Covid Mandates Gutted the Canadian Military- NCI
Partial transcript of National Citizen’s Inquiry April 26, 2023
Catherine Christensen is a lawyer and has represented hundreds of military members and who have been adversely affected by the ongoing vaccine mandate of the Canadian Armed Forces. She is the founder of the non-profit, “Valor Legal Action Centre” providing access to legal services for military members and veterans.
Military members feel their trust for the Canadian government is now gone. Ms. Christensen said what she is hearing from the ranks is that, “We don’t trust them anymore. They weren’t looking out for us, they didn’t stand up for us when they should have.”
Leighton Grey: Unknown to most people members of the Canadian Armed Forces are prohibited from speaking negatively about the Canadian Armed Forces or about the chain-of-command and Government of Canada.
Catherine Christensen: That’s correct. Fortunately, I’m not in the chain-of-command, so I can speak for them.
In October 2021, I was approached by hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces members, about the directive from the Chief of Defence Staff, mandating the injections. I was fully prepared to tell them that it was likely to be an Afghanistan of fights and then I began to be told the stories of what was happening in the ranks, of what commanding officers were doing to their own people. These members asked me to bring my skill set and knowledge to their fight, and I couldn’t let them stand alone.
Our military members were used to set an example for the population of Canada, for a one hundred per cent vaccination rate, come hell or high water.
The two Chiefs of Defence Staff ahead of this current serving Chief of Defence Staff did not bring in a mandate. The documentation shows they were very aware it could not be done and no doubt understood the risks of a medical treatment decimating the entire Canadian military if something went wrong. Setting up these men and women to be guinea pigs, for an experimental medical treatment and then hiding the damage from it, would be a war crime if it was done to prisoners of war. It certainly was a war crime in World War II, yet General Eyre did it to his own people, and he thinks he’s untouchable to answer for it.
A military with leaders who see themselves as above the law is a dangerous thing.
And what happens to those who followed orders and took the injections and are now permanently disabled? Veterans Affairs Canada is telling them, “No, not service related.” Once again, veterans will face a procedural system that fails them and are forced to go to the court for deserved compensation.
Gag order
Why have the people of Canada not heard what the Canadian Armed Forces did to some of their best people in the name of COVID-19? as has been said, it’s because members of the Canadian Armed Forces are gagged from speaking out by their own Queen’s Regulations and Orders. They can’t speak out, which made them the perfect population to control.
The Chief of Defence Staff has shown that he is willing to sacrifice the entire military and their families under his command for political gain. Indeed, he received a promotion immediately after the mandate was brought in. Vice-Admiral Topshee was promoted to Commander of the Navy, after he forced a third booster mandate on the Royal Canadian Navy. These were political appointments for a job well done, at the expense of the members they are expected to lead and whose well-being should be paramount for them to protect.
Prime Minister has no power over the Canadian military
In Canada, it should be noted, that we have an additional check for our military that no one even thinks about: Soldiers, sailors, and aircrew do not serve at the pleasure of the Prime Minister, in this case Justin Trudeau. He has no power over our military. They serve at the pleasure of the King of Canada. Technically, the King can turn the military on the government or the police. Keep in mind, the King has the power to dismiss the Prime Minister or dissolve Parliament through the Governor General. His Majesty is the last line of defence. To King Charles, I would say, “Your Canadian military is in deep distress, and your troops need you to intervene before it is too late for Canada.”
It is a myth, that putting on the uniform for military service, strips a member of all rights of a citizen and removes bodily autonomy. Members who understood they were still Canadian citizens, with high legal protections were vilified by an ignorant and misinformed chain of command who pushed an agenda that all legal avenues are closed when an oath is taken, this is categorically not true.
The true cost in dollars may never be fully known
Remedial measures or punishments were being handed out before accommodation requests could be applied for or granted. There was no intention to allow for religious or medical reasons to not take the injections. The right to refuse did not exist in the Canadian Armed Forces, according to the chain-of-command.
To date there has been no covid-19 deaths in the Canadian armed Forces.
The true damage to the Canadian Armed Forces has come from the injections themselves, the consequences of an experimental gene therapy and the mandate. COVID-19 did not decimate the Canadian Armed Forces. The leadership did it from within.
Years of service gone, benefits gone, pensions gone or reduced, injured members denied earned benefits of a medical release, denied unemployment insurance benefits, and blocked from some forms of employment due to the release category of 5F (Unsuitable for further service). The true cost in dollars may never be fully known.
No value to operational readiness
How do I even begin to explain the human cost of COVID-19 mandates on the people and families of the Canadian Armed Forces?
Do I talk about pregnant women in uniform, hounded in their homes and charged with AWOL after being hospitalized, even while the leadership had a policy to not vaccinate a pregnant member with any vaccine?
Do I talk about young, healthy people wanting nothing more than to serve their country being driven out and told they were morally weak and no better than alcoholics, drug addicts, rapists, and domestic violence abusers?
Do I talk about previously healthy men and women now facing medical emergencies and injuries that have left them disabled for life?
Do I talk about the young women who have been sexually assaulted but stayed in uniform only to find senior leadership forcing them into yet another physical assault? To quote one of them, “Being forced to take this into my body by a superior officer was like being raped over a desk at basic training all over again.”
Do I talk about the jeering taunts of non-commissioned officers bragging about coercing another member into taking the shot? “Got another one, boys.”
The list goes on and their voices have been silenced until today. Canada needs to know that the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces did not let Canada down. All they wanted was to serve in order to protect the freedom and rights the Canadians hold dear, and their predecessors fought for, in the past.
The blame lies in the current leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Surgeon General, the Chaplain General, and the Judge Advocate General, who determined there was nothing wrong with offering the Canadian military up to a medical experiment with no value to operational readiness, and with a cost the members have only started to pay.
Q & A
Commissioner Drysdale: Do you have any idea how many members have either quit, been thrown out, retired early, or in any other way been removed from operational ranks?
Catherine Christensen: I can tell you my best guess, just from how many have talked to me or I’ve heard through the grapevine. I would estimate anywhere between three thousand and five thousand people were lost, and when you’ve got a military as small as ours, we’re talking a huge hit. If you were a business and you lost ten to fifteen per cent of your people in one fell swoop, you’d be out of business and truthfully, in my opinion, the Canadian military right now is out of business. We couldn’t mount a defence of our own country, let alone send people to NATO-involved [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] conflict right now.
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