On May 30, 2023, the day following Premier Smith’s re-election as Premier of Alberta, I decided to send her a letter encouraging her to take some immediate steps to correct some of the problems with Alberta Health Services (AHS) and our healthcare system. From past experience having sent emails to the Premier, all that I have received back in return have been automated replies saying, “This is to acknowledge that your email has been received. On behalf of Premier Danielle Smith, thank you for writing”. So, I decided to send an actual letter via Canada Post instead of by email. The content of my letter is reproduced below:
May 30, 2023
Dear Premier Smith,
First off, I want to heartily congratulate you on your re-election as Premier of Alberta! I can’t imagine an Alberta that would choose to elect a socialist government to shape our future, a stated purpose of the Alberta NDP according to their constitution.
Canadians have been trained for decades to believe that we have the best healthcare on the planet, when it is nothing of the sort. Canada has one of worst universal health care systems in the world when it comes to bang for the buck. More money, the usual answer from the big-government NDP, won’t fix Alberta’s broken health-care system. It’s in need of fundamental reform and more money won’t fix it.
I contend that the current decrepit state of our healthcare system can be laid at the feet of the NDP and Rachel Notley as the people at the top executive level of AHS were put in place by her, including Deena Hinshaw, a health bureaucrat, who was appointed by Notley in January 2019. Having been bounced by the UCP, Dr. Hinshaw has moved on to become deputy provincial health officer (second in command) under Bonnie Henry and the NDP government in B.C. One wonders if she was simply waiting in the wings, hoping to return to Alberta if the NDP had been elected in the recent election.
Hopefully, you will be the ‘gamechanger’ to bring about the needed reform to our healthcare system. We need to look at getting rid of central decision-making, the bloated AHS, centralized planning so enamoured by social governments, and bring decision-making back to the local level.
In the interim to implementing the much-needed substantial reforms I would like to recommend following measures to be implemented:
1) Replace the AHS’s Executive Team, many of whom were appointed by the NDP. Firing the AHS board does not deal with the real decision makers.
2) Having done that, the next step would be stop AHS from pushing the experimental Covid ‘vaccine’ shot on children as young as 6-months old. At the AHS web site, they claim “Protect Yourself & Others, Get Immunized”. That is criminal, especially pushing this upon children, as we know by now that these gene therapy jabs do not protect one from getting Covid nor prevent one from spreading it, and, as well, they are now known to cause all kinds of harm.
3) Another means to “Protect Yourself & Others” according to the AHS is to “Wear a mask”. There is no science to support this contention, which is just a means to exercise power and control. The imposition of the wearing of masks in AHS healthcare facilities must stop.
4) Finally, immediately remove the AHS from its membership in the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare as announced by the AHS in July 2020. Doing so would be consistent with your declaration that you want nothing to do with the globalist World Economic Forum and its influence on Alberta’s affairs.
I sincerely hope that you will proceed with such measures as described above as soon as possible in your term as Premier. Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Ronald H. Voss, Ph.D.
Cochrane, Alberta
When one goes to the AHS’s web page “COVID-19 Information for Albertans“, one sees that the Alberta Health Services (AHS) has clearly not learned anything through the past three years and dogmatically continues to push the same narrative about the Covid-19 ‘vaccines’ as in 2020 and 2021. AHS still maintains that “COVID-19 vaccines are the best way to protect you from getting severely sick from COVID-19 infection” and that “All vaccines are safe, effective and save lives”. They are neither safe, nor effective and actually cause the loss of lives. True immunization occurs through a vaccine whereby one is protected from contracting what one is being vaccinated for. It has become clear that these experimental gene therapies do not protect one from contracting Covid-19 nor do they prevent you from spreading it. There is no reason for the AHS to remain in the dark about this.
As far as wearing a mask, there is extensive evidence that wearing a mask (a face diaper) provides no protection against a virus, so the only reason to push it on people is to train them to be compliant to authority.
As far as the 6ft distance nobody knows where this arbitrary rule came from. The lockdowns and restrictions introduced during the so-called pandemic reminds one of a game of Simple Simon Says.
Infuriating that AHS continues to push the ‘vaccines’ upon children, as young as 6 months old, claiming that the ‘vaccine’ is “safe”. Are they unaware of the harm that has been caused by these so-called vaccines and are they unaware of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) put in place in the U.S. in 1990? It is a voluntary reporting system that has been estimated to account for only about 1% of vaccine injuries. At the AHS’s “COVID-19 Immunization for Children Under 12” page one finds a series of 20 videos with the AHS’s selected “experts” telling parents that the “Vaccines are safe and effective for children”. All of these vaccine promotional videos date from October 21, 2021. One such video, “Are vaccines safe for kids“, has a Dr. Ben Sivarajan of the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton telling parents that he “believes” an approved vaccine for kids 5-11 will be safe. His astonishing, baseless claim that “the safety profile of that (Covid-19 ‘vaccines’) in adult populations is probably one of the safest vaccines that we have made to date” is totally at odds with VAERS.
The chart above shows the number of reported yearly deaths due to all vaccines over a period of 32 years. The red bars show the deaths reported since the introduction of mRNA COVID-19 genetic ‘vaccines’ in 2021, represented by 22,500 deaths in 2021 and 12,250 deaths in 2022 for a total of about 35,000 deaths. There are more reported deaths for this so-called ‘vaccine’ over this two-year period than the accumulated deaths for over 70 other vaccines evaluated over the previous 30 years! The 35,000 deaths reported to VAERS for COVID-19 ‘vaccines’, are approximately four times greater than a total of 8,673 reported deaths for the preceding 30 years for all other vaccines. How can one look at such a chart and conclude that these rushed-out experimental Covid ‘vaccines’ are safe? By the end of 2022, in addition to deaths, about 1 ½ million other adverse events were reported for the mRNA COVID-19 genetic ‘vaccines’, including heart attacks, myocarditis/pericarditis, and miscarriages. According to a Harvard study, only about 1% of the adverse events are actually reported as part of this voluntary system.
For more about these so-called ‘vaccines’, see the section “Safe and Effective?” in a previous blog post, “Gleanings from FOI Request Related to the Town of Cochrane’s Imposition of Vaccine Mandates – Part 2” from January 2023.