"We as Canadians need to start looking at much better leadership. And more transparency in all our institutions, whether it be educational, legal, medical, government. We need to demand more transparency, and we need to demand the inclusion of informed alternative views." Well put.
Could not agree more, but the question is how do we get there? There are a great many in this country who still think Trudeau et al did a good job navigating Canada through Covid. Sorry to say, the intelligence of our leadership is a reflection of the intelligence of the electorate. Perhaps some kind of Covid commission, with subpoena power, to publicly expose the failures and the leaders and institutions behind them might wake people up? I doubt it - the public is polarized over the pandemic fiasco and an airing of dirty laundry is unlikely to change that. I fear therefore that the only thing we learn from history is ….. we learn nothing from history.
It's easy. We start at the ballot box, and convince others to do their part by holding our leaders to account for their actions. Asking those same to form commissions to examine their own behaviour is pointless. Start at the bottom. It's the only way to enact meaningful change.
The root of the problem is that voters do not hold themselves accountable for their own actions. We get the government we deserve, a damning indictment indeed of the Canadian electorate for the last decade and, it appears, for the coming four years.
Great interview. I wanted to attend that public screening in Toronto but was out of the Country. Will definitely watch it.
This right here really grabbed my attention:
Oh, my. I wrote up a treatment, I had all my characters, and I started to approach broadcasters in Canada, who certainly know my work. It was just stone silence. One broadcaster, who shall remain nameless, was just out and out hostile. Basically saying, “Please don’t ever, ever come to me with anything like this.” So, hostility would be a polite word. It was extremely difficult to get this done. My own colleagues were pretty rude and hostile about it. It was difficult to get business affairs people, a production accountant. Even a closed captioning technician — when we were almost finished the film, they said, “No, thank you. I don’t want to touch this.”
This is utterly shameful (if not unexpected). I mean, it is one thing to foul things up - hell, people make mistakes especially in a high-stress and novel environment but what is described here compounds the original errors multiple times over. And it would be one thing to be, shall we say, benignly uninterested. But to essentially suppress efforts to learn from such a catastrophic experience is grotesque.
Is it coincidence that the result of censoring science and substituting various narratives by Those Who Know Better - especially by scientists and the governments that sponsor them - has led us to an out of control measles outbreak?
When a non-vaccinating serum paired with obligatory boosters as if a vaccine is imposed on a public with all kinds of punitive measures to demand compliance or ostracism, why should anyone treat a vaccination claimed by these same scientists and the same sponsoring governments as if this time it's a real vaccine with anything other than distrust and/or deferral?
THAT is the consequence of selling not science (based on compelling evidence from reality) but narrative-as-science (based on an imposed moral metric). And what public policy these days isn't equivalently sold on a moral metric?
The expected result is a pox on all our houses (because that's literally what we're getting in return for so many of us acting as all too willing customers of narrative framing).
So happy to read this, thank you both. I will watch the film. The arrogance of Trudeau, his grip on power, put the rest of us in a position that has become really challenging to over come, schools and small businesses in particular.
Tara, have you thought about interviewing Vanessa regarding her work on McGilchrist? His work on our brain hemispheres is incredibly interesting and relevant for today's society.
I'm so glad you interviewed Vanessa. I bought the documentary months ago. It is brilliantly done. Sadly, I cannot get my family to watch it. They are very entrenched in their belief that the 'vaccines' saved us from Covid, and the lockdowns and mandates were truly necessary. I live several provinces away now, and so it is very hard to have these conversations on Zoom or via email. Reading your Substack and seeing the comments does give me hope though, that more people are waking up.
"We as Canadians need to start looking at much better leadership. And more transparency in all our institutions, whether it be educational, legal, medical, government. We need to demand more transparency, and we need to demand the inclusion of informed alternative views." Well put.
Could not agree more, but the question is how do we get there? There are a great many in this country who still think Trudeau et al did a good job navigating Canada through Covid. Sorry to say, the intelligence of our leadership is a reflection of the intelligence of the electorate. Perhaps some kind of Covid commission, with subpoena power, to publicly expose the failures and the leaders and institutions behind them might wake people up? I doubt it - the public is polarized over the pandemic fiasco and an airing of dirty laundry is unlikely to change that. I fear therefore that the only thing we learn from history is ….. we learn nothing from history.
It's easy. We start at the ballot box, and convince others to do their part by holding our leaders to account for their actions. Asking those same to form commissions to examine their own behaviour is pointless. Start at the bottom. It's the only way to enact meaningful change.
The root of the problem is that voters do not hold themselves accountable for their own actions. We get the government we deserve, a damning indictment indeed of the Canadian electorate for the last decade and, it appears, for the coming four years.
Gotta see this film
Thank you for this. Will share widely, where I can.
Great interview. I wanted to attend that public screening in Toronto but was out of the Country. Will definitely watch it.
This right here really grabbed my attention:
Oh, my. I wrote up a treatment, I had all my characters, and I started to approach broadcasters in Canada, who certainly know my work. It was just stone silence. One broadcaster, who shall remain nameless, was just out and out hostile. Basically saying, “Please don’t ever, ever come to me with anything like this.” So, hostility would be a polite word. It was extremely difficult to get this done. My own colleagues were pretty rude and hostile about it. It was difficult to get business affairs people, a production accountant. Even a closed captioning technician — when we were almost finished the film, they said, “No, thank you. I don’t want to touch this.”
This is utterly shameful (if not unexpected). I mean, it is one thing to foul things up - hell, people make mistakes especially in a high-stress and novel environment but what is described here compounds the original errors multiple times over. And it would be one thing to be, shall we say, benignly uninterested. But to essentially suppress efforts to learn from such a catastrophic experience is grotesque.
Where can we view this film?
You can stream it here: https://covidcollateral.com
Is it coincidence that the result of censoring science and substituting various narratives by Those Who Know Better - especially by scientists and the governments that sponsor them - has led us to an out of control measles outbreak?
When a non-vaccinating serum paired with obligatory boosters as if a vaccine is imposed on a public with all kinds of punitive measures to demand compliance or ostracism, why should anyone treat a vaccination claimed by these same scientists and the same sponsoring governments as if this time it's a real vaccine with anything other than distrust and/or deferral?
THAT is the consequence of selling not science (based on compelling evidence from reality) but narrative-as-science (based on an imposed moral metric). And what public policy these days isn't equivalently sold on a moral metric?
The expected result is a pox on all our houses (because that's literally what we're getting in return for so many of us acting as all too willing customers of narrative framing).
So happy to read this, thank you both. I will watch the film. The arrogance of Trudeau, his grip on power, put the rest of us in a position that has become really challenging to over come, schools and small businesses in particular.
Tara, have you thought about interviewing Vanessa regarding her work on McGilchrist? His work on our brain hemispheres is incredibly interesting and relevant for today's society.
Thanks Susan, I don’t actually know much about McGilchrist’s work, will check it out!
I'm so glad you interviewed Vanessa. I bought the documentary months ago. It is brilliantly done. Sadly, I cannot get my family to watch it. They are very entrenched in their belief that the 'vaccines' saved us from Covid, and the lockdowns and mandates were truly necessary. I live several provinces away now, and so it is very hard to have these conversations on Zoom or via email. Reading your Substack and seeing the comments does give me hope though, that more people are waking up.