Toronto Expert Witnesses

Dr. Eric Payne – Pediatric Neurologist

Rodney Palmer – Former CBC Investigative Journalist


Rodney Palmer is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 20 years as a foreign correspondent for CTV news and investigative reporter for CBC Radio & Television in Canada and abroad.
He was the CTV News Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief in India, China, and the Middle East. He was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2002 for Best Foreign News Reportage and was awarded the Canadian Radio and Television News Directors Award for Best News Reporting for his work in Israel and the West Bank. He is the president & founder of SaunaRay, a non-toxic, medical-grade, far infrared sauna made in Ontario.

Irvin Studin – Expert in Constitutional Law


In fewer than 15 years, Irvin Studin has distinguished himself as an author, lecturer and one of Canada’s foremost experts on foreign policy and national security. He is editor-in-chief and publisher of Global Brief magazine and president of the Institute for 21st Century Questions, a vision and strategy think tank launching this fall.

Between 2009 and 2014, Studin served as program director, Masters of Public Policy program, and as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance. He is the co-founder of Ukraine’s Higher School of Public Administration and a professor at Russia’s Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Studin has worked in the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, and Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. The first recruit of the Canadian government’s Recruitment of Policy Leaders program, Studin co-authored Canada’s 2004 national security policy and principal-authored Australia’s 2006 policy on national counter-terrorism.

Studin holds degrees from the Schulich School of Business, the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. His PhD is from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he was a Trudeau Scholar and earned the Governor-General’s Gold Medal. An all-Canadian athlete, Studin was inducted into York University’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 for his achievements in soccer, including his role as captain of the varsity team during his time at York.

Deanna McLeod – Medical Researcher


Deanna McLeod is a McMaster University graduate with an HB. Sc in Immunology & Psychology, Biology/ Biological Science. She is the founder of Covid Sense, a project focused on helping people make informed decisions about Covid risk and vaccination.

Deanna is also the founder of Kaleidoscope Strategies, an Oncology publications firm, and has published 22 papers in the National Library of Medicine National Center for Biotechnology Information.

Michael Alexander – Toronto Lawyer



Michael Alexander is a lawyer from Toronto, Canada, and has appeared at all levels of the court system, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Litigation and Regulatory Counsel Examples of achievements: exposed College of Physicians in use of fraudulent internal report to bring disciplinary charges against high-profile physician; created innovative defence framework in College disciplinary matters for Ontario Society of Physicians for Complementary Medicine (sub-group of OMA); prepared NBBA Venture Capital to successfully demonstrate at CRTC hearings that broadcasting competitors had violated Competition Act and CRTC regulations; wrote briefs for Mike Harris Government, which resulted in major legislative reforms.

Jay McCurdy – Elementary School teacher.

Jay Mccurdy, is an employee working in Thames Valley District School Board. Jay comes with knowledge and lived experience as to what has been happening in schools with Covid 19 policies and the impacts that they have seen these policies have on children.

Cindy Campbell – Nursing Academic

Catherine Swift – National President of Canadian Small Business Manufacturers


Catherine Swift is National President of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers & Businesses of Canada (CCMBC). She was previously President of Working Canadians from 2015-2021 & President & CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) from 1995-2014. From 2009 to 2014 she was the President of the International Small Business Congress, representing the interests of small- and medium-sized businesses globally.

Swift studied at the University of Toronto and Carleton University in Ottawa, receiving a B.A. (Honours) in Economics in 1977 and an MA in Economics in 1980.

Swift has a background with the Canadian federal government from 1976 to 1983, in the Departments of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Industry and Communications. She was Senior Economist with the Toronto-Dominion Bank from 1983 to 1987.

Swift joined the Canadian Federation of Independent Business as Chief Economist in 1987. She became President in 1995, CEO in 1997, and Chair in June 1999. For the CFIB, Swift coordinated policy issues at the federal and provincial level, and she represented CFIB to government and civil society members. From 2009 to 2014 she was the President of the International Small Business Congress, representing the interests of small- and medium-sized businesses globally.

Swift is a former president of the Empire Club, former Board member of the CD Howe Institute, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, and SOS Children’s Villages Canada.
As the head of CFIB, she was widely published in journals, magazines and other media on issues such as free trade, finance, entrepreneurship and issues facing small business owners, particularly female entrepreneurs. She contributed the article in The Canadian Encyclopedia entitled Small Business, and wrote for Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post, among others, about small business issues.



Laura Jeffrey – Ontario Mortician



Laura Jeffery, a 27-year Licensed Funeral Director, will be providing insights from her experiences in Funeral Service during the last 3 years.

Bruce Pardy  – Lawyer


Professor Pardy is presently on leave from Queen’s Law to serve as the Executive Director of Rights Probe, a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation, one of Canada’s leading public policy and governance thinktanks.

Bruce Pardy is a professor of law at Queen’s University, a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and executive director of Rights Probe (rightsprobe.org). A critic of legal progressivism and the discretionary managerial state, he has written on a range of subjects at the front lines of the culture war inside the law, including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets, and the rule of law.

He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach.

Greg Hill – Pilot and ex Captain with Air Canada


Greg Hill is a 32-year veteran of the Canadian Air Force who was an airline captain with Air Canada. He was fired from his job, was expelled from the air force, and was forced to sell his home and move his family.

He is the director of Free to Fly, Canada, and works with tens of thousands of professionals in all sectors of air transport. He denounced the loss of trust in entire sectors, in the political, scientific, and medical communities. Questions – if there were any – were silenced.

In dealing with a Transport Canada doctor, he noted that participation in medical trials is not permitted when employed in the sector, and was told that the “vaccines” had been “fully approved” by Health Canada (they had not). He asked for information on adverse effects, as Health Canada had just released information about myocarditis—he received no reply.

Dr. Robert Malone – Developer for the mRNA technology

Dr. Robert Malone is an internationally recognized scientist and physician who is known as the original “inventor” of mRNA and DNA vaccines. He holds numerous fundamental patents in gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines, including for DNA and RNA/mRNA vaccine technologies.

Despite his groundbreaking contributions to the field, Dr. Malone is concerned about the development and implementation of the technology he helped create. As a respected authority in his field, his words carry weight, and his expertise is highly regarded.

Dr. Malone’s history and expertise in mRNA and DNA vaccines make him a valuable voice in the ongoing discussion about the safety and efficacy of these technologies. His concern for the responsible development and implementation of this technology is a testament to his commitment to improving public health.

Dr. Mark Trozzi – Outspoken critic of Covid policies in Canada


Dr. Mark Trozzi has been practicing Emergency Medicine for the past twenty-five years. Dr. Trozzi Graduated in 1990 from the University of Western Ontario, he is an Advanced Trauma Life Support professor with the College of Surgeons of America, and holds teaching positions at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in the Advanced Life Support Department, as well as with both Queen’s University and the University of Ottawa. On call in multiple emergency units during the Covid-19 pandemic, including an ER designated specifically for Covid-19, he now refuses to participate in practices he considers unethical and unscientific, that have been imposed by Covid-19 policies. He currently dedicates himself full-time to research, public education, and activism and is an active member of Take Action Canada and Canada Health Alliance. Mark is also a Director of EbMCsquared CiC. His written and video material can be found at www.drtrozzi.org.

Vincent Gircys – Retired Senior Constable

Vincent Gircys, a retired Senior Constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Constable Gircys has been in contact with numerous active duty and retired members of various Canadian Police Services reaching out in concern of the events unfolding before us. As a result they are strategizing to uphold those Rights and Freedoms they swore to undertake.