Getting the Economy One Voted For

To wit:

During the election last April, in an attempt to distance itself from former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government, the Carney campaign promised a “very different approach” to federal finances to improve Canada’s economy. Based on the experiences of past federal governments, this approach should include spending restraint, balanced budgets and debt reduction.

Unfortunately for Canadians, the Carney government is doubling down on the Trudeau government’s failed approach.

Trudeau’s legacy as prime minister is one of historically poor fiscal management. During his tenure, the federal government recorded the highest spending levels on record, which resulted in nine consecutive deficits and the highest levels of debt accumulation on record (after accounting for population changes and inflation).

Moreover, compared to the Stephen Harper and Jean Chrétien governments, the Trudeau government presided over the weakest economic performance across a variety of measures, including growth in per-person gross domestic product or GDP (a broad measure of individual living standards), private-sector job creation and per-worker business investment (which helps workers become more productive and earn higher incomes). ...

Based on this evidence, to deliver on its promise of a strong economy, the Carney government should reject the fiscal policies of Trudeau and instead emulate Chrétien’s approach. But as noted in our new study, that’s not happening.

For example, according to the Carney government’s first budget released in November, from fiscal years 2025-2026 to 2029-2030, the Carney government plans to spend $67.6 billion more than the Trudeau government planned for the same five-year period in its last fiscal update.

Combined with slower projected revenue growth, the Carney government’s higher planned spending will produce combined deficits of $321.7 billion over the five years – more than double what the Trudeau government had planned ($154.5 billion).

Consequently, the Carney government projects total federal debt will reach $2.9 trillion by 2029-2030 compared to $2.6 trillion under the Trudeau plan. Clearly, the Carney government plans to spend more, run larger deficits, and accumulate more debt than even the Trudeau government had planned. ...

For example, the government recently introduced a new “affordability” package centred around a five-year, 25% increase to the quarterly federal GST payment for eligible Canadians, along with a one-time additional GST payment equal to 50% of the normal payment. This poorly targeted package, which will send cash to many individuals who don’t need it, follows the same “affordability” strategy as the Trudeau government. And it comes with an estimated price tag of $12.4 billion.

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— Sheldon Yakiwchuk (@YakkStack) April 3, 2026

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As provincial budget season winds down nationwide, we are left with the fiscal remains of the day as estimates of budget deficits assault our senses. With the 2025-26 fiscal year wrapping up, every provincial government is reporting or expected to report a budget deficit.

For example, Ontario’s deficit came in below what was projected at only $12.3 billion, but next year’s shortfall is now larger than initially projected at $13.8 billion. As numbers go, being a few billion dollars off from year to year, given the turbulent economic times, is to be expected. After all, borrowing from C.D. Howe, in the end, what is a billion dollars these days, anyway?

Yet, deficits are only part of the story when it comes to provincial and now even federal finances because of the practice of what is termed accrual accounting with capital budgeting. Essentially, what this involves is the separation of operating and capital budgets, where the operating budget focuses on revenues minus expenses, and capital expenditures are recorded separately, with the net debt capturing the full impact of the increase in borrowing.

To put the numbers in perspective, for 2025-26, the federal government incurred a deficit of $78.3 billion but added $86.8 billion to its net debt. In the same fiscal year, the provinces collectively incurred a combined deficit of $42.1 billion but added a total of $81.4 billion to their total net debt.

While long a private sector approach, Ontario and British Columbia began the practice in the 1990s, and other provinces followed suit in the 2000s. The federal government indicated expanding its move to this type of capital budgeting in Budget 2025. ...

More to the point, the deficit includes debt charges and amortization costs of capital projects, but not the full borrowing requirements, which are shifted to the capital budget and appear in the net debt.

As a result, reported deficits are only partial deficits, with a full reporting of the amount borrowed in a given fiscal year being the sum of the operating deficit plus the additional increase in the net debt over and above the amount of the operating deficit. What this does over the long term is place an emphasis on the operating deficit when it comes to budget season and media optics, but downplays the true amount of borrowing as reported in the increase in net debt.

This is usually, conveniently, buried at the back of the budget. This creates an incentive for governments to spend and borrow more than they otherwise might have if the full size of the deficit and borrowing were more upfront.

Poor Reporting: Another Failure of the Canadian Healthcare Scheme

But ... the American system!:

A review of a decade of Ontario coroner’s reports shows the same observations cropping up again and again. Medical practitioners aren’t sharing vital information; patients aren’t being adequately monitored; and strained resources are undermining life-saving care. These circumstances can set the stage for tragedy.

(Sidebar: typical Canada. Protect the fiefdoms at all costs.) 

Between 2012 and 2022 alone, Ontario’s Office of the Chief Coroner’s Obstetric and Perinatal Death Review Committee made 458 recommendations, detailing a range of medical mishaps and missed opportunities behind 50 maternal deaths, 85 neonatal deaths and 25 stillbirths during that period.

And reporting of such repeated problems goes back even further. …

The IJB identified 17 coroner’s recommendations relating to hemorrhages in the decade ending in 2022. At least five recommendations arising from deaths in 2021 and 2022 called for standardized procedures in dealing with births involving excess bleeding.

But the problem goes back much further. For instance, 30 years ago, in 1996, an Ontario woman bled to death after giving birth, with deep lacerations in her vagina. The coroner’s jury examining her death made note of the need for timely intervention and “timely identification of estimates of blood loss.”

In 2010, an Ontario woman bled to death after giving birth. The coroner’s committee reminded care providers of the importance of assessing blood loss from postpartum hemorrhage.

In 2014, an Ontario woman bled to death giving birth after years of trying to conceive.

“Care providers poorly estimate blood loss and consistently underestimate the loss of a large volume of blood,” the coroner’s committee noted in response to her death.

The women’s home communities were not included in the reports.

Over a 20-year period from 2002 to 2022, 46 Ontario women bled to death after childbirth, comprising 27 per cent of pregnancy-related deaths during that period, according to a study published last year in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of Canada.

Problems may arise from a failure to follow practices that have been shown to work, McMaster University obstetrician and researcher Rohan D’Souza said, or there may be a delay in diagnosis. And sometimes people go into childbirth in less than ideal circumstances: for instance, maybe their hemoglobin or iron levels are not optimal.

“Postpartum hemorrhage in itself is not always preventable … but death and serious complications from postpartum hemorrhage are always preventable,” D’Souza said.

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The IJB found Canadian women are dying preventable pregnancy-related deaths and experiencing other adverse effects in childbirth. And Canada is bad at tracking maternal deaths. In fact, while data show a doubling in the maternal mortality rate for the decade ending in 2024, many experts think that reflects improvements in record-keeping rather than a dramatic rise in deaths.

Deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or following childbirth remain rare, but the IJB investigation shows health providers are missing opportunities to improve childbirth outcomes.

Canada is behind high-income European countries in tackling the “big three” leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality: post-partum hemorrhage, hypertension and sepsis, says McMaster University obstetrician and researcher Rohan D’Souza.

“The deaths from these causes are completely preventable,” he says. “It’s about access. It’s about equity.” ...

 

(Sidebar: equity? As in other people are dying of blood loss?)

We do not have an ability in Canada to learn the lessons of our errors in a systemic, national way.

Damn right.

Because Canada.

An Eastertide Post

 

We cannot live without purpose.

We cannot defend Western Civilisation with mere feelings that change on a whim.

We need a bedrock of values that shape, guide and lead us to where we need to be:

This Passover matters more than ever before. We are reminded that in every generation, an enemy rises to threaten our freedom.

This year, and since October 7, we’ve been confronting multiple enemies. In the past, threats have been siloed against geographical centers, for example, Egypt, Spain and Germany. Today, the threat against the Jewish world is globalized.

This Passover, we are not merely retelling ancient history, we are living it in every moment as our synagogues are shot at, our children are targeted on school campuses and the media disproportionately targets Israel.

The Passover story is grounded in oppression, slavery and, certainly, in antisemitism. It is a living mandate for the Jewish people passed on from one generation to the next. Yes, we were slaves in Egypt. But more importantly, we were liberated by taking matters into our own hands. The Exodus is not just about what happened, but what is happening right now. Antisemitism is meant to keep us down — to make us feel inferior, marginalized and oppressed.

Our fight against our tormentors is international. With the exception of Israel — the one Jewish state — we are a small minority in every other place in which we live. But if we have survived slavery, inquisitions and the Holocaust, history predicts we will prevail, while our enemies will be vanquished. The Mullahs in Iran, and their proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen are paying a heavy price for coming after Israel. Like the Egyptians in the story of Passover, they are being pummeled and punished relentlessly to stop targeting us.

The Haggadah — the story read over Passover — shows we cannot wait passively for liberation. We cannot follow, endure, and expect the world around us to be righteous. It’s not. We are obligated to act proactively and defensively against our tormentors, especially those like Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran who rise to destroy us. This fight is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. There is no room for fatigue. Our enemies should know that our courage is inherited from our ancestors.

Because we have been slaves. Because we have been forced to convert or flee our homes. And because we were brought to near extinction as six million of our brothers and sisters were murdered, we never take freedom for granted. It’s not a gift. Our freedom today, here in Canada, and in the West, must be defended and protected.

The dangers of division, identity politics and moral confusion threaten to weaken our shared foundation. Democracy is under threat. Our institutions and even political parties are being strategically undermined and hijacked. Did you see the Palestinian flag on the stage at the NDP convention as its new leader, Avi Lewis, made his acceptance speech? The Canadian flag was nowhere to be seen when it should have been front and centre. No matter your political views, this should be a wake-up call for Canadians who care about our future.

We are living in a new era. The hatred of Jews is more sophisticated and globalized. Technology has transmitted more antisemitic material to naïve recipients than Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels could have even dreamt about. The Jews of Egypt may have been alone, without allies, as were the majority of Jews in Europe during the Holocaust, but not today, in case you haven’t noticed.

Our friends and allies recognize that the story of Passover is also a human story. They know that the same forces that targeted Jews then and now also challenge the very principles which democratic societies are built upon today. We see this now as Iran’s continued efforts to destabilize the region are also threatening global security and the international order. The chaos bad actors create often begins with one targeted people, but it rarely ends there.

Passover calls for true solidarity among the righteous and moral. In ancient days, G-d “passed over” the good and punished the evil (hence the name, Passover). So too, even while evil has globalized, people of goodwill are connecting around the world in defiance. They are coming together in solidarity to stand against evil. Many understand that an attack on one community, is an attack on us all. Good always prevails.

This is our generation’s test. The story of Passover is not only about freedom won — it is about freedom defended. And in our time, that responsibility belongs to each of us.

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Across Canada, the U.S. and parts of Europe, Catholic leaders are musing on possible factors — the effects of the end of pandemic isolation, migrants’ search for cultural links to a new land, young people’s quest for meaning, and the value of online introductions to various faiths.

This weekend, the Vancouver Catholic archdiocese will take in a record number of new members: 666. That is up from last year’s previous high of 571.

(Sidebar: that's a strange number.) 

Most converts will follow tradition and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church on the evening before Easter Sunday, when they will be baptized, confirmed, and receive their first Eucharist.

Similar trends are occurring across Canada and the U.S., where the Roman Catholic Church remains the largest Christian denomination.

The Toronto archdiocese will accept a record 1,823 new members this Easter. In Edmonton, the church will welcome 300 catechumens, the term for unbaptized people who want to fully incorporate into the church. In Montreal, the figure is 240, the highest in decades.

The New York Times recently reported on the unexpected numbers of people converting to Catholicism in the U.S., after decades of decline. The Detroit archdiocese is taking in 1,428 converts, for instance, and Newark, New Jersey, is welcoming 1,701.

Cardinals are delighted, while also acknowledging they are stymied. Normally, according to Pew Research, fewer than one in 10 North American Catholics converted as adults.

In France, where the Catholic Church has also been struggling, some are talking of “a quiet revival”. More than 10,000 French adults converted last year, according to the church. That figure is expected to rise this year. Similar trends, although more modest, are being reported in Britain, Norway and Sweden.

After settling into Canada as a citizen about five years ago, and struggling with depression during his teen years, Mottahed was struck by the ethnic, religious and cultural diversity he found on the UBC campus.

In the end, after a foray into evangelical Protestantism, Mottahed learned about Catholicism by watching online videos and podcasts, as well as meeting church members through Catholic Christian Outreach. With more than a dozen others, he has been studying Catholicism with Rev. Bruce-John Hamilton, the priest at Corpus Christi, preparing for Saturday’s baptism ceremony.

“I really like the reverential services (of Catholicism),” he said. “I like it more than the drums and guitars and all that in evangelical services.”

In addition to finding theological “arguments for Catholicism stronger than those for Protestantism,” Mottahed said he simply felt called by God toward baptism this weekend at the “massive” parish on Nanaimo Street and 48th Avenue.

The archdiocese of Vancouver highlights other stories of young people coming to Catholicism this weekend.

That has particularly been the case, according to North American clergy, since the pandemic ended. COVID had caused many people, old and young, to stay away from public worship. To escape isolation, some have been eager to join a Catholic community.

“An anecdotal trend that our coordinators are also reporting in Vancouver are the higher number of young people (in their 20s and 30s) who have expressed interest in Catholicism,” said Matthew Furtado, a spokesman for the archdiocese.

“Some have attributed this to the abundance of high-quality online Catholic resources and content that allow someone to research and explore faith on their own before inquiring at their local parish.”

Furtado highlighted the journey of young Canadian professionals Raveen Kumaran, from Malaysia, and Sammi Lu, from China, who have now found their way to Catholicism.

The archdiocese’s website describes how Kumaran and his wife sensed how their different national backgrounds “felt harmonized” at downtown Vancouver’s Holy Rosary Cathedral. The couple, who recently had a baby, have visited the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

In recent years, the worldwide Catholic Church, which for a year has been led by an American, Pope Leo XIV, has strongly supported migrants, particularly asylum seekers — which is helping make the church attractive to newcomers.

There are 10.8 million Catholics in Canada, according to the last census — and more than one in five are foreign-born. That includes 534,000 from the Philippines, 245,000 from Latin America, 75,000 from China and other parts of East Asia, as well as 37,000 from Arabian countries.

In Toronto, archdiocese director Michelle Brylowski said, “Canada’s huge influx of immigration has made it possible for many people who have come from countries that are hostile to the Christian faith to finally enter the church without fear of persecution.”

Now, about that:

The House of Commons has passed Bill C-9, known as the “Combatting Hate Act,” at third reading. The bill now moves to the Senate.

TDF strongly opposed this legislation and publicly warned that it would criminalize lawful religious expression. Despite our objections and those of other civil liberties and religious groups, the bill has now passed third reading.

What Bill C-9 Changes

The bill makes three major changes to Canada’s Criminal Code that significantly expand the scope of “hate speech” offences:

1. Codifies definition of “hatred”
   The bill incorporates the concept of “hatred” as “vilification and detestation.” Courts have struggled to provide consistent, unambiguous implementation and analysis of this concept. 
   
   
2. Removes religious speech protection
   The Criminal Code previously contained a religious defence to protect religious expression and debate: no one could be convicted of willful promotion of hatred if they were expressing, in good faith, an opinion on a religious subject or opined on a belief in a religious text. Bill C-9 removes this religious defence. This leaves pastors, priests, rabbis, imams, and ordinary believers vulnerable to prosecution for publicly teaching or discussing traditional religious beliefs.
   
   
3. Easier to lay charges
   While the bill still requires the Attorney General's consent before some hate crime charges can be brought, the new "hate-motivated" offence does not require such consent. This will make it easier for prosecutors to lay an additional "hate-motivated" charge where they simply allege that hatred was a motivating factor. TDF lawyers have seen the Crown allege "hatred" in cases where very little evidence exists.

Taken together, these changes dramatically increase the risk that churches, pastors, and religious individuals will face criminal charges for publicly expressing sincerely held religious views.

Happy Easter!

 

What are we to make of Christ?’ There is no question of what we can make of Him, it is entirely a question of what He intends to make of us. You must accept or reject the story. 

(CS Lewis, God in the Dock, chapter nineteen)

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week April fool ...

Speaking of fools:

On March 16, the renowned Study of the Canadian Consumer revealed that “Nearly half of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque” and that “a growing number of Canadians say they’re barely staying afloat.” 

Unfortunately, even though job markets and ‘life-chances’ have unequivocally collapsed and evaporated throughout all of Canada, it is evident that the degenerate state of the Canadian nation has expanded well beyond the looming outbreak of abject poverty.

In fact, it is clear that the past decade of Liberal government has imploded the foundations of Canadian society and transformed the Canadian nation into a failing state.

Firstly, Canada’s economy has been utterly decimated by the past decade of Liberal government and its vain efforts to “[rely] on immigration to drive economic growth and plug labour gaps.” 

For example, since 2015, Canada’s GDP per capita has collapsed, and its economy has consistently teetered on the precipice of a major recession. In fact, the Liberal government has enthusiastically cultivated “the single worst performing economy of all 38 [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] OECD members,” and the Fraser Institute itself has declared that Canadians are currently being forced to endure “the longest decline in individual living standards of the last 40 years.”

In addition, Canada’s unemployment rate has now “jump[ed] to a nine-year high” and, since 2019, food bank usage in Canada has increased by nearly 100%. Worse still, 33% of “food bank clients” in Canada are now children, and the most recent Child and Family Poverty Report Card has been forced to concede that “progress toward eliminating child poverty is not only stalling but reversing … it would take nearly 400 years to end child poverty in the country.”

Moreover, public safety in Canada has collapsed throughout the Liberal era, as a result of the Liberal government’s ‘catch-and-release’ justice system and constant desire to ingratiate itself with particular minorities within its voter base.

For instance, since 2015, violent crime has soared by over 30% throughout the Canadian nation, and Canada’s Violent Crime Severity Index has “increased considerably in every province and nearly every major city over the last decade.” Furthermore, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) itself recently confirmed that “hardly a day passes without a heartbreaking story of some violent crime in at least one of Canada’s major cities” and that Canada has been inundated with “a surge in violent crime across every province.” 

Sadly, the sexual assault rate in Canada has also surged dramatically throughout “all 20 Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA), with some CMAs experiencing a doubling of sexual assault rates in ten years.” In fact, at the 2025 Calgary Stampede, the Calgary Police Service (CPS) actually issued a public announcement in various foreign languages, such as Punjabi and Arabic, in an effort to curb the pandemic of violent crime and sexual assault that now plagues so many diverse communities and abodes throughout Canada.

Finally, Canada’s social fabric and democracy have been sent asunder, due to the fact that the Liberal Party has repeatedly violated Canada’s laws and flagrantly abused the Canadian nation’s fundamental democratic processes, in order to suppress any politics and ideology that contradict its own ‘progressive’ agenda.

For example, since 2015, left-wing extremism has become endemic throughout Canadian society, and radical liberal ideology has become a constant feature of Canada’s political ecosystem and news media landscape. Furthermore, Canadian society has become violently polarized and plagued by democratic backsliding. In fact, the Democracy Project itself has explicitly reaffirmed that Canada’s “democracy is suffering” and that “political disagreements are spilling over into real interpersonal conflict.” 

Even the foundational political cornerstones and cubits of Canadian society, such as Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, have recently become supremely malleable under the auspices of the Liberal government. In fact, in 2023, Canada’s democracy deteriorated so severely that it summarily collapsed the ‘Democracy Index’ for all of North America and “for the first time since the launch of the Democracy Index in 2006, western Europe [overtook] North America to become the highest-scoring region in the world…” 

Unfortunately, it is evident that the past decade of Liberal government has forced the Canadian state to endure a national decline and collapse that exceeds the confines of mere poverty.

In fact, it is clear that the past decade of Liberal government has imploded the foundations of Canadian society and transformed the Canadian nation into a failing state.

More importantly, it is readily apparent that Canada’s Laurentian government will soon damage the Canadian state beyond repair and force a cohort of beleaguered provinces, such as Alberta, Quebec, and Saskatchewan, to choose between a rapidly fracturing Canada and annexation by the US.

Alas, nearly half of all Canadian youths have already recognized the truth: There is no future in Canada.

But, you know, elbows up.

Being a Liberal means never having to even admit that China uses slave labour:

Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday would not say whether he believes China uses slave labour. It followed cabinet’s announcement of “a new foreign policy” that encourages Canadians to get to know the People’s Republic: “Do you believe there is forced labour in China?”

Or secret police?:

Carney’s “Economic and Trade Cooperation Roadmap” with Beijing binds Canada to limitless Chinese acquisitions in energy and agriculture. And the RCMP is now bound to a formal collaboration with Beijing’s dreaded Ministry of Public Security, which is notorious for its rigid enforcement of ideological conformity and persecution of pro-democracy elements from Hong Kong to Xinjiang and from Shanghai to Tibet.

Look, China, we all know what is really happening.

Just stop.

It's only food:

Our data shows that 34% of households have drawn from savings or taken on debt just to put food on the table over the past year. That is not a marginal statistic — it is a structural sign. It suggests that food affordability is no longer being managed through simple budget adjustments. It is now eroding financial resilience.

Canadians are adapting, but not necessarily in ways we should be comfortable with.

Nearly half of respondents — 44.4% — say they are seeking out more sales and discounts. Another 23.7% are spending more time searching online for better prices, while 23.3% report using more coupons. About 23.2% are switching to cheaper stores altogether.

These are not minor adjustments. They represent a fundamental shift in how Canadians shop for food.

Also - how can this go wrong?:

City council approved a pilot project late Thursday, proposed by Councillor Anthony Perruzza, that calls for four city-run grocery stores. His hope is that if the stores “forgo” profits and get a break on property taxes, Torontonians can buy good food for less.

Trust the useless mama's boy to handle anti-semitic crime:

New Democrat leader Avi Lewis yesterday said he will be “clear and consistent in my position” on alleged Israeli genocide and claims of a powerful Jewish lobby in Canada. Jews expressed alarm over Lewis’ election Sunday: “The NDP has become a hostile place for the vast majority of Jewish Canadians.”

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Police-reported hate crimes against Jews increased in 2024 even as the rate overall remained “relatively stable,” Statistics Canada data showed yesterday. New figures followed testimony at parliamentary hearings that Canada had normalized anti-Semitism to the point it was “casual, even fashionable.”

Also:

A federal judge has faulted Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne for disobeying a Court order in a tax case. The Minister’s office and Canada Revenue Agency failed to comply with a 2025 order to disclose emails and memos regarding treatment of a Jewish charity: “Orders of the Court must be obeyed.”

But ... don't you care about the indigenous?:

Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight is delaying release of records sought by MPs regarding millions in unpaid benefits for Métis veterans of the Second World War. A $30 million fund approved by Parliament paid only a fraction to old soldiers, sailors and air crew: “It is difficult.”

Like digging?

Watch these particular floodgates open:

What "taking back control of immigration" looks like: Under Bill C-3, anyone who can find a Canadian in their family tree is considered Canadian.

Here's an example of a person whose last Canadian ancestor was born in 1835, nearly 200 years ago. Approval took 3 weeks. https://t.co/8SwZ9qFq4u pic.twitter.com/nfwxAF4viG

— Jamie Sarkonak (@sarkonakj) March 27, 2026

This isn't a cause for concern, right?:

As many as 1,000 former members of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps may be embedded across Canada — and posing an urgent security threat to the US, experts told The Post.

Canada’s liberal government isn’t doing nearly enough to address the problem, Michelle Rempel Garner, a member of the opposition and the “shadow minister” for immigration, told The Post.

“It’s a huge problem,” she said. “That’s not just a concern for our country, it’s a concern for our security partners and allies.”

All this time, everyone was told that it was safe:

PFIZER’S former chief toxicologist said vital safety tests were not carried out before their covid jab was rolled out to billions and that mass vaccination caused ‘widespread harm’.

He also said no proper checks were done to see whether it could cause cancer due to ‘time constraints’, and tests to check its impact on pregnancy and fertility were inadequate. He suggested this has led to fertility issues in Europe and other vaccinated countries.

Last week, Dr Helmut Sterz, who led Pfizer’s European toxicology centres between 2001 and 2007, and is author of the book, The Vaccine Mafia: Pfizer’s former chief toxicologist shows how toxic substances were unlawfully sold to us as remedies against Covid‑19, gave a highly critical deposition to Germany’s pandemic inquiry, the German Bundestag (federal parliament) Corona Enquete-Kommission (formal inquiry).

He said: ‘The carcinogenic risk was not investigated due to time constraints. Incidentally, I find it very concerning and also regrettable that no alternative investigations were carried out.

‘We observe in Germany, but also in many other countries, that the birth rate collapsed after the vaccination campaign.’

Pfizer-BioNTech were obligated to test for the effects of their Comirnaty mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, but took no lessons from the thalidomide catastrophe, and did not do proper tests.

Dr Sterz said: ‘A rat study for Comirnaty was conducted inadequately, so no reliable estimates of the vaccine’s effect on pregnancy or subsequent development were possible.’

Pfizer’s official preclinical reproductive toxicity study tested just 44 female rats for fertility and developmental effects and 24 male rats for reproductive effects and sperm health. The study was also allegedly flawed.

Germany’s public health authority, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), sacrificed rigorous testing and focused on fast-tracking the jab. Dr Sterz said: ‘This meant that essential toxicity studies were sacrificed to speed, without acceptable justifications. I know of no case with a comparable indication in which all these studies were omitted.

‘The approval led to prohibited human experiments.’

The RKI had internally noted that side effects and vaccine injury should only be examined after market introduction, which seems extraordinary for an experimental product intended to be injected into billions of people.

There is now published data that includes 4,551 scientific publications that document adverse effects caused by mRNA covid vaccines.

Pfizer’s post-marketing report spoke of over 200 suspected death cases within just two months of approval. ‘Comirnaty should have been taken off the market then,’ Dr Sterz said.

He added. ‘The Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI is Germany’s main authority for vaccines and biomedicines) has so far received 2,133 reports of deaths after Comirnaty.’

Underreporting meant that the real number was much higher. In the USA underreporting is estimated to be a factor of 30. ‘For Germany that would correspond to 60,000 deaths from the vaccination’, he said.

If the German health authority had complied with regulations, Comirnaty should not have been approved at all, he concluded.

The vaccine injured in the UK struggle to receive compensation; German citizens face the same issues. Dr Sterz said: ‘Currently, many vaccine-injured people in Germany are fighting for compensation payments — and they often lose because the courts say Comirnaty has a positive benefit-risk ratio.

‘This assumption is not justified. Comirnaty was not even investigated in clinical development for the prevention of severe illness or death. The Pfizer documents therefore do not allow any recognition of a positive benefit-risk ratio at all.

‘The mathematician Robert Rockenfeller from the University of Koblenz estimates that for every severe covid case that Comirnaty allegedly prevented, 25 severe side effects occurred.

‘Mortality rose significantly in 2021 and 2022 compared to 2020. With a positive benefit-risk ratio, mortality should have decreased.’

He also confirmed that the jab that was rolled out was different to the one that received approval. He was asked whether the public received ‘the active substance that Pfizer tested in the shortened emergency approval procedure.’

He replied. ‘No. For the clinical testing before approval, a highly pure substance was used. It was too expensive for mass production.

It was never about a virus.

Once a country reaches this point of cruelty, there is no going back:

Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old Spanish woman, died by euthanasia yesterday. Spanish law allows citizens over 18 with ‘chronic or invalidating suffering’ to receive assisted dying. Ramos, whose short life was one of unimaginable difficulty, certainly fitted the criteria. 

After her parents’ separation, at age 13, Noelia was placed in the care of the Catalan government. While living in care, she was raped by her ex-boyfriend in her sleep. In 2022, she was gang raped by three boys – an event she described as a turning point in her life. Later that year, Noelia attempted to end her life by overdosing on medication. After that failed, she jumped from a fifth-floor window. The fall left her paraplegic and in constant pain. In 2024, her request to be euthanised was approved. ‘I want to go now and stop suffering, period’, she told the Spanish TV programme, Y Ahora Sonsoles.

When Noelia’s father, Geronimo Castillo, found out his daughter had been approved for an assisted death, he went to court to try to overturn the decision. He argued that his daughter’s poor mental health – she had been receiving psychiatric help and was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder – was impacting her ability to make an informed decision. The Spanish justice system considers murderers to have diminished responsibility if they are suffering from mental-health issues, but it seems this does not apply to those seeking an assisted death. Castillo’s 18-month legal battle ended in failure in March, when the European Court of Human Rights gave the green light for his daughter to be euthanised. The procedure went ahead yesterday.

The tragedy of Noelia Castillo Ramos ought to deeply unsettle us. It shows what happens when we respond to suicidal despair by affirming it – by saying to a young woman that she is right to want to end her life – instead of resisting it. Proponents of assisted dying say it is kinder to grant death in the face of immense suffering than to insist that someone keep on living. But to abandon vulnerable people at their lowest ebb is not compassion at all – it is to give up on a person who has given up on themselves.

What makes this case particularly troubling is not only the tragedy of a young woman’s premature death, but also the precedent it sets for others like her. It says that if you have faced abuse, if you are depressed or have a disability, that your life is not worth living. The state would prefer to assist you to die than to help you recover or to live as full a life as possible.

Where are the "safe, legal and rare" people on this?