To add further skepticism, "Brian Peckford, former Premier of Newfoundland, disagrees. He is the last surviving member of the group that drew up Canada's Charter of Rights." is a massive red flag.
1. Chretien was much more instrumental to the authorship of the Charter, and is checks CBC as he's kind of old still alive.
2. That "qualification" is meaningless. It's trying to imply Canadian constitutionalism has original intent, which it doesn't (we use a living document philosophy). So a non-applicable appeal to authority.
Doesn't help that the one concrete example of "dissent" in the text itself is about covid vaccines, which afaik are pretty much a settled issue in terms of safety and efficacy.
Safety and efficacy for whom? Numerous European countries have already begun significantly dialing back the demographic groups to whom they are recommending booster shots, so I'd say it's looking pretty unsettled.
What about the case where new, largely untested therapies are being pushed on the public before they have even been around long enough for peer reviewed data on their long-term effects to become available, and the only peer-reviewed data on their short-term effects comes from trials run by the manufacturers themselves?
I had in mind PEG-coated-mRNA and adenovirus vaccines which cause the body's own cells to express a close analog to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen, a thoroughly novel approach which was rolled out to the general public roughly nine months after the very first tests were administered in humans, and in the case of mRNA vaccines more broadly, was described in articles as late as 2017 as potentially having problems with toxicity especially in repeat dosing.
A horrendously uninformed comparison. It's extremely tedious to still be reading this Pfizer/FDA copypasta at this point. It's more like if Ford wanted to release a car with some kind of completely new engine or propulsion type while having done almost no safety testing at all. And if, at the same time, they were telling you, "this is just like every other car we've ever made, what's the big deal?" it would be as good of a hint that they were hiding something as it turned out to be in the case of the mRNA vaccines.
Even in the case of traditional vaccines, it was generally expected pre-Covid that years of testing would be undergone before a rollout to the general public, so even putting aside the question of novelty, the more apt comparison would still be something like "Ford pushes out a new model car with a significant body redesign while doing a bare fraction of the usual crash safety tests."
Yep, in an extremely small handful of test subjects, and they were having huge problems with safety signals pretty much that whole time.
The mRNA vaccines are an abject failure, every jurisdiction which made heavy use of them has seen higher levels of excess deaths persist for far longer than would be expected after a pandemic runs its course.
Canadian doctors are routinely killing people, through the MAID program. Hospital are underfunded, and Shortages of staff, and lack of MRI machines are killing people who still want to live. 9 hour wait times in emergency rooms, pretty common.
Definitely a good heuristic for deciding whether to support a particular piece of legislation, one which will surely never come a cropper in spectacular fashion.
This argument is bad faith - there is a hugely important public health imperative for doctors not to peddle quackery. COVID disinformation led to a staggering loss of life, and no doctor should be permitted to participate.
What "disinformation which led to staggering loss of life" do you have in mind, specifically? The vast majority of high risk groups for SARS-CoV-2 were fully vaccinated very soon after vaccines were made available, so (assuming their protective benefits were actually all they have been cracked up to be) there couldn't have been some huge impact of "disinformation" there. There also couldn't have been a "staggering" additional loss of life in the less vaccinated lower risk groups because COVID wasn't a particularly lethal threat to them in the first place. And the vaccines had marginal-to-zero ability to reduce infection so any question of lost herd immunity is out the window. Is there something else I'm not thinking of that you have in mind?
Sure, but eventually the “public health imperative” demands they all peddle quackery. And your comment that “COVID disinformation led to a staggering loss of life” is disinformation itself.
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2. That "qualification" is meaningless. It's trying to imply Canadian constitutionalism has original intent, which it doesn't (we use a living document philosophy). So a non-applicable appeal to authority.
Even in the case of traditional vaccines, it was generally expected pre-Covid that years of testing would be undergone before a rollout to the general public, so even putting aside the question of novelty, the more apt comparison would still be something like "Ford pushes out a new model car with a significant body redesign while doing a bare fraction of the usual crash safety tests."
It's telling all you can do is attack me personally.
The mRNA vaccines are an abject failure, every jurisdiction which made heavy use of them has seen higher levels of excess deaths persist for far longer than would be expected after a pandemic runs its course.
What’s that, precisely?