If you rely on mainstream media for news, you might be forgiven for being totally unaware of the recent Allison Inquiry in Ottawa, as it’s been virtually ignored by the press not only here in Britain, but even in Canada. Whether, in 2026, you should be forgiven for relying on mainstream media is another matter. Willful ignorance, as the Book of Proverbs points out, has a moral dimension.
Basically, the inquiry was intended to give a voice to 1400+ marginalised victims of the “safe and effective” COVID vaccines, or rather the inadequately tested novel genetic therapies re-branded as vaccines. It was the initiative of one Canadian MP, Dean Allison, a Conservative representing Niagara West, and of a lawyer named Shawn Buckley. One should not, however, forget their respective wives, who were also instrumental in making it happen, against the kind of opposition that we’ve come to expect since 2020. Remember the boycotting, by all parties, of Andrew Bridgen’s attempts to introduce the subject of vaccine damage in our House of Commons, and his consequent un-personing.
The testimonies are available on YouTube, and I confess I only watched a few, as I find them pretty harrowing. This is not so much because of the medical details – I am after all a retired clinician – but because the repeated accounts of disbelief and rejection by family, friends and “caring agencies” reopened psychological wounds of my own, that I wasn’t fully aware were so deep.
To realise how little one’s professional knowledge and personal wisdom are, in the breech, not only ignored but actively disparaged by those closest to you, by Christian brethren, and by your professional peers, is actually very damaging. There are very few left that one knows one can trust, and that bitter lesson rumbles on long after the epidemic disappears in the dustbin of history. The loss of trust is not helped by the pan-societal failure of anyone, ever, to apologise, though the lab-leak conspiracy theory becomes established fact, the web of deceit revolving around Anthony Fauci turns out to be a true conspiracy, not fancy, and of course as a stream of scientific studies confirms the stuff only a few of us dared to say five or six years ago.
How much more traumatic, then, must it be for those souls whose marginalisation is written in their damaged bodies and brains, in loss of livelihoods and even of social benefits (vaccine damage never being real, you see). I felt particularly for victims like nurses, who as well as their injuries had to cope with total disillusionment with the professions to which they had dedicated their lives. One of these told how even the psychiatrist she saw refused to discuss the clear causal role of the mRNA shots in her “post-traumatic disorder.”
The Inquiry included, also, some expert evidence demonstrating the massive, sudden, and easily demonstrable spikes in many conditions, including cancers, following the vaccine roll-out (and not the coronavirus itself). This testimony also demonstrated how the official public denials of any effects of the vaccines other than preventing infection were made in the knowledge of an increasing death-toll and mounting evidence of their ineffectiveness. Their strange excuse of “avoiding vaccine hesitancy” hints at the scarcely-explored religious cult of vaccination we seem to have bought into.
I was also impressed by the account of an ex-CBC journalist, Rodney Hill. As soon as he heard the way the (supposed) pandemic was being presented in the media, he immediately recognised from his training and experience that it was not bottom-up reporting, but top-down propaganda. In fact, he compared the techniques employed by Western governments to North Korea rather than Soviet Russia, in the way that they not only lied pervasively, but punished truth-telling by branding it “misinformation.” Worse, governments and respected institutions combined to sanction truth-tellers by vilification as science-denying fascists, by sackings from universities or professional expulsions, by de-banking, or in some cases even imprisonment for failure to recant. Only firing squads were missing from the totalitarian scene – but there were certainly some suicides.
As an aside, I had the same almost immediate intuition as Hill because I’d only the previous year written a book on how we were becoming a propaganda state. I couldn’t get any endorsers, let alone a publisher.
Buckley, though, was not discouraged by the lack of press coverage of the Inquiry – it was only what they had expected. Rather, they were gratified at the world-wide attention by citizen-journalists and social media, which as we all know (if only from the State’s concerted efforts to suppress them) have a far wider audience than all the “legacy media” combined.
But although I think that the active remembrance of evil occasioned by the Inquiry is vital, and important to mention on The Hump, I want to draw one more unexpected lesson. This came from the organisers’ closing remarks. From these it became clear that the motive force of Allison and Buckley, and their wives, was their Christian commitment to truth and justice. Buckley spent several minutes describing how they delayed their decision on going ahead to seek the will of the Holy Spirit in prayer. It was only the conviction that the Lord was behind it that gave them the courage to risk reputations and careers by enabling the voiceless to speak truth to power.
In May I posted how the virtues of “the Britain we grew up with,” now apparently collapsing on all sides, were the direct result of Evangelical faith. There seems broad historical agreement that it was widespread popular Evangelical support for the anti-slavery movement that resulted not only in its abolition, but in a complete reformation of all aspects of society. And as we know, the Abolition movement was initiated and spearheaded by a few peripheral Christians in politics, of whom William Wilberforce is the most celebrated. In the end, slaves were freed by Act of Parliament, and not by Christian conscience alone, however widespread.
The spirit of Wilberforce seems to be that of Allison and Buckley, and it is a spirit that seems under-represented in the current Evangelical response to the cultural spiritual battle we find ourselves in. The threats to both Church and political liberty seem to be becoming belatedly recognised. And so too, at least in our neck of the woods, is the need for Christians to be counter-cultural, and authentically disciples of Christ. There is a welcome acknowledgement of the need to witness to those around us in both deed and word, and a hope that this might culminate in revival (a word with excess historical baggage, as I have pointed out before).
But there is a noticeable lack of a political “salt and light” dimension to many of these strategies, including (as just one example) an otherwise excellent assessment Crossing Over, by Issachar Ministries, an organisation set up by my old editor at Prophecy Today, Clifford Hill. Today’s Evangelicals, generally, appear to want to distance themselves from political action to avoid being contaminated by “cultural Christianity.” But The Allison Inquiry’s attitude, like that of William Wilberforce, seems more that of “He who is not against us is for us” (Mark 9:40). Back in the nineteenth century, this resulted in both spiritual revival and national renewal.
The Allison Inquiry demonstrates that, unlike those in the Soviet Union or Communist China, Christians here still have some degree of political influence. When repression is complete, there is no choice but to hunker down, maintain the faith, and share it where one dares. But that is not our situation in our nominally democratic society. We not only have the vote (possibly the least effective of our rights nowadays!), but the right to lobby, to demonstrate, and to petition, to denounce public evils in public (as both John the Baptist and Jesus did).
As a starting point, Christians must learn to see beyond the propaganda they are fed by the powers-that-be, lest they fail to be not only as innocent as doves (by condemning the heroes instead of the villains), but as wise as serpents to out-manoeuvre the demons in the power of Christ.
