No Privacy: Bonnie Henry Dropped (or renamed) The Covid Mandate For BC Healthcare Workers

[Healthcare Workers MUST report their vaccine & immunity status!]

Bonnie Henry in BC Canada has just DROPPED the nonsensical covid vax mandate for healthcare workers. John Rustad and the BC Conservatives forced her, Dix, and Eby’s hand to “change the science” as soon as the BC Conservatives started polling better than them. John Rustad (and also the independents) were very vocal about dropping the mandate and the public was swaying away from the NDP. [Full Announcement Here]

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With British Columbians three months away from the next general election, the incumbent NDP government received harsh criticism for not addressing its critically understaffed healthcare system. The timing seems like a desperate bid to reclaim their falling stock.

Moreover, three unvaccinated healthcare workers, who were banned from working, joined Rebel News to discuss why the lifted order falls short. They remain uninspired to resume their work.

BREAKING: B.C. finally ends its draconian COVID vaccine mandate against healthcare workers and acknowledges that there is no COVID emergency.https://t.co/Gi9Wj4LxWc pic.twitter.com/5wvxeStGSy— Drea Humphrey – Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) July 26, 2024

“I don’t know if I’ll ever go back, honestly,” Tracy London said. She served as a caregiver for nearly 30 years.

“The way that it ended, I never thought that would be the way my career would end,” the frontline worker said. Her employer must honor her seniority as a condition for her return.

“I find it very disrespectful of the commitment and the time that I’ve put in for Fraser Health to then tell me that I can just apply for any job that’s open,” she continued.

WATCH: @DreaHumphrey of Rebel News questions Diane Thomson from Pfizer over the company’s failure to check whether or not their vaccines stopped transmission.

FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/eO54BpLy59 pic.twitter.com/t7VnIaCMVp— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) December 13, 2022

The lack of job security is one of many concerns relayed to the publication by healthcare workers. Others include privacy and ethical concerns on workers disclosing their vaccination status for employment.

Terri Perepolkin, who worked as a lab technician before the mandate, has become the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit filed last year. According to Perepolkin, the newly rescinded order does not take away from her quest for justice.

“We weren’t suing the provincial health officer to get the mandates dropped,” she said. The technician, alongside the United Health Care Workers of B.C., are suing Dr. Henry for other reasons, including charter violations and breaches of contract.

Shared from https://www.rebelnews.com/bc_lifts_jab_mandate_workers_speak_out

The CSSEM response – Dr. Ben Turner, President

The Society notes, with mixed impressions, the long-delayed abolition of British Columbia’s unscientific and unethical COVID vaccine mandate for hospital-based workers. While this news is welcome, it is far too early for celebration for several reasons:

A. It is not clear that fired health care workers will be rehired.

     1. The Provincial Health Officer has no direct influence on hiring … only the ability to invoke mandates that slammed the door on a large group of people during a several-years-long declared “emergency”. Hiring is done by the health authorities. It costs her nothing to say that displaced workers are welcome to apply for their jobs again … she doesn’t have the authority to give the jobs back even if she wanted to.

     2. It gets much worse for displaced HCW’s. A three year absence from relevant work is a nearly insurmountable obstacle to being rehired or maintaining a professional license. Those who have been working in other jurisdictions without a vaxx mandate (almost everywhere else in the world at this point) can account for this time BUT those who chose to stay in BC (for family reasons, for example) may never work in their fields of expertise ever again (unless further measures are introduced to mitigate this problem).

B. The government announced a new provincial registry of private health information for hospital workers.

     1. The Health Minister tried to pass this off as just a “streamlining” of existing data collection already undertaken by the various health authorities. This is, of course, far from the truth. There is a world of difference between having one’s health information held by an employer versus being held by the government. While the former is commonplace in the medical field (though due for a critical review in my opinion), we know of no precedent for the latter.

     2. This brings into focus the question of ANY automatic collection of personal health information. The ethics here are simple: no one should have your health information without your consent. Consent can be reasonably assumed for people who are directly involved in providing medical care, but not for everyone else or for any other purpose.

C. Legislation on the fly.

     1. During the last 4 years, It was the practice in many places to speak as if one could “legislate by press conference”. Although the ’emergency’ that appeared to justify this approach is now suddenly over, this approach has not changed. Minister Dix said that he would be bringing a regulation to Cabinet “after work has been done”; this regulation would require the reporting of vaccination status. In the very next sentence, he announced – without any legal instrument – that reporting requirements would come into effect on that same day. This is not how laws should be made in any country with the basic of respect for the law itself.​

     2. While the vaccination mandate was patently against the available science on the day that it was imposed, it has become more anti-science during every one of the 33 months that have passed since that day. BC is one of the very last jurisdictions in the world to bow to this scientific reality – and that ‘bow’ looks much more like the politically-motivated and grudging ‘nod’ of a sore loser. Our work at CSSEM on behalf of health care workers in BC in far from over. History shows us that once a government takes freedoms away it is very difficult to get them back. We will update this site as more information becomes available.

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Benjamin Turner, MD, MA, FRCSC, CSSEM President

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Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine

The Judicial Review of COVID-19 Preventive Measures Concerning Health Care Workers in BC asks 2 questions:
1. Is it REASONABLE that an ongoing Public Health State of Emergency continues to be imposed in BC now that COVID-19 has become a less virulent and endemic illness?
2. Is it REASONABLE that the British Columbia PHO (Dr. Bonnie Henry) continues to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on health care workers now that scientific evidence proves that vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission?

May 10, 2024 – The JR Decision

Justice Coval released his decision concerning the Request for Judicial Review of the PHO orders and sided with the government on most counts. He did ask the PHO to review the vaccine mandates still being applied to health care workers who work remotely – a small victory for what is REASONABLE.

The judge ruled that Bonnie Henry’s decisions and mandates were reasonable in the context of the information she was given at the time (“the record”). CSSEM will send this decision to appeal!

More info here: https://www.cssem.org/

Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in Public Policy (CSASPP)

Canada (Attorney General) v. Power

29 July, 2024: Parties propose timeline for submissions on Power and Dr. Henry drops all injection mandates

Friends,

You will recall in our previous status update the invitation on 19 July, 2024, by Justice Crerar in our class proceeding to provide submissions on the recent Supreme Court of Canada’s Power ruling in the context of our certification application. The Power ruling established that, where legislation was enacted that is subsequently found by a Court to be unconstitutional, affected stakeholders may be able to pursue a claim for damages because the government does not always have absolute immunity.

Several days later on the morning of 26 July, 2024, Dr. Henry rescinded all outstanding orders made pursuant to her emergency powers. That includes injection mandates on all health care workers. Her new order took effect immediately.

The order rescinding her orders is not in itself an admission of any wrong doing. She has the statutory authority to do that.

Shortly after that on the same day we received correspondence from Dr. Henry’s counsel anticipating the parties may wish to make submissions on the rescission and how it may affect our application seeking certification. The parties prepared a mutually agreed upon letter that was sent to Justice Crerar the same day containing a copy of the order.

To avoid delaying a ruling on the certification application any longer the parties were both amenable to maintaining the existing timeline for submissions on the Power ruling and to provide submissions on the rescission at the same time, if any. The only minor alteration to the existing schedule is to move reply submissions from 15 September, 2024, to the following day of 16 September, 2024, because the 15th is a Sunday.

There are at least three theories permeating the public space on the reason for Dr. Henry’s rescission. They are all wrong.

Her stated reason was because of favourable data from wastewater testing. I will dispense with this theory for the time being. We will return to it again at trial.

The second, championed by our supporters, was that it was of our own doing. It was not due to our advocacy. Our government does not care what our organization thinks.

The third was that it was due to the apparent zealous advocacy of a political candidate and his party that are currently running for office in our upcoming October provincial election. The political candidate and his party are currently not leading in the polls. Our incumbent government is, as of this writing, projected to have an 83 % likelihood of forming a majority government. Things might change, but as of this moment there was little practical leverage that he could have applied to Dr. Henry or cabinet.

We can only speculate why she rescinded the orders, but I will provide my own theory. This was a business decision simply to cap future liability. Up until Power, for those who had been listening carefully to Crown’s oral submissions during the certification hearing, they will recall one of her core arguments: Even if the government is found at our trial to have been wrong to have declared an emergency, and therefore all measures predicated thereon, the liability would be too large. The government ought to be shielded with immunity, lest it be unable to effectively govern in the future. Absolute immunity precludes any liability, even if a finding of wrong doing is found at trial. This class proceeding should therefore not be certified.

Dr. Henry’s argument back then was only a minor variation of that presented by the federal Attorney General in Power to affirm the state’s absolute immunity – an argument that failed. It is a kind of modern papal infallibility doctrine.

The rescission had nothing to do with the testing of wastewater, anything we did, or an MLA’s advocacy or personal career ambitions. It is simply rational cost-benefit analysis in mitigating the potential risk of a finding that the declaration of an emergency was unlawful. This is a risk that our government in all likelihood believes has an astronomically low probability of being realized, but one that, if it were, would carry astronomical liability.

Governments consult with actuaries too.

Consider that damages in such a scenario could be quantified based on the amount of time the defendant caused harm. The declaration of an emergency lasted from 17 March, 2020, to 26 July, 2024, or 1,593 days. If each affected class member, say, of 3,000,000, was awarded a nominal amount of $1 a day, that would aggregate to nearly $5 billion dollars in damages.

In the mean time we will keep you apprised. As always we thank you for your continued support.

~ Kip

Get more info about these legal proceedings here https://www.covidconstitutionalchallengebc.ca/status-updates

Bonnie Henry’s Full Announcement

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