Category Archives: OCLA Opinion Statements

OCLA’s submission to the Public Order Emergency Commission

OCLA strenuously opposed the Canadian government’s February 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act to quash peaceful protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. OCLA has submitted the following letter and package of documents to the Public Order Emergency Commission, pursuant to its … Continue reading

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OCLA Statement on CMAJ Fisman et al. Article Claiming Disproportionate Infection Risk from Unvaccinated Population, and on Negligent Media Reporting

(A PDF version of this statement is available here) (Une traduction en français de cette déclaration est disponible ici) Update: A condensed version of this statement has been published as a Letter to the Editor on CMAJ’s website (here) The recently … Continue reading

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OCLA Calls on MPs to Reject the Use of the Emergencies Act to Crush Peaceful Protest at Parliament Hill

The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) sent the following email today to Canadian Members of Parliaments and Senators. A PDF of the email can be read at the link here. Dear Member of Parliament, There is no national emergency caused … Continue reading

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OCLA Statement on the Government’s Use of the Emergencies Act

The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) condemns the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act) to dispel peaceful protests in Canada. Peaceful protest and civil disobedience are essential in a democratic society – without these … Continue reading

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OCLA Statement on Analysis of Batch-Specific Toxicity of COVID-19 Vaccine Products using VAERS Data

The question of potential batch-specific toxicity of COVID-19 vaccine products is an important one that merits careful investigation. Indeed, history shows that dangerous “hot lots” have existed for past vaccine products. However, researchers investigating this topic should be wary of … Continue reading

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Sudden deaths in Ontario should be investigated

@ScienceGuruMam has started a thread on Twitter listing names of young and seemingly healthy people who have died suddenly in Ontario over the past few months, often while engaging in physical exercise. These deaths should be transparently investigated given Public Health … Continue reading

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Statement on new Canadian government proposal to force injections on employees and travellers

(This statement is available as a PDF at the link here.) The Ontario Civil Liberties Association opposes the Canadian government proposal to force employees and travellers to be injected with vaccine products. This is an egregious violation of fundamental rights, … Continue reading

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Amazon’s Deplatforming of Ezra Levant’s China Virus Book is Wrong

The Ontario Civil Liberties Association has received documentation from Ontario lawyer Aaron Rosenberg showing that Amazon interfered with and repeatedly deplatformed his client’s book. The book is “China Virus: How Justin Trudeau’s Pro-Communist Ideology is Putting Canadians in danger”, by … Continue reading

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OCLA Recommends Civil Disobedience Against Mandatory Masking

(Available as a PDF here.) Municipal governments and authorities in Ontario are arbitrarily imposing face masks in the general population, without any reliable scientific basis, and in contradiction of the precautionary principle. There are significant anticipated harms from the widespread use … Continue reading

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OCLA opposes the international campaign to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism

The OCLA endorses the recently expressed position of the BCCLA. Whereas the OCLA and the BCCLA (and the CCLA) are distinct and separate organizations, the OCLA nonetheless also opposes the international campaign to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) … Continue reading

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