Dear OCLA Supporter,
2021 was another year of unprecedented evisceration of the civil liberties of Ontarians and Canadians. Wartime measures are being implemented without any valid scientific justification and without any end in sight. The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) will continue to oppose the ongoing removal of our civil liberties in the coming year.
The following email is to give you an update of OCLA’s work in 2021. As a reminder, OCLA has been providing fundamental analysis and criticism of Canadian governments’ egregious COVID-era measures since the beginning, as summarized in last year’s “2020 Year in Review” email.
OCLA publishes Canadian academics’ popular Open Letters
As segregation and stigmatization of “the unvaccinated” ramped up in the summer of 2021, a group of Canadian academics wrote a powerful open letter to support those who decided not to accept a COVID-19 vaccine, and asked OCLA to publish it.
The group’s “Open Letter to the Unvaccinated” was widely shared on the Internet, became the subject of several media articles, and was translated into many languages. The letter and the translations that were provided to OCLA can be found at the link here.
The group followed up with their “Open Letter to the Vaccinated” and “Open Letter to Public Health Officers” in the weeks thereafter (also published by OCLA), and many of the authors are now members of the new group Canadian Academics for Covid Ethics, which produces valuable analyses and educational materials on COVID-related subjects.
OCLA acts as original publisher of critical scientists’ research articles
Publishing scientific articles that not aligned with the establishment narrative on COVID-19 has become difficult, to say the least. Prominent examples of high-quality scientific research that has been shut out or removed from peer-reviewed publication include the work of Columbia University professor Spiro Pantazatos and Jessica Rose and Peter A. McCullough.
Accordingly, many critical scientists are choosing to publish in other venues. In 2021, OCLA was asked to publish the following research articles by Canadian and French scientists:
- 2021-09-21: “Vaccine concerns weighed against natural immunity”, by John Zwaagstra, PhD
- 2021-09-27: “Rapid appraisal of the usefulness of mRNA vaccines for SARS-COV-2 Delta variant infections and implications for Alberta” by Warren Kindzierski, PhD
- 2021-10-25: “Nature of the COVID-era public health disaster in the USA”, by Denis Rancourt, PhD, Marine Baudin, PhD, and Jérémie Mercier, PhD
Statement on Canadian government’s decision to force injections on employees and travellers
OCLA immediately condemned the Canadian government’s pre-election decision to force Canadian employees and travellers to be injected with vaccine products, after the decision was announced in mid-August.
OCLA’s statement can be read at the link here, and includes the quote:
“This is an egregious violation of fundamental rights, an assault against personal integrity and dignity, and an attack against control over one’s own body. There is no palpable reason for the injection campaign, beyond the media frenzy and constructed institutional bias surrounding COVID-19.”
As the mandate was implemented this past autumn, OCLA helped to publicize several cases in Ottawa in which non-vaccinated employees were fired or put on forced unpaid leave despite working from home and requesting medical or religious accommodations:
- 2021-11-23: “Bank of Canada data scientist placed on unpaid leave for declining vaccine” (also: media article)
- 2021-11-27: “Canadian Blood Services fires remote-working employee for declining vaccine” (also: media article)
- 2021-12-06: “Religious exemption to vaccination policy denied by Bank of Canada” (also: media article)
Call for disturbing sudden deaths in Ontario to be investigated
A surprising number of young and seemingly healthy people died suddenly in Ontario over the summer of 2021, often while engaging in physical exercise. OCLA posted excerpts from media articles about these deaths and called for them to be transparently investigated, in part due to Public Health Ontario’s data showing concerning rates of heart problems in recipients of the novel vaccine products that were widely applied and mandated in Ontario.
Letter to Health Canada calling for ban on glyphosate
In July, OCLA researcher Dr. Denis Rancourt wrote a detailed letter to the Health Canada Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) asking for the herbicide glyphosate to be banned in Canada.
The letter, entitled “Glyphosate should be banned, not increased” was submitted in response to the PMRA’s invitation for comments from the public on its proposal to increase the maximum residue limit of glyphosate on many types of crops.
There is a strong correlation between glyphosate use and the incidence and death rates for many chronic diseases. This is an area of extensive scientific research, which Dr. Rancourt reviews in his letter.
Media coverage
- 2021-01-21: “Free Speech Advocates Criticize Coming Social Media Regulations”, Epoch Times
- 2021-03-14: “Public Health, Rights, and Protest in the Age of COVID-19”, Active History
- 2021-08-10: “Vaccine Hesitancy: Showing Resilience, Integrity, and Grit”, Epoch Times
- 2021-08-26: “No Surprise: Mask Mandates Still Don’t Help Kids”, MacIver Institute
- 2021-09-16: “The Case Against Vaccine Passports”, First Things
- 2021-11-25: “Bank of Canada suspends researcher who works from home for being unvaccinated”, True North
What you can do
Thank you for being a valued contact for OCLA. Here are some suggestions for what you can do to help:
- Tell your friends and family about OCLA, and the importance of freedom, and suggest that they look at our website and join our free Newsletter list.
- Let us know about civil rights violations in Ontario, via our Contact page, here.
- Make a donation to OCLA, if you can this year.
- f you are a lawyer or paralegal, consider adding your name to our list of legal contacts, and tell us about your relevant interests.
- If you have academic research skills, consider offering some volunteer involvement.
- If you have social activist skills, and would like to get more connected with OCLA, let us know.
- Fight for freedom any way you can, and let us know about your battles.
How to stay connected and donate to OCLA
Website: https://ocla.ca
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oncivlib
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/110883345731728/
MeWe: https://mewe.com/group/5f282c504c45c17d75d6ace4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqbht2j2BPu4Wb2epM4BKw
OCLA is an independent, volunteer-run organization. Donations help cover operating costs such as booking rooms for public events, printing promotional material for campaigns and events, and paying for court filing fees and court document production costs (copies and binding) for court and tribunal interventions on civil liberties issues.
As we are an entirely volunteer-run organization with a very small budget, we do depend on donations to continue our work, and appreciate any contribution you can make.
Donations can be made in three ways:
1) Through PayPal, by clicking the “Donate” button in the top-right corner of https://ocla.ca.
2) With cryptocurrency (Bitcoin and other options) at the link here.
3) By sending a cheque to “Ontario Civil Liberties Association” to our mailing address:
Ontario Civil Liberties Association
170 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 603
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1P 5V5
OCLA is not affiliated with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) or the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA). All three associations are separate and distinct.
Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Joseph
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Joseph Hickey, PhD
Executive Director
Ontario Civil Liberties Association (ocla.ca)
