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Shawn Buckley
So our next witness is Joseph Bourgault. Joseph, let’s start. Can you please state your full name for the record, spelling your first and last name?

Joseph Bourgault
Joseph Bourgault, Joseph J-O-S-E-P-H, Bourgault B-O-U-R-G-A-U-L-T.

Shawn Buckley
And Joseph, do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Joseph Bourgault
I do.

Shawn Buckley
Now, you have a presentation for us. But before we get to that, my understanding is that you had a serious health crisis some time back caused by mercury poisoning.

Joseph Bourgault
That is correct.

Shawn Buckley
And because of that, you were literally disabled for approximately eight years.

Joseph Bourgault
I was disabled for, probably— ’92, ’93. For sure two years, I was mostly bedridden.

Shawn Buckley
And this experience led you to learn how to heal yourself because you had not been able to find the answers in the medical community.

Joseph Bourgault
Correct.

Shawn Buckley
And you literally became passionate about learning about the body and health.

Joseph Bourgault
Correct.

Shawn Buckley
This has now become a lifetime passion for you.

Joseph Bourgault
One of my hobbies.

Shawn Buckley
Okay. You’re going to speak in your presentation about your business experience. But one thing I wanted to emphasize is that, my understanding is you have learned through that experience about how to get people to work together.

Joseph Bourgault
That is correct. I’ve been in management since I was 20 years old and executive leadership positions since 1986.

Shawn Buckley
I just bring that up because, although you’re not speaking about it today— Except that I’m going to ask you a couple of questions. You went to Ottawa. You arrived there on January 29th, as the Trucker Convoy was just really arriving and getting organized, and you left on February 16th, two days after the Emergencies Act was invoked. For that time, you worked with the truckers to basically ensure that they worked as a team and that the protest remained lawful. So that’s why I was bringing up that you basically had gained this experience and you just used that to assist the truckers.

Joseph Bourgault
That is correct.

Shawn Buckley
I did want to ask you if you could comment on whether the trucker protest was peaceful and lawful.

Joseph Bourgault
Well, I’m not sure I’m the right guy to ask that. You might ask the 10 lawyers that were there supervising it, Shawn. But everything— You know, I’ve been involved in legal matters in our business—

Shawn Buckley
I’ll just stop you, Joe. I’m really not asking for legal opinions. Just, you were there; you lived it. I’m asking you. The government and media told us they’re misogynists and racist and it’s all violence and we’re seeing pictures of a Nazi flag and I’m just— You were there. What really was it like? Not a legal opinion.

Joseph Bourgault
As a citizen, it was 100 per cent a legal, peaceful protest. I heard nothing from anyone, including the lawyers. As a matter of fact, there were two rulings by Ontario court judges that said they could continue with the protest as long as they maintained a legal, peaceful protest. And there were two decisions. One related to the horns: A judge had ruled that the horns had to stop. So there’s legal precedent that it was a legal, peaceful protest.

Everything I observed—and I was in many of the meetings as an advisor, basically, to the truckers—there was never any discussion that was illegal or unreasonable. The people that were there leading, trying to organize a legal, peaceful protest: they’re the most intelligent, rational, reasonable, people. At least those that were in the meetings. Those that were more, let’s say, unable to work as a team, to maintain a legal, peaceful protest, we encouraged them not to be in the meetings.

Shawn Buckley
Thank you for sharing that. I just thought it was important for people to appreciate that you had basically contributed in a very meaningful way for really the entire protest, and that you were involved.

I know that’s not why you’re here to speak today. You’re here to give us a presentation and I’ll just ask you to begin with that.

Joseph Bourgault
Okay. Thank you, Shawn. So first,

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I would like to start by thanking all the leaders, organizers, and volunteers for the National Citizens Inquiry. I think it’s essential that we get to the truth of the matter of the many governments—all the provincial, territorial, and federal governments that have been involved, and the medical agencies involved—in the handling of the, I’ll say, “man-made” COVID-19 crisis situation over the last three years. From the get-go—when I heard this was being organized, I had met with Preston Manning at our Calgary offices at Canadians for Truth—I’m 100 per cent supportive of what you folks are doing. This is fantastic. It’s in the Canadian tradition here. I see the National Citizens Inquiry as a 2.0 to the Ottawa Trucker Freedom Convoy. We’re all citizens that deeply value the principles of freedom and truth and justice. And so I’m very grateful to all of you for what you’re doing here.

Introducing myself, I think it’s really important for me to say this: I’m a father of two adult children and I’m also a father-in-law. I’m a grandfather of three, born and raised in St. Bruce, Saskatchewan. I’m president and CEO of F.P. Bourgault Tillage Tools. I’m president and co-founder of Canadians for Truth, Freedom and Justice.

I want to give you very briefly a bit about my background, because I have a lot of decades of experience in research, in discerning truth. I started working with my father. I was 13. I worked with my dad for 20 years. My dad was a brilliant mechanic and really a self-taught technician or engineer, who invented the Bourgault multi-purpose cultivator. And I was working with dad through that time. I recall working with dad. Dad would always tell us that— I have three other siblings—at least he told me that if you want to solve a problem, you have to get at the truth of the matter. And I feel like I had the greatest parents in the world. They were both always honest with us, loving, kind, respectful parents. So I deeply admired and valued my parents, as well as my siblings.

I took two years of university in commerce. And with that, I set up all the accounting systems in F.P. Bourgault Industries, which was founded in 1973, and set up all the accounting systems. I could see Dad needed help in other areas, so I ended up working in service and dealing with the problems that we were having with the earliest models of our equipment. There was a lot of demand for them, but they weren’t without challenges. So I ended up working quite a bit in problem solving, and so I ended up inventing—using my creative skills and my problem-solving skills to invent solutions and to develop new products.

My first invention was in 1979. I became the facilities manager and one of the project leaders, the main project leader, for cultivator research in 1980. I designed and developed the Bourgault Fibro Series cultivators in sizes from 24 to 60 feet. And then in ’84, ’85, a really major invention was the Bourgault Floating Hitch cultivator, which really helped facilitate air-seeding. My father was the co-inventor. He assisted me with it. In 1985, I was appointed to my first executive leadership position. Dad asked me to become the general manager of one of the Bourgault divisions, the Bourgault cultivator division. I was 29 at the time.

Shawn Buckley
And Joseph, I am going to try and kind of speed you up. Just because I want you to spend time on the things that you would say would be a little more important.

Joseph Bourgault
A hundred per cent. So that speaks to my executive leadership skill. I have been in executive leader positions since then. In 1991, we founded another division of the cultivator division, and that is F.P. Bourgault Tillage Tools, and I was president and CEO of that company. In 2011, jumping ahead 30 years—

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In 2011, I was nominated and awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. That’s what the S.O.M. behind my name stands for—I use it on occasion, I’ll kid about it sometimes, “South of Melfort.” For job creation and improving the quality of lives of Canadians. So that speaks to my management executive leadership.

A 2.0 in my life was, in 1984, I had developed serious chronic fatigue, and over an eight-year period, that continued to worsen. My health continued to worsen. I worked with it until 1991. In ’91, I had to take a leave of absence for my health because I was so ill. But in that eight-year period, I spent those eight years in the conventional medical care system in Canada and in North America. For example, I was three times to the Mayo Clinic over a five-year period. Each time you go to the Mayo Clinic, you go through three days of testing. In those eight years, I never found any clues. Doctors could give me no clues or answers as to what was causing my health problems. So in ’92, I knew that I was dying, and I made a conscious decision. I remember that moment where I was going to apply my research skills to try to figure out what was causing what had become severe chronic fatigue, severe chronic headaches, and with that, severe chronic depression.

By the grace of God, I say, I was searching. And in a health food store, I picked up an Alive magazine that had an article about a lady who had recovered from mercury poisoning after having her amalgam dental fillings removed. The light went on at the end of the tunnel. For the first time in eight years, I saw light at the end of the tunnel. And I continued researching mercury poisoning, and I had all the symptoms of it. I found a doctor who I felt was the world’s leading researcher, Dr. Hal Huggins in Colorado Springs. I went to his clinic in ’93, July, August of ’93. He safely removed and replaced all of my amalgams, and I began to recover immediately.

One of the significant events in my recovery was: in ’92, my wife, children, and I, from my research, began eating 100 per cent organic food diet, and we saw dramatic improvements in everyone’s health. Mine, in ’92. I didn’t have the amalgams out, so I continued to struggle, but I noticed my capacity to think and reason dramatically improved. It took me eight years or seven years to regain my excellent health, but I continued to study natural health and healing, and that’s what led me to understanding how to treat viral infections.

In ’95, my wife and I had opened a health food store in St. Brieux, which I was a participant in for 20 years. And we shared what we were learning with people to empower people, and one of the things that we became good at was treating viral infections. Dr. David Williams, who I consider one of the world’s leading researchers, had in his research found two herbal products—ImmunoPhase and BronchoPhase—which were used to prevent and treat the H1N1 virus. The H1N1 virus was actually deadlier in my mind than the COVID-19, because it would kill young healthy people. They would have cytokine storms in their lungs. And within a matter of days, their lungs would fill with fluid and it would kill them. Healthy people. That was not the case for COVID.

So we had that in our health food store, and we helped people recover from H1N1 and from other influenzas. These were great products.

In 2020, when COVID-19 hit, I knew that we had products available that may work to prevent and treat COVID-19. And then again, in April, another world’s leading research doctor, Dr. Joseph Mercola, published information on quercetin. What he had published was that quercetin acted similar to hydroxychloroquine,

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as an ionophore to shuttle zinc into our cells. And it’s the zinc that actually inhibits our polymerase enzyme, which a virus requires in order to be able to replicate.

When that came out—because I’m not a doctor and I’ve never pretended to be one—I began to share that information. We published a brochure with a protocol, because even though anybody can take these products, you have to know how to take them. For example, zinc: If you take zinc, and I ran into cases where people were taking very high levels of zinc, that can actually depress your immune system and cause other problems. So I knew the RDA on zinc. And I published a protocol that I knew would be safe and began sharing that. As well, Dr. Mercola published a lot of articles on vitamin D3. And vitamin D3 also acted to prevent and treat COVID. It coats our ACE2 receptors, preventing these spike proteins from being able to dock on our cells, on our ACE2 receptors. So I was publishing that information about vitamin D.

So I understood therapeutics and how to prevent and treat. And over the course of the last three years, anyone who asked me for information, I would share information on nutrition, how they could prevent and treat COVID-19. I assisted over two dozen people to recover from COVID-19, including people who were in hospital who called me.

You can see on that slide, the herbal and nutritional supplements that I recommended to people: ImmunoPhase and BronchoPhase, quercetin with zinc, vitamin D—and there are many other excellent supplements, too numerous to mention here. The drug therapeutics I was following as well, because I felt I knew right away that doctors should be allowed to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, azithromycin. And you can go to that website, www.c19early.com, where it has over 2,600 studies and the majority of them are peer-reviewed studies that show the therapeutics that work.

So when COVID emerged in January 2020, I knew that we had solutions, and I was also following the science. I was following the Government of Canada COVID-19 Daily Update Website Statistics, because we had to deal with some panic situation. We knew that the mainstream media was panicking Canadians, the opposite of what you should do. From 30-plus years of executive leadership experience, what you’ve got to be doing in a crisis situation is you have to remain calm and cool and then focus on the pursuit of truth to understand the root causes of the problem. You don’t panic people, that’s like yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre.

And that’s what the government was doing to Canadians: they were yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre. It just irked me to no end what was going on, and it was affecting our manufacturing company. We have 80 employees and there was a panic going on in early April. What we began to do, late March, was providing a daily update newsletter to all of our employees telling the truth: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Because that’s what you do in a crisis situation. We started providing statistics, plus what they could do to prevent and treat COVID-19, and within a matter of a couple weeks, everybody settled down.

The other thing that was happening: By March/April 2020, Laura Ingram, a lawyer and journalist with Fox News, was interviewing many people who had COVID-19 in the US. And hydroxychloroquine at that time was the drug being used with azithromycin. The way, again, hydroxychloroquine works is as an ionophore that shuttles zinc into the cell, and it’s the zinc that shuts down viral replication. Azithromycin, the doctors were prescribing in cases like Mark Friesen, where they had a lung bacterial infection. And they had excellent results.

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The peer-reviewed science that was coming out— Dr. Didier Raoult, is a great example. He’s a top-rated European virologist from Marseille, France. He had conducted numerous peer-reviewed studies. I was following him, and his largest one was with 1,061 people, and he had a 98.6 per cent recovery with it. Another doctor in the United States, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, another honest, what I call “honest truth-seeking doctor” from Monroe, New York: he conducted a trial with 1,000 people, and he had similar results. As I recall, all 1,000 had recovered.

We could see that there was a suppression of the therapeutics. The mainstream media was suppressing the truth about therapeutics. And you could tell already by then, in March/ April, there was a centrally controlled narrative. That’s all. I didn’t have any factual evidence until Rodney Palmer, at a recent National Citizens Inquiry hearing in Toronto, explained what was going on behind the scenes. But it was evident: The mainstream media was instructed to suppress all information about the therapeutics.

With that in mind, by the fall of 2020, a group of friends of mine and like-minded Saskatchewan citizens were fed up with what we’re seeing. Because we could see that they were going to kill people, that thousands of people could die if the therapeutics were not released. So we gathered. In November of 2020, we founded and incorporated Canadians for Truth, Freedom and Justice as a non-profit organization to gather truth and share that information with Canadians—to empower and enable Canadians to take preventative therapeutics from the brochure that we had published, how to take quercetin, zinc, and vitamin D.

Dr. Peter McCullough, who needs no introduction, I watched many hours of video with him. And I recall one of his statements that if therapeutics had been allowed, if doctors had been allowed to prescribe therapeutics, over 85 per cent of the people who died with COVID-19 would be alive today. So in Canada, we had, I believe, just under 50,000 people that died with COVID-19. Over 47,000 of those people would be alive today—

Shawn Buckley
I’ll just interject. You’re meaning alive if the doctors had been able to use early treatment.

Joseph Bourgault
Correct.

Shawn Buckley
Not to wait until they’re so sick they’re attending at the Emergency Department. I don’t know if you’re aware, but apparently in the province—I’m from Alberta—the College of Physicians and Surgeons literally directed doctors not to give early treatment for COVID, but rather only treat them when they arrived in emergency wards. And I assume that you would frown on that as a very reckless policy.

Joseph Bourgault
Yeah. I would like to know who is behind making those decisions. I believe they came right from the top. And when I say the top, people outside of this country who were controlling the COVID-19 narrative. I believe the World Health Organization was involved in that. I had seen evidence of Bill Gates funding studies to discredit hydroxychloroquine by giving crazy amounts so that it would not work. So there were people behind the scenes who were suppressing the truth.

Shawn Buckley
I didn’t mean to get you off on a segue.

Joseph Bourgault
So there were doctors in the country, Canadian doctors: Dr. Francis Christian, Dr. Daniel Nagase, Dr. Charles Hoffe, Dr. Mark Trozzi, Dr. Byram Bridle, Dr. Patrick Phillips, and many others who risked their careers. And many lost their careers doing the right thing, speaking out publicly to protect the health of Canadians. Like me, they were just incensed that the truth was being suppressed. And so all Canadians: These people are heroes. They’re Canadian heroes.

As I see it, and many of us, I think: We’re living in a twilight zone.

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I grew up, and many of us here grew up, in an era where honesty and integrity mattered. And that if somebody ever lied to us—a friend or anybody that was a perpetual liar—those people were marginalized immediately. Because people who are liars are a risk to society. So I would ask Canadians: How many lies do our governments have to tell us before we stop voting to elect these people?

To me, the therapeutics was the elephant in the room. Again, with what Dr. Peter McCullough said: If doctors could have prescribed therapeutics, 85 per cent of the people who died with COVID-19 would have been alive today. I talked to doctors who attended our meetings of Canadians for Truth. They were frustrated to no end. They knew these medications worked, yet they couldn’t prescribe them because they would have had their licenses revoked.

So over 40,000 Canadians would still be alive today. Our hospitals would not have been any busier than normal, and normal, life-saving hospital visits could have taken place. Face masks that did not work would have been completely unnecessary. Lockdowns that did not work would have been completely unnecessary. There would have been no excuses for the reckless spending of 500 billion Canadian tax dollars. There would have been no need for an emergency use authorization for an experimental gene therapy injection. There would have been no experimental injections. That alone would have saved, for sure, thousands of injuries, and we don’t know how many deaths would have been prevented. We would not have created all the trauma, division among families, bankruptcies, mental health problems, the suicides that occurred, the deaths due from lack of medical care.

What’s happened here has fuelled— For me, I have zero trust in any of these politicians. If they speak truth, fine, but I know that many of them are not truth-tellers.

As I see it, there was massive, gross incompetence, if not criminal negligence, murder, and genocide taking place. Everybody in Canada understands that we cannot just go out and kill someone without going to jail for life for doing so. According to the rule of law, if someone kills someone, unless it’s in self-defence, in order to get rid of somebody— If somebody is killed, an investigation is conducted. Factual evidence is gathered and if the factual evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt—
Shawn Buckley
Joseph, I know you’ve prepared some slides on criminal liability but we’ve got a couple of lawyers coming. And I think your point is that you think there should be criminal liability for what happened.

Joseph Bourgault
The point is: Canadians have to understand that, because there are people in positions of authority, if it was not gross incompetence, there was criminal negligence. And the factual evidence, to me, that we have gathered shows there was criminal negligence. So I guess I hope that in light of what happened with the therapeutics, Canadians will see that there was an orchestrated effort to suppress that. Whoever was suppressing that, to me, there should be criminal liability.

Shawn Buckley
Okay. Just so that people listening understand: The point you’re making, and I think you’ve made it very clear, is we had early treatment available and somebody was making policy decisions not to use those early treatments. Flowing from that, there has been a large number of deaths. I think your slide was estimating 40,000 Canadian deaths.
When you nod your head, we’re being recorded.

Joseph Bourgault
Yes.

Shawn Buckley
Yeah. Then, if I recall your slide correctly, also we wouldn’t have needed the lockdowns and the vaccine and all the things that flowed from that. Your point is: There has been so much harm—

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Joseph Bourgault
Correct.

Shawn Buckley
—caused, flowing from this decision, that someone should be held criminally liable for that.
Just so that we understand what you’re suggesting.

Joseph Bourgault
So you’ll see there’s three parts to my presentation. And what I want to demonstrate is that in all three parts, there was lying and deception taking place.

The next one here is the truth in science. You can see, if you could show the video here, I think this guy wearing a face mask definitely proves that you would have never stopped a virus that’s 0.1 micron from getting past that mask. So that’s the physiological aspect of it. As an employer, as president and CEO of my company, I have a responsibility to make sure that all of my employees are kept in a safe work environment. One of our first mottos— When you walk into our manufacturing facilities at Bourgault Tillage Tools, our motto is: Safety, Quality, Productivity, in that order.

Know your facts. In Saskatchewan, Canada, we have occupational health and safety laws. So for carbon dioxide levels, under OH&S regulations, normal atmospheric carbon dioxide is 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide in a work environment cannot exceed a thousand parts per million. Over that is considered unsafe. Over 5,000 parts per million is considered hazardous. These are the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations that we have to follow. The CO2 levels, if they rise over 40,000 parts per million, it’s considered immediately dangerous to life and health.

We hired an Occupational Health and Safety expert that is a CSA [Canadian Standards Association] certified trainer to train doctors, nurses, firefighters with respirators and face masks and how to use them. He came in and he measured, behind four different masks and a respirator, the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide. With oxygen, the normal atmospheric oxygen is about 21 per cent, 20.9 per cent at sea level. In our Saskatchewan Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, the minimum oxygen that any of our employees can be exposed to is 19.5 per cent. Below that is immediately dangerous to life and health. And yet we measured the level of oxygen behind these four different masks, averaging between 17 and 17.5 per cent.

Shawn Buckley
Joseph, can I have you back up a slide?

Joseph Bourgault
Yep.

Shawn Buckley
So when it shows there: carbon dioxide levels cannot exceed 1,000 ppm [parts per million] in the workplace, am I correct that if it was measuring at that, you would have to clear out the building?

Joseph Bourgault
No, you would have to take corrective measures.

Shawn Buckley
At what point do you have to vacate a building?

Joseph Bourgault
Well, for sure, 40,000 parts per million would be dangerous. You hear of people going into caves and dying of suffocation in caves because carbon dioxide is heavier than oxygen. I’ll make that point about how dangerous high carbon dioxide is with low oxygen.

Shawn Buckley
Right, but you’re basically describing that you had an expert come and measure the carbon dioxide in masks. And just unequivocally, they were at dangerous levels. And these are the types of masks the government was mandating that we would wear.

Joseph Bourgault
The government really didn’t have any specific mandates, they just wanted people to virtue-signal that they were putting a mask on. But the four different ones— We had an N95, we had a respirator— With a respirator, you can exhaust the carbon dioxide, and it still restricts oxygen but it’s much safer. Carbon dioxide is one and a half times heavier than oxygen. When you fill your lungs with carbon dioxide with a mask on, you can’t get oxygen. And that’s where it can kill you. So we measured.

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Within two minutes of putting a mask on, you are breathing carbon dioxide between 25 and 43,000 parts per million. The 43 would occur if you would talk, if someone would just talk behind the mask. If someone had exerted themselves behind a mask, it would go way higher. And then with the oxygen, we measured between 17—it went as low as 16, but the average would have been—I took a high average of 17.4, which is dangerous.

Shawn Buckley
When someone was exerting themselves. So what do you think based on what you saw? Because I saw children running around in play yards or school grounds with masks on, so they would be exerting themselves.

Joseph Bourgault
Correct. It was very dangerous and I’m aware of cases. We had one case in our company where someone collapsed with a mask on. There’s evidence that it wasn’t only the mask. He had exerted himself and there were other factors involved in his case. His heart stopped, and our first responders in our company revived him, and he ended up three weeks in a coma in hospital. And he survived it. We can’t discern factually accurately how much of a role the mask played in that because he had other co-factors. He was a young person, though, so they’re dangerous. And I was aware of other cases. A woman who was standing in a line at a Walmart with a mask on. She fainted, fell backwards, hit her head on a cart, and then on the floor. She suffers brain damage. She’s from Alberta. I’ve spoken with her.

In Saskatchewan, we have what’s called workers’ rights. This is posted all over our facilities. You have a right to know about workplace hazards. You have the right to participate in a safety program. You have the right to refuse work if it’s not safe and you have the right for protection against discrimination. So we live this stuff. Our company is certified under SASM [Safety Association of Saskatchewan Manufacturers]. We have a bronze certification. We’re a company of 80 people. We have a full-time person that’s been working at this. We hired him full time in 2016. We take safety seriously. So when the government is telling me I got to put my workers in an unsafe work environment, I’m pissed.

I let the government know about this. They have this information. I feel our federal governments and provincial governments forcing Canadians to wear face masks, they violated the truth in science governing human respiratory health and safety. They risked the life of every Canadian citizen. Many were injured due to fainting, hitting their heads, and that sort of thing. They violated their own regulations, which we support a hundred per cent, because they’re based in science. They violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and they impaired every child’s ability to learn while wearing face masks. There’s a lot of lying going on here. A lot of lying and deception. Ignoring the truth in science. Ignoring the laws that govern our existence here.

One of the things that we’re doing at Canadians for Truth, we published brochures on this. We have a brochure that we are handing out to people with what’s in this presentation, so that people could see. We still see people wearing face masks! Like, alone in a vehicle. You know, we have to educate our citizens, because the truth matters. It can kill you! You pass out in driving a vehicle, a semi, you could kill a lot of people. It’s literally insane that our governments are going along, are not educating our citizens.

So at Canadians for Truth Media, because our media is not doing this, this is what we’re doing. We’re creating educational and entertaining programs to inform Canadians and to teach critical thinking skills: how to discern truth on important issues such as face masks and therapeutics because this can save lives. We need an educated, enlightened population. And we need Canadians to understand their legal rights. So we’re bringing lawyers in as well in our shows, to help educate Canadians.

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We need Canadians to vote to elect honest truth-seeking, moral, ethical, and highly competent politicians who would be willing to take an oath to always seek truth, to uphold the rule of law, to serve the Canadian people who elected to serve them.

In this next, the third part, I’m going to overlap a little wee bit here with my good friend Dr. Francis Christian to support what he did and to reinforce. We had submitted a document to the provincial government on May 31st at Canadians for Truth. This was before Dr. Francis Christian had gone public. He was discerning the statistics as well. He went public on June 17th; I believe that’s the first that I was aware when Dr. Christian had gone public. The group of us in Canadians for Truth, we went to the Government of Canada website.

Statistics Canada generally does a very good job of providing statistics and so they have that daily COVID-19 update website. It was with 100 per cent disbelief and alarm when the federal and provincial chief medical officers, in early 2021, began promoting experimental gene therapy injections for Canadian children under 19 years of age. The infection death rate statistics were near zero out of 265,000 cases and there were many more. There’s a peer-reviewed study that shows over 90 per cent of Canadians had COVID-19. The vast majority were asymptomatic. Eleven kids, had they given them therapeutics, those kids would likely be alive—or at least 85 per cent of them according to Dr. Peter McCullough.

Even if this experimental injection worked, the idea of giving it to our kids was insanity, pure insanity. We worked long, hard days—21 straight days—to produce a report. The title of it is “Risk Analysis: Assessing the Risks and Harms of the Covid-19 mRNA Injections VERSUS Using Zero Risk Therapeutic Drugs and Natural Supplements: Making Informed Decisions Based on the Facts.” We were expressing our serious concerns with experimental COVID-19 mRNA injections that were developed at light speed and never tested on animals. Now they were going to be using our children as guinea pigs. We knew that these injections were going to kill, seriously injure, and potentially sterilize because that’s one of the side effects. The mRNA goes to the prostate and to the ovaries and the immune system will attack and destroy those body parts. They were going to potentially sterilize our Saskatchewan Canadian children. We wanted to warn Premier Scott Moe. We sent that report to Premier Scott Moe and all of the Saskatchewan Party MLAs. So they were warned.

That’s why I wanted to do this part of the presentation, Dr. Christian. I felt that they needed to be warned. The survival statistics showed: for kids that were infected, 11 out of 265,011 died with COVID. That was 1:23,000—99.956 per cent who were diagnosed with COVID had a full recovery, and that’s without therapeutics. The statistics also showed that the previous three years, 2.5 times more children died from influenza than they were dying from COVID.

Shawn Buckley
Can I just stop you there so that people understand what you’re saying? When you’re talking about influenza, you’re just talking about the regular seasonal flu that comes through. If we were to back up for the three years before COVID hit, we had actually 2.5 more children dying from the average flu than from COVID.

Now, am I right—and I’m just guessing here—that for the year where they’re attributing deaths to COVID for children, there were no influenza deaths? So actually, there would be fewer children’s deaths if we would just call COVID a flu season.

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Because every year we lose children to the flu season. So for the COVID year, even though we’re getting all panicked about it in the media, there were fewer child deaths that year.

Joseph Bourgault
Yeah. Very good point, Shawn.

Shawn Buckley
Okay. When you’re talking about influenza, I just wanted the people listening to understand what you’re saying.

Joseph Bourgault
There are a group of Canadian doctors—and I won’t, well, is it safe to say? There are a group of Canadian doctors and nurses that worked hard to warn parents, to tell parents to make an informed consent decision. At Canadians for Truth, we worked with these doctors and nurses to publish. They created a website we helped fund and these brochures, “COVID Kid Facts,” you could go to that website. I think the website is down, but if anybody wanted to read, they had put together very good information to warn parents to make an informed consent decision before injecting their children.

This is stuff that’s coming out now. The American Heart Association published a study that 98 per cent of all cases of myocarditis among children are due to the mRNA COVID-19 injection. Dr. Michael Yeadon—that quote that’s on the bottom there—said “children are 50 times more likely to die from the COVID-19 vaccine than from the virus.” This is Dr. Michael Yeadon, who was a former vice-president of Pfizer, that has stood up loudly against this.

Had the therapeutics been there, we would have saved the children who died. And parents would have had nothing to worry about had they used therapeutics like quercetin, zinc, vitamin D, at whatever their body weight levels, to prevent and treat COVID. What you see here is one of the protocols that we had published on our website. And we posted this also on Facebook at Canadians for Truth to warn Canadians and to help keep people out of hospitals.

As a Canadian citizen, it’s completely unconscionable— I don’t know how Canadians can remain silent while they’re killing our children. All I can do is encourage as we’ve been doing, encouraging people to share the truth. Because we can’t force people to wake up, but we need to keep sharing the truth as you folks are doing here.

Dr. William Makis, an honest, truth-seeking Canadian doctor from Alberta, has done more to track deaths and injuries from the experimental injections that have been killing and injuring our kids than any of the governments. And the numbers are pretty alarming, the number of kids that have died. Way more, no comparison.

So again, our governments ignored the statistical, factual evidence on their own website. Our governments ignored the death and injury statistics from VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] in the United States. They could have looked over the border. All the information was there. This is, again, criminal, as I see it.

On a final note, I want to say we have much more work to do. But I remain optimistic that with God’s help and guidance as Canadian citizens, if we work together and pursue the truth and continue to do as all the truth-seeking Canadians have been doing, to organize and stand up with the science. Do it in a respectful way as much as possible, because obviously our challenge is to awaken the Canadians that are still asleep.

As I see it, one of the ways that we’re going to win this is if Canadians that are educated to understand what has taken place here over the last three and a half years vote to elect the most honest, truth-seeking people.

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I’d also encourage people that are honest truth-seekers to get into office at every level: federal, provincial, municipal. Run for office, those who have been standing up. One of the ways that we’re going to regain control over our country is if we can get principled leaders back in positions of authority in our country. I ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party in March, April of 2022, because I’m fed up with electing politicians who value power over the principles.

Any good leader understands that number one, we have to do God’s will. And God’s will is for us to love, to be respectful, kind, to help one another, to pursue truth, to solve problems. When we seek the truth, the truth sets us free. And to recognize that every Canadian has a God-given free will, and we can’t force anything on Canadians. We can only pray and do the best we can to educate people with the truth. And also, to stand up for justice and freedom. When I ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party, I told the truth like I’m doing here, and I thought, if they throw me out of the race, that’s fine, I have done God’s will. That’s what God wants us to do, is to do His will by being loving, kind, respectful, and always telling the truth, as respectfully as we can. And if we do that, I believe that, as Canadians, we will succeed in defeating the dark agenda that has been taking place the last three and a half years. If we continue to work together.

With God’s help and guidance, we will not fail. So God bless Canada, and we will stand on guard for thee.
Shawn Buckley
Joseph, before I hand you over to the commissioners, there’s actually one thing that I’ve just been waiting and waiting to ask you. You were talking about how, as an employer—and you guys have some significant-sized companies—you have provincial legal obligations to make sure that you’re ensuring your workplace is safe. Under the Criminal Code Section 217.1, an employer can also be criminally liable for criminal negligence if how the direct work is done causes a harm or death. Did you guys have any discussions about whether or not to impose a vaccine mandate and what types of things kind of came into play as an employer when you guys were being faced with that?

Joseph Bourgault
I won’t speak for my brothers, who also own manufacturing companies in St. Brieux. Between my brothers’ companies and mine, we employ approximately 800 people in St. Brieux. But I know my brothers are truth-seekers like myself. My understanding was in our company—and I believe Jerry and Claude handled it the same way in their companies—we respect freedom of choice. And we did not want to discriminate against anyone, whichever way they wanted to go. We respected everybody’s freedom of choice. There were no mandates in our community for anybody to take any experimental injections.

Shawn Buckley
Okay. So you’re an example of a workplace, collectively, as a family, that didn’t impose mandates, that just honoured people’s right to decide how they were going to treat their bodies.

Joseph Bourgault
Correct.

Shawn Buckley
And compared to other companies, what types of outcomes did your companies experience?

Joseph Bourgault
To my awareness, I am not aware of anybody dying of COVID. We were aware, we were keeping track of people at one time that were injured or died from taking the injection. It was creating a bit of division in our companies. But I’ve learned from experience. If you handle things in a principled way, you have to respect one of the principles: God gave everybody free will. It’s not for me to tell you, or anybody, what they should do. If they’re open— We shared with people the statistics that showed all the people in our company under 70, and most everybody is under 70, were at zero risk from COVID-19 plus the therapeutic information.

Shawn Buckley
I’m just going to focus you because we’re running late. We’ve got a couple of other witnesses, but were you aware of any other companies that had worse outcomes?

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I have the impression your companies actually had really good outcomes through this experience.

Joseph Bourgault
Yeah, we did. I’m aware of companies that were forcing their employees to take injections. And they lost many good employees as a result because those people refused to take it.

Shawn Buckley
Okay. I’m going to hand you over to the commissioners to see if they have any questions.

Commissioner Massie
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Bourgault, for this very interesting presentation. You mentioned some of the natural products that play a role in preventing COVID. Quercetin was one of them. You mentioned the work that was published by Dr. McCullough. Are you aware of the study that was done in Montreal by Michel Chrétien?

Joseph Bourgault
No.

Commissioner Massie
This was in the mainstream media in Quebec.

Joseph Bourgault
And this is on quercetin?

Commissioner Massie
Yeah. He was all excited about it. He’s a real scientist and he was very excited. I’ve seen it for maybe two to three weeks and then it vanished completely from the horizon. Again, to me, that’s an example of— I will speak about what’s going on in Canada. I’m very happy to learn about what you’ve done. But we have a team of people also in Quebec that has done similar work and, I think that as I go across Canada, people are not very aware because of the language barrier, which is unfortunate.

Another example of a clinical trial very successfully done in Montreal in the Institut de Cardiologie by Dr. Tardif on colchicine. This was actually praised by Dr. McCullough as one of the very promising treatments for some indications in Covid. Have you heard of that?

Joseph Bourgault
No, I have not. I’m sorry. I do believe that if we would have wanted to save tens of thousands of Canadians, it would have had to have been the doctors given the authority to prescribe these, whether it was ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin. Natural supplements play a really critical role. Millions of Canadians are aware of this as well. I would be one of probably millions that are aware of this.

Commissioner Massie
I thought your studies—the work you’ve done on masks and potential side effects for health—are very interesting. Because this is something people have hypothesized, that wearing this device could actually lead to all kinds of issues with the build-up of CO2, for example, which is really bad for your health.

When you started those studies, were you aware of the science that would actually support that kind of warning about wearing the mask?

Joseph Bourgault
We knew the Occupational Health and Safety signs, that we could not put an employee in an environment where the level of carbon dioxide would be above 1,000 parts per million. And we knew that we couldn’t put an employee in it. That’s all in our Occupational Health and Safety Regulations. So we understood that. What I didn’t know, so I hired a guy, an expert with a CO2 oxygen monitor, to come and measure. And we recorded this. This is all on video. We are actually planning on launching a lawsuit on it.

Commissioner Massie
So to the best of your knowledge, the health authorities, whether in Saskatchewan or in Canada, are not aware of this potential health hazard?

Joseph Bourgault
Well, just a short story. In our company, the way people were wearing masks, we told them that if you are alone in your office or six feet away from others in workstations in the manufacturing facilities, that you wouldn’t have to wear a mask. Somebody possibly reported—it doesn’t matter—somebody possibly reported us. So three government officials came in unannounced and met with myself and our general manager and our human resources manager and I explained this to them. And they made a lot of notes because they didn’t know any of this.

Commissioner Massie
Is it acknowledged today with the new data that is coming from the work you’ve done or other people,

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that wearing masks on a constant basis could actually be a serious health hazard? Is it acknowledged by health authorities?

Joseph Bourgault
I would gladly work with any government official on this information to get it out. No government agencies have reached out to us to get this information out there.

Commissioner Massie
Thank you.

Commissioner Kaikkonen
You mentioned that it makes no rational or logical sense to be experimenting with our children. When we think of universities and colleges and the K-12 system, and now our pre-school, where all those educators who have the credentials behind their name were responsible or facilitators of their programs, what would you say to them now, knowing what they have done to our children and understanding what masking is doing?

Joseph Bourgault
Well, what I would love to see happen in our country is that we return to teaching the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, teach computers, accounting. But critical thinking skills, what I observed here in our country, I believe that what we saw: 70 to 80 per cent of Canadians, including professionals, have no critical thinking skills. To discern the truth is easy. You set the goal of truth. You keep an open mind. You listen to what anybody with any expertise has to say. You do your research and gather the facts as you would in a criminal trial. You gather the factual evidence and, based on the facts, using deductive reasoning and logic, you can discern the truth. That’s so simple. Why are we not teaching our children and university students how to solve problems?

Commissioner Kaikkonen
Thank you.

Commissioner Drysdale
Good afternoon, Mr. Bourgault. You talked extensively about the government and what they’ve done. But I would like you to comment briefly about the role of the media in this, the role of the colleges of physicians and surgeons. The government couldn’t impose this on their own without assistance, so can you talk a little bit about the role of the media and the colleges?

Joseph Bourgault
Well, agreed. Obviously, government, like a premier— Unless you’re a doctor or you’ve had life experience like myself, your government officials are going to have some difficulty in discerning truth on medical issues. So they rely on doctors and scientists for this information. But surely in Saskatchewan, in a province with 1.2 million people, or in Canada, there would be medical— And we have them, medical professionals like Dr. Francis Christian. There are many of them that were speaking up and they were silenced. To me, silencing the honest, truth-seeking doctors in our country: to me, that’s criminal, what they did. Because those doctors, around the world, could have saved millions of lives. But in Canada, they could have saved over 40,000 lives.

The media— I can’t encourage people enough to listen to Rodney Palmer on his presentation of what was taking place behind the scenes. Obviously, the Liberal-NDP government, using hundreds of millions of dollars to buy our media, to shut down journalism— In the words of Rodney Palmer, truth-seeking journalism had gone out the window. It became a propaganda arm of our governments with this narrative. And so there’s criminal activity in the media.

I believe there’s criminal activity in our medical agencies. I believe they’re controlled. Health Canada, I believe, is controlled. The pharmaceutical industry is there, and I think the World Health Organization. Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger, a World Health Organization scientist, explains really well what’s going on at the World Health Organization and how it has been corrupted by Bill Gates and his organization, GAVI. So there’s corruption right from the top.

Commissioner Drysdale
One last question, sir.

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Considering your extensive background in industry, I’m sure you’re somewhat aware of the anti-combine laws in Canada. And could you comment on how the current state of the media, the fact that we have so many mergers—and they just announced a big merger in Canada with the media organizations—how would this be allowed to have happened in Canada, considering the anti-combine laws that you were subject to? And do you think what has happened is a benefit or a negative to Canadians?

Joseph Bourgault
Thank you for that question. Diversity to me is nature. God is diversity and I never had trouble with competition in our industry. It’s essential to have competition. I don’t see anything that’s going to correct this monopolization, this centralization that is taking place in our society. And at CanadiansForTruth.ca I really encourage people to go there and read the principles that we espouse. The foundation of a just society and an enlightened society, I believe, flows from these basic principles. Recognizing God as our creator and all the principles and laws that He created to govern our existence. And so I think we need that type of political leadership, principled leaders that are not going to put up with bullshit and corruption. We need incorruptible people in positions of leadership in our country.

Shawn Buckley
Joseph, we’ve got a couple of more witnesses and we’re going to be sitting past six and you kind of segued off the question. Sorry about that.

No further questions. Joseph, on behalf of the National Citizens Inquiry, we sincerely thank you for attending and giving us this testimony today.

Joseph Bourgault
Right. Thank you.

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Final Review and Approval: Jodi Bruhn, August 21, 2023.

The evidence offered in this transcript is a true and faithful record of witness testimony given during the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) hearings. The transcript was prepared by members of a team of volunteers using an “intelligent verbatim” transcription method.

For further information on the transcription process, method, and team, see the NCI website: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/about-these-transcripts/

Summary

Joseph Bourgault is a longtime businessman with many years of experience in the management of his workforce. Previously injured by mercury poisoning that brought on chronic fatigue, Joseph had done his own research on natural health and healing when the conventional medical system was of no help with his condition. Armed with this knowledge, he immediately became alarmed when the COVID pandemic mandates were being forced on people with little to no public consultation or reason.

Joseph’s presentation touches on three extensively investigated points: 1. Therapeutics were being withheld by our governments causing deaths; 2. Natural therapeutics protocol put forth by Canadians for Truth was saving people; 3. Statistical evidence from the Government of Canada COVID-19 website that proved kids from 0-19 years of age were at ZERO risk of dying from COVID-19. Joseph also testified that mask wearing would be illegal under Occupational Health & Safety Standards as it reduced oxygen for the wearer and increased carbon dioxide to dangerous levels. Children running around a playground, exerting themselves would be breathing very high levels of carbon dioxide and their oxygen levels would be dangerously low.