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REPORT OF THE C VID COMMISSION JUNE 5, 2023 - A fictional, futuristic description of

11 May 2022

The Memorandum of Understanding defining the Commission’s Terms of Reference directed it to maintain a national perspective and to focus its inquiry primarily on the mismanagement of the response to the pandemic by the federal government, without denying that much mismanagement of the COVID response also occurred at the provincial and municipal levels. [...] And the Commission was specifically directed to expeditiously address the 16 questions pertaining to the federal government’s management of the COVID crisis which had been raised by the Leader of the Official Opposition in seeking the support of the House for an investigative Royal Commission. [...] And why would the federal government invoke the Emergencies Act—a statute rooted in the draconian War Measures Act and a move of questionable legality opposed by nine of the ten provinces—to end a peaceful demonstration by the truckers and their supporters when the simplest and most obvious way to end the protest was to cancel the vaccine mandates which the government was eventually obliged to can. [...] Several major think tanks at the request of the Commission, and the research offices of the Library of Parliament at the request of the Official Opposition, painstakingly assembled hundreds of statements made by federal officials including cabinet ministers describing the science which purportedly guided the federal government’s management of the COVID crisis. [...] In the sobering words of the Chief Commissioner: “The hypocrisy, cowardice, and deceitfulness, shown by the highest representatives of the federal government in relation to the Freedom Convoy did more than any other government action to undermine public confidence in the federal government’s management of the COVID pandemic.” Throughout the public hearing phase of the Commission’s work, Commission.
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