the Provincial Government, the Provincial Health Officer, and her staff continue to enjoy economic security through salaries, other benefits, and pensions,” asserts the lawsuit. “All government salaries, other benefits, and pensions are at public expense and far less subject to market conditions than the millions of British Columbians’ lack of economic security caused by the continued state of ‘emergency’.”
The proposed class action lawsuit seeks to represent B.C. residents and businesses who have suffered personal injuries or losses since March 17, 2020, due to the province’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Do you think the B.C. government overstepped its authority in its COVID-19 response? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below.
The lead plaintiff and proposed Class Members are represented by Polina Furtula of Citadel Law Corporation.
The B.C. COVID-19 Response Class Action Lawsuit is Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia, et al., Case No. 210831, in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada.
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46 thoughts onB.C. Government Overreached in COVID-19 Response, Class Action Lawsuit Asserts
Only a complete fool would not know that this is a massive fraud and a criminal one at that; many people deserve to be in prison for the death and destruction they have caused with perpetuation of this fake pandemic.
totally agree with you!!!
This emergency declaration is being used so the province and it’s health officials could distribute the “Covid” vaccine. The vaccine has been rushed to market and has not gone through proper testing or trials. Therefore the people of B.C. are it’s experiment and lab rats. The province also used too high of cycle threshold for its fraudulent and unreliable PCR testing which was never intended to be used as a diagostic tool in the first place, The normal rate of the PCR test is 28 any CT above this creates false positives and skews the case rate of infections. The cases from this test were used against the people to create restrictions. These facts alone should be enough to put Bonnie Henry, Mike Farnworth, Adrian Dix and John Horgan in prison. The people of B.C. have suffered massive losses to it’s job economy because of restrictions. All lockdowns and restrictions must be removed i.e. Florida, Texas and 23 other states.
Gross negligence, stupidity and fear mongering.
There needs to some accountability.
Hahahaha try proving a kiwi or a goat gives a positive test in a court of law !
Sorry for the business’s struggling , its that or more death
I choose Dr Bonnie’s care to save lives
Dr. Bonnie Henry,
British Columbia Provincial Health Officer,
Ministry of Health,
1515 Blanshard Street,
Victoria, BC V8W 3C9
Dear Dr. Henry,
I am a physician who has been in family medical practice in BC for more than 40 years and a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC since 1978.
I am writing this letter with the hope that you will be able to clarify the basis of your decision-making that has led our provincial government, health ministry, regional health officers, hospitals, medical staff, WorkSafe BC, businesses, and everyday citizens to follow pandemic policies that do not appear based on high-quality scientific research and, in fact, appear to be doing everyone a great deal of harm.1
The early intent of mitigation measures to “flatten the curve”, when we knew very little about SARS-CoV-2, its mode of transmission, and the severity of COVID-19, was reasonable. I believe that most physicians in Canada, myself included, whether active or retired, prepared themselves to take part on the front lines for the expected COVID-19 tsunami. Very soon it was apparent that the expected overwhelming of the hospital system was not going to occur, and now BC physicians have questions about the appropriateness of your public health policies.
The epidemiological evidence clearly shows that the “pandemic” is over and no second wave will follow. The evidence has been available for at least 4-5 months and is irrefutable.2–4 Yet, in spite of this substantial body of research, your office is perpetuating the narrative that a pandemic still exists and a second wave is expected. This false story is being used to justify public health policies that appear to have no health benefits, have already caused considerable harm, and threaten to create more harm in the future.
As you are aware, Sweden took an entirely different approach and, as of mid-September, their infection rate reached an all-time low and Covid-19 related deaths were at zero; 22 of 31 European countries, most of which enacted strict lockdowns, had higher infection rates. Sweden has also largely escaped the financial ruin and catastrophic mental health problems experienced in other countries, including Canada and the U.S.A.
Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, Montréal’s medical officer, has stated “this COVID virus is much like the seasonal flu”. A group of over 400 Belgian doctors have stated “COVID is not a killer virus, but a treatable condition”. Eighteen Canadian doctors wrote the Ontario Premier, Doug Ford, stating “your policies risk significantly harming our children with lifelong consequences”. The Ontario policies are very similar to those of British Columbia.
In 2011, a review of the literature by the British Columbia Centres for Disease Control that sought to evaluate the effectiveness of social distancing measures such as school closures, travel restrictions, and limitations on mass gatherings as a means to address an influenza pandemic concluded that “such drastic restrictions are not economically feasible and are predicted to delay viral spread, but not impact overall mortality”. [Italics added]
Specifically, there appears to be no scientific or medical evidence for5–6
1. Self-isolation of asymptomatic people
2. social distancing
3. facemasks
4. arbitrary closure of businesses
5. closure of schools, daycares, park amenities, and playgrounds
6. the discontinuance of access to education, medical, dental, chiropractic, naturopathic, hearing, dietary, therapeutic, and other support for the physically and mentally disabled, particularly special needs children with neurological disorders
7. the closing down of or restrictions on religious places of worship.
According to the CDC Pandemic Severity Index, none of these measures have been warranted. The Great Barrington Declaration, signed by more than 30,000 health scientists and medical doctors from around the world, adds support for this statement.
Surprisingly, the recommendation for reducing COVID-19 morbidity and mortality by supplementing with vitamin D, a measure that is supported by high-quality research, has been absent from your frequent public broadcasts and professional bulletins.7 Optimizing nutrition is a convenient, inexpensive, and safe method of improving immune resistance and has been confirmed through numerous studies for both prevention and treatment of COVID19. As far as I am aware, you have never mentioned something as simple as vitamin D supplements for our most vulnerable citizens. Yet, it was the promise to protect these same citizens that was used to justify the lockdown of a healthy population and the closure of businesses.
Why are you still using PCR testing? The Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Health in Ontario has publicly stated that the PCR test yields over 50% false positives. A New York Times investigative report found that PCR testing yields up to 90% false positives due to excessive amplification beyond the recommendations of the manufacturer. The PCR test was never designed, intended or validated to be used as a diagnostic tool. Even the Alberta Health Services COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group has stated “clinical sensitivity and specificity values have not been determined for lab developed RT-PCR testing in Canada”.8 Despite expert consensus, you continue to use this inappropriate and inaccurate test to report so-called “cases” and justify your decisions.9-18
The public health definition of a “case” is very broad. As all experienced doctors know, a “case” is a patient with significant symptoms who is often hospitalized. A “case” is not a person who simply has a questionably positive PCR test and presents with no symptoms or an unrelated diagnosis. Pictures of healthy young adults standing in line to get PCR tests, with a cell phone in one hand and a Starbucks coffee in the other, are everywhere in the media. These are not sick people and do not need testing.
Nevertheless, your public announcements repeatedly emphasize that the “case” counts are rising and we are in big trouble. Recently, “out-of-control” case counts were used to justify a second lockdown in Ontario and Quebec. Curfews have been put into place. People are being asked to risk their livelihoods to make sacrifices for the general good, based on Public Health’s misrepresentation of “cases” as sick people.
Meanwhile, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths from COVID-19 have dropped to pre-pandemic levels. Where are all the patients?
Why not simply tell the public that
• the PCR testing is not reliable and is meaningless for diagnosing COVID-19
• positive PCR test results do not represent sick patients,
• rarely are people now becoming ill from SARS-CoV-2,
• provincial hospitals are essentially empty of COVID-19 patients,
• decisions should not be based on “cases” in the news,
• the morbidity/mortality of COVID-19 has not exceeded seasonal influenza,
• the median age of death from COVID-19 in Canada was 85 years,
• the pandemic is over, and
• no second wave is coming?
It is your duty as the provincial health officer to provide facts, not propaganda, and make every effort to stop the public panic. The only reason for emphasizing “cases” is to induce more fear and thereby compliance in the name of promised safety.
Why are children being pursued with a new rinse-and-spit saliva test that is also based on a worthless PCR test? Children have been terrorized and are being given the message that they can never be trusted not to infect their family and friends — essentially, that they are naturally bad. The insistence on covering their faces with masks, a proven useless and even harmful measure, only worsens this sense of shame. The psychological fallout from such messaging is going to be horrific. One only needs to walk down Main Street to already see the catastrophic effects of these messages on the mental and emotional health of families.
The excess death toll from partial lockdowns, social distancing and other public health measures is staggering. The Canadian media reports that provincial measures have been shown to create 12:1 more deaths than the virus; there has been a 40% increase in heart attack deaths in Canada from fear, anxiety and cancelled hospital procedures; suicide and drug overdose deaths have increased and outnumber COVID-19 deaths by a ratio of 3:1; suicides have doubled in BC since April; and anxiety and depression, food insecurity, domestic violence, and child abuse have skyrocketed. With unnecessary school closures, the ability of teachers to identify children subject to abuse and malnourishment has been curtailed. Many of our friends, family and patients died alone, terrified, and isolated against their will in facilities and nursing homes. That cruel policy was unjustified and inhuman.
How is it possible that a doctor with your previous training and experience did not anticipate the collateral damage of your public health policies – the economic disruption, the psychological and physical health consequences, and the deaths from despair?
The mainstream media has created a religion out of public health, one based on superstition, not science, with the power to rule over an obedient public. The news channels have raised you to almost saint-like status. Tea towels, shoes and murals have been designed to celebrate your accomplishments. Yet, your public directives do not make sense, contradict the research, and are causing people a great deal of harm. As a fellow doctor, I appeal to you to re-examine your policies and change direction before Public Health causes irreparable damage to our province’s health and economic well-being. That about-face will require you to meet the obligations of your office.
Sincerely,
Stephen Malthouse, MD
Member, College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia,
This is the best letter to Henry I’ve read thus far!
It’s amazing to me how so many people just soak up the propaganda the mainstream media regurgitates every day with so many contradictions in their stories. What will it take to wake them up?
You are completely brainwashed by the lies of the media, who by the way get their funding now from the government which is of course us we the people. Start thinking for yourself before it’s too late – take a look around this is not a pandemic – nowhere near it.
If and when people do start dropping like flies it will be because they have taken an experimental gene therapy that has already caused over 4000 deaths in the USA and 12,000 in Europe and that’s only what’s been reported on the VAERs system, which itself only reports approximately 1% of adverse reactions.
BC Govt. definitely overstepped & continuing to overstep its authority in Covid-19 response. Hold them accountable all the way! Full support
People like Dr Bonnie Henry, and Horgan have gotten rich off of this scamdemic. Their assets should be seized and distributed to those who lost employment and income from their totalitarian actions. Public hangings should be reinstated after convictions of crimes against the Nuremberg Code can be sought.
im thinking firing squad would be more appropriate for these evil pieces of excrement.anyone involved with creating or enforcing these garbage covid restrictions should be tried and held accountable for huge crimes.how do i join a class action against the government for in the very least an assault on my mental wellbeing?
Ask Bonnie Henry how her vineyard is doing in the Okanagan (Clos du Soleil Winery 2568 Upper Bench Rd, Keremeos, BC V0X 1N4). It, to my knowledge, was NEVER shut down during the so-called pandemic….that should tell you something about how real this pandemic actually is. Don’t get me wrong…I do believe that Covid 19 is a real disease and has killed people….but then again the regular flu is real and has killed people as well…this is all just a scam.
I would like to add my name to this Class Action suit if it goes ahead….It has affected my family in mental health ways, more arguing, etc has been happening because we had been forced to stay home more with each other and the added stress of if you do go out will someone freak on you if you mask slips…don’t tell me that was not happening…my kids saw people on Skytrain freaking on others for that very thing…their masks slipping off their nose for a short bit of time…..the anxiety this so-called pandemic has caused to my family is terrible and I would like to formally say I want in on the class action law suit if it does go forward.
I want to formally express my interest in joining the class action lawsuit on behalf of myself and my business. I am in the entertainment industry and have been explicitly told that my primary tool for income and freedom of expression, singing, is a biohazard. I know this to be patently false. There is no evidence to support lockdowns, mask-wearing or social distancing for the purposes of limiting spread of this abstract coronavirus disease, and in fact, it is commonly accepted scientific and medical principal that all three of those measures carry massive consequences including, but not limited to, extreme deterioration of mental health to the point of illness or death, and the acceleration of an array of physical illnesses that DO absolutely lead to death. My career will not be shut down by authoritarianism, and I will not accept being discriminated against due to my own diagnosed mental health disorders that do not allow me to wear a mask. I am in fear and I refuse to stand by any longer. Let me know how I can help and become a plaintiff in this suit.
Dear Wayne Redekop, Mayor Fort Erie, Doug Ford Premier of Ontario, Justin Trudeau PM of Canada,
Seeing as you are a public servant and I am public, I am going to ask you to do me a service:
Are all patients in acute hospitals now declared Covid-19 patients because they were all tested with 100% accurate, fit for purpose tests?
How many “covid patients” went in for something minor or routine and were force tested with an unfit for purpose test, thus bumping up the stats?
What testing is used to accurately test Covid-19 patients? What are they being tested for as there’s no documented proof of such thing as Covid-19 being isolated? What happened to all flu patients that usually fill the hospitals this time of the year? Where did the flu go? Did it just fly away?
Please be careful replying to the above as I already have all the information.
As you no doubt support the government and health minister:
1. Do you support denying vital life- saving diagnostics/treatments to patients with non-Covid-19 related conditions resulting in their untimely deaths? When the efforts of the Health Minister are meant to preserve life. What makes lives of 80+-year-olds (those who are affected by so-called Covid-19) more important than the lives of significantly younger people?
2. Do you support the economic collapse of the hospitality, close contact and other currently quarantined industries and services they provide to the community of your constituents?
3. Do you support decimating people’s livelihoods, pushing them to bankruptcies and trampling on their fundamental right to work and feed their families?
4. Do you support denying children and young adults the activities vital to their mental, physical and social development?
5. Do you support denying families their fundamental right for family life?
6. Do you support denying people their fundamental right to assembly and association?
7. Do you support denying people their fundamental right to make choices pertaining to their own health?
8. Do you support locking up residents in nursing homes denying them the last things that are left to live for: contact with their loved ones?
9. Do you support forcing masks and hand sanitisers that are scientifically proven to be detrimental to both physical and mental health?
10. Do you support forcing Covid testing which is yet another breach of Nuremberg code?
11. Do you support rising numbers of suicides as a direct result of Covid-19 life-saving measures?
Because, by support “Covid-Uber-Alles” you are also supporting the above.
I have loads more “do you support” questions but I am afraid, judging by our previous correspondence, your attention span might run out before I finish asking them.
If I do not hear from you within 7 business days I will assume that you stand by the policies mandated by the government, and as a consequence I will support all legal action to hold you personally accountable for harms already perpetrated, as well as future harms arising, in forthcoming legal proceedings. I will also support all and any measures to ensure that you are never allowed to stand again as an elected official for this or any other constituency.
I await hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
I feel the class action lawsuit is the perfect thing to help out the people of BC that have been harmed because of the total mismanagement of the current government i feel they fiddle while bc burns
Hello, I am a business owner on the verge of going under. I own a small limousine company in the Okanagan, and have been destroyed by the over-reaching measures set in place that are destroying livelihoods of people like me. I really want add my company to a class action lawsuit against the government / pho for violating my ability to run a sustainable business. Any information or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Please let me know how I can join this class action law suit. We all need to stand together in this.
Notice of Conditional Acceptance
Notice to agent is notice to principle, notice to principle is notice to agent.
THIS NOTICE REQUIRES YOUR URGENT ATTENTION. TIME SENSITIVE DOCUMENT.
Dear Wayne Redekop, Mayor Fort Erie, Doug Ford Premier of Ontario, Justin Trudeau PM of Canada,
I have considered the issues raised in the Canadian media by Wayne Redekop, Mayor Fort Erie, Doug Ford Premier of Ontario, Justin Trudeau PM of Canada. Here is my notice that, despite my objection I will conditionally accept your demands on proof of the following:
1) You can provide a document that shows and provides scientific evidence of the testing procedure being used in Canada that 100% positively identifies COVID-19 otherwise known as SARS COV2, not any other type of coronavirus in a living being beyond any reasonable doubt.
2) You can guarantee and prove that the tests being used to justify these “guidelines” will not give a false positive result.
3) Evidence that this is “law” because it clearly says “guidelines”.
4) A copy of the two-way contract signed by BOTH parties where I agreed to follow these “guidelines”
5) Please provide scientific proof of “COVID-19” being highly contagious.
6) Please clearly define what you mean by a “public health threat”.
7) Can you confirm the current medical threat to a normal health individual (under 75) and confirm how many critically ill healthy people without any underlying conditions there are in ICU so I can make an informed decision on these “guidelines”.
8) What are the grounds for an alleged “public health threat” Are the severity levels of higher importance than the long-term threat I face in terms of mental and financial ruin?
9) Are you willing to personally accept full liability to the sum of $10M Canadian dollars, for any/all financial, physical and/or mental health problems, including but not limited to death brought on by following these guidelines.
10) Please provide evidence that this “guideline” has been through a risk assessment and will protect me from mental and financial ruin, and provide said risk assessment for my assessment so that I can make an informed decision about this “guideline”.
11) Please present me with the full “guidelines” in plain English, not legalese, and show me where it specifically names me and my business. In the event that you cannot name me and my business specifically, please provide a Plain English version of the guidelines.
12) Where there is no victim, there is no crime. Please explain to me how I am breaking the Law by not adhering to this “guideline”.
Only a reply that meets the following criteria qualifies for a proper and verified reply.
• It must be supported by signed writing with a full legible, title, wet signature, name and address, signed and sworn or affirmed as being true, complete, certain and not intended to mislead and on full commercial Liability and on penalty of perjury.
• Any and all correspondence must only be sent by registered mail or email (where there is an acknowledgement of the receipt, the absence of acknowledgement implies non receipt and followed up with written copy meeting above criteria).
• I do not consent to, or authorise to be contacted by phone, text message or any other method not mentioned above.
All questions 1-12 MUST be either a) answered or b) rebutted clearly in PLAIN ENGLISH.
I expect a reply in the correct manner as outlined above to be received by close of business Friday 28th May 2021.
Any third-party interlopers will be classes as trespasser(s) and will be dealt with as such.
To make clear, I do not stand under you, or any interloper, nor wish or consent to contract with the same unless and until the above has been adhered and provided to me in full by the terms set out herein.
Regards,
The state of emergency, lockdowns, mandatory mask wearing and everything else does need to stop.
The damage our government is causing both financially and mentally is terrible.
It sickens me to see how many people are on board and ok with it.
What is next? Why is this happening? What is the motive? That’s the part that scares me the most. What is the end game for all of this?
As far as I was concerned the emergency mandate ended on July 31st, 2021. Why are now being mandated to use masks and punishing actions for unvaccinatef people. We’re no longer in a state of emergency! What’s going on? Is it all power and control topped up with economic gains for those in charge? I think we need to get a lawsuit against all the people that have been proclaiming the safety and mandate of this vaccines. Also, the school boards for not protecting children and youth. We’re being persecuted and intimidated with comments by people in the media stating that we don’t deserve to get health care because we choose not to get the jab. We also pay taxes, if they don’t want to let us access health care, are they going to give us back the taxes we’ve paid thus far?