This should be headlines all over Canada and the world!

"No evidence for covid measures" says Auditor General New Brunswick, Canada

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Province Had No Evidence For Their Covid Measures

Brian Peckford
Former Premier Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
Dec 18.23

When I asked the Premiers to refer their measures to their highest court, the Premier of New Brunswick was the only one who responded to say they would do their own study. I should acknowledge that this Premier looks like he got something right on the COVID thing —or did the AG do this on his own?

What I have been saying about there being no cost benefit analysis to ‘demonstrably justify ‘ violating the Charter of Right and Freedoms has been vindicated. 

Will other Provinces come clean? Will other Provincial AG’s do what this AG has done?

Quoting from a Victoria Times Colonist article of December 14 referring to a Canadian Press Report:

‘In his report presented to the legislature Thursday, Paul Martin said the office of the chief medical officer was unable to provide him with scientific articles, papers, publications and analyses it used to formulate many COVID-19-related recommendations that informed the provincial government’s health orders.’

The article went on to say: ‘The Health Department said that because it lacked those documents, it “cannot provide a fulsome and detailed list of all of the evidence consulted and used when recommendations were being formulated,” Martin said in his report.’

This should be headlines all over Canada !!!!!

The AG was asked whether people should be concerned at such lack of evidence based decision making. He replied 

‘When it comes to this type of situation, the pandemic, there’s got to be accountability beyond the norms here,” Martin said in response. “And I would hope they would move towards that direction in the future to have those improvements set up in case this happens again.”

Martin said he is “always surprised” when people don’t keep documentation about health-related decisions. 

“If a doctor is overseeing any person or meeting with a person, they keep their files, they keep their notes … there’s a file, there is evidence. I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be there in this case.” 

An initial report from Martin on the province’s COVID-19 response, released in September, found that New Brunswick did not learn lessons from the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. He said the province’s pandemic plans were not updated with recommendations from the provincial government’s 2009 report on the H1N1 crisis.

Last month, the province’s outgoing chief medical health officer, Dr. Jennifer Russell, said “political preferences” helped inform the decisions that were made during the COVID-19 pandemic, although she did not elaborate on them.’

All the Provinces of Canada and the Territories need an independent look —-and do you think it is only New Brunswick that made decisions without sound scientific evidence?

People have died, people injured, jobs lost, economic hardship endured —as a result of delayed diagnosis , delayed surgeries because of COVID decisions without scientific evidence ——not to mention the deaths from the experimental vaccines where it is a scientific fact that the COVID vaccines saw more adverse events in 3 years that all vaccines did in the last 30 years. 

Heads should begin to roll all over Canada !!!

https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/vindicated-wow-new-brunswicks-auditor-general-tells-the-truth-province-had-no-evidence-for-their-covid-measures/

New Brunswick’s Political Leaders Initiate Legislative Inquiry On Results Of Damning Auditor General’s Report On Covid Management

Dec 19.23

Premier Blaine Higgs MA
Leader of The New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party

Susan Holt MLA
Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party 

David Coon MLA
Leader of The New Brunswick Green Party 

Dear Leaders :

I have been made aware of the Auditor General’s Report requested by the Legislature on Mach 31, 2022 on the performance of the Government in the management of the response to the so called Covid Pandemic covering the period April  1, 2020 to March 31, 2022. 

I applaud the Legislature for seeing that this audit was initiated.

Having been alerted to the report by a Canadian Press Report and having since scanned parts of Volume 11 presented just a few days ago to the Legislature, I must express my shock on the many findings that have found very inadequate responses by the various Government Departments. 

I wish now briefly to focus on the audit of the lead Department , The Department of Health . The summary of findings page 51–Section 4.13 states :

“technology was lacking and data was not always used to support staffing-level decisions while various performance targets were established, outcomes were not consistently monitored, tracked or used for decision-making, there was inconsistent record keeping and documentation pertaining to infection and prevention control decisions, there was a lack of established criteria to support decision outcomes related to exemption requests escalated to the Chief Medical Officer of Health”

Further on many statements stand out. For example, 

4.26 —An overall theme of our findings was that while data was available, it was not always used, analyzed, and reported upon in order to effectively support key decisions. Antiquated technologies, paper-based records, quick turn around times, and staff shortages were some of the contributing factors to this gap.

This is accentuated by :

 4.77 Our office selected a sample of 33 OCMOH ( Office of the Chief Medical Officer Of Health) recommendations and asked the Department to provide evidence-based documentation to substantiate the decisions. The Department was unable to provide requested documentation, acknowledging that they “did not create a compendium or a repository of all of the scientific articles, papers, publications and analyses it consulted during the pandemic and therefore we cannot provide a fulsome and detailed list of all of the evidence consulted and used when recommendations were being formulated.”

The AG had an appendix of how well previous recommendations of  his 2019 report were implemented. Sadly only 55%  have been implemented:

“A detailed review found that 55% of our recommendations from 2019 audits have been implemented.” 

The AG in his Volume 1 Report in September demonstrated how the Province had not learned from the 2009 H1N1 Influenza report with its recommendations.

Now, what is crucial here is not only has the public service demonstrated incompetence but in so doing caused the actions of the Government to violate our Constitution. Many decisions were made which violated the rights and freedoms of citizens since the lack of evidence based decision making means that the requirement of demonstrably justify, key to satisfying Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was not met. Not only not met but there was no cost benefit analysis of any kind performed on any of the Government’s actions. Furthermore, the opening framework principles of the Charter were ignored.  

Your Legislature now has the immense task to initiate action to bring accountability to what has happened; to lead the way in Canada to re-establish our democracy and make our Parliaments the masters of our governance.

Leaders , this will not go away. 

Lives have been lost and injured by poor Government decision making , freedoms violated, rights abused, ignoring independent science and violating the Constitutional rights and freedoms of the citizens of our country.

You took the first courageous step, your AG was honest, now based on his findings you need to complete the job.  

Canada is watching. What you do will have enormous repercussions on the future of democracy in our country.

Honorable A. Brian Peckford P.C.
The Only Living First Minister Who Is A Signatory To The Patriation Agreement of 1981 -The Foundation Document of The Constitution Act 1982  Which Includes The Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Continued at

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Without prejudice and without recourse
Doreen Agostino
Our Greater Destiny Blog
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