WEEKLY WHEELBARROW MAIL CAMPAIGN

THE ISSUE AT HAND

From May 24 - 29, 2024 representatives of member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) are set to ratify two crucial documents. The 2005 version of the International Health Regulations (IHR) is to be updated 

and the WHO Pandemic Treaty is to be signed. 

The IHR is focussed on regulations around health internationally, while the Pandemic Treaty functions as an international trade document focused on biotechnologies around pathogen identification, genetic sequencing and vaccine development. 

As such, it serves as a policy agenda and framework to promote the use of biotechnology to develop new products, markets and uses of pathogens to be identified in member nations of the WHO.  

Not only was the public notice period shortened from 4 months to 4 weeks, 

there are MANY problems it the content of both documents. IN PARTICULAR, taken together they violate international Bioweapons Treaties but many other issues are outlined below.

The current request is that the vote on these two docments be taken OFF THE AGENDA for May 27 - June 1 and DEFERRED till 2026 when it can be significantly reworked. 

In the leaked proposed draft of the “resolution” to be presented to the 77th World Health Assembly, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body seems to want to mandate the Director-General “to implement with immediate effect” specific articles of the proposed “Pandemic Agreement.” (Update from April 27, 2024) https://substack.com/home/post/p-144075203 

                   Source: US Bioweapon expert Dr. Meryl Nass. Presentation given in Rome, Italy, April 19, 2024

3) Recent updates from those who follow the topic very closely

EVENT planned for June 1. International freedom movement to protest World Health Organization pandemic treaty, Thousands of people from Europe, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand say they plan to descend on the United Nations on June 1 to declare independence from global institutions such as the World Health Organization and World Economic Forum, while celebrating cultural and individual sovereignty. See: https://www.thegenevaproject.org  and https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/04/international-freedom-movement-to-converge-at-un-to-protest-world-health-organizations-pandemic-treaty/ 

New from April 28, 2024 Former WHO medical officer and scientist David Bell posted a thorough update here: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-new-ihr-changes-are-merely-cosmetic/ 

New from April 28, 2024 Dr. Meryl Nass wrote: "I think the inability of the Treaty and IHR committees to create a final draft of either document, despite scheduling extra negotiating sessions almost up until their scheduled votes, reveals the truth: this was not a “nation-led” effort to solve a dire problem, but rather a problem and solutions imposed from above, for which there is no consensus.

Furthermore, nations were supposed to get the newly amended IHR draft in January, and they didn’t. Health ministries then told parliamantarians they would get the final versions in April. That won’t happen.

Presumably a huge effort will be made to get nations to sign on despite having only about a week or so to see and evaluate the final drafts of both documents before the WHA meeting commences on May 27.

The DELAY the VOTE effort now makes a great deal of sense. How can nations properly assess these documents, filled with twists and turns, internal contradictions and deliberately vague language, in such a short time?  Delay the vote until next year. By then, hopefully the whole idea will have withered on the vine." https://merylnass.substack.com/p/my-talk-in-genoa-and-what-else-ive 

NEW from April 27, 2024 James Rogulski notes:

Did you notice this detail in the latest leaked document?

In the leaked proposed draft of the “resolution” to be presented to the 77th World Health Assembly, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body seems to want to mandate the Director-General “to implement with immediate effect” specific articles of the proposed “Pandemic Agreement.”

Why is it considered vital for the Director-General “to implement with immediate effect” the specified articles?

WHY? (See: https://substack.com/home/post/p-144075203) 

NEW from April 27, 2024 James Rogulski reported on a group of 22 associations including the Centre for Health Science and Law (Canada) who have added their concerns with the Pandemic Treaty. "As May 2024 is approaching, there is tremendous pressure on Member States to conclude the negotiations at the earliest to facilitate the adoption of a Pandemic Instrument during the 77th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA). This is, in turn, becoming a pressure on WHO Member States to either compromise, give up or postpone their equity demands especially on issues related to equitable access, technology transfer, a comprehensive multilateral access and benefit sharing system, and financing implementation of the instrument. At the same time, there are attempts to impose legally binding obligations on surveillance and information sharing with no provisions for financial and technological support to do so. 

We, the undersigned organisations, strongly call upon Member States to resist such inappropriate pressure. While timelines are important for concluding the negotiations of the Pandemic Instrument, there is no value in having an instrument without concrete deliverables or enforceable provisions on equity, the absence of which reinforces the highly inequitable status quo."  https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/a-pandemic-instrument-that-does-not 

NEW from April 24, 2024 Dr. Meryl Nass' analysis of the wording of the current drafts - a few of the worrisome details have been 'addressed' but not really. Different wording with similar meanings has been added in other sections to essentially lead to the same result as wording that has been removed. Please see https://merylnass.substack.com/p/door-to-freedom-team-shines-a-light.

NEW from April 7, 2024 (updated April 15) As the deadline approaches for the 194 member nations of the World Health Organization (WHO) to sign agreements granting broad new powers to this U.N. subsidiary, its advocates are turning up the heat on member countries to get on board, despite growing resistance to the deal.

On March 20, WHO Ambassador and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed a campaign by a “100+ pantheon of global leaders” urging member nations to sign. “A high-powered intervention by 23 former national Presidents, 22 former Prime Ministers, a former UN General Secretary, and 3 Nobel Laureates is being made today to press for an urgent agreement from international negotiators on a Pandemic Accord, under the Constitution of the World Health Organization, to bolster the world’s collective preparedness and response to future pandemics,” stated a press release from the office of Gordon and Sarah Brown. The WHO ambassador also called for worldwide action to “expose fake news disinformation campaigns by conspiracy theorists trying to torpedo international agreement for the Pandemic Accord.”...On March 18, more than 80 ministers and church organizations added their voices to the “pantheon,” telling delegates from member countries that “reaching an agreement that ensures that everyone, everywhere can benefit from scientific advancement” was a moral obligation. https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/amidst-growing-resistance-the-who-turns-up-heat-on-members-to-sign-pandemic-treaty-5623098?ea_src=author_manual&ea_med=related_stories 

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To read the latest copy of the Pandemic Treaty - https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb9/A_inb9_3Rev1-en.pdf Note that many of the items are empty shells with details to be filled in which the signataure process begins already this June (2 months from now).

To read the latest copy of the IHR - https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr8/WGIHR8_Proposed_Bureau_text-en.pdf Video commentary is available here: https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/the-battle-against-the-who-is-not 

4) A Slide Show about Getting Information, Taking Action and                    Sharing Information

A PDF of the slide show can be downloaded here. (Coming soon)

5) A listing of KEY MESSAGES - showing the major concerns about the two documents or the process being used.

Copies of these KEY CONCERNS are avaible at this link (PDF) and this link (MS WORD).

KEY MESSAGES:

🛑 Canadians do NOT support signing on to terms of a deal they have only been given 5 weeks to analyze.                     Neither should our government. The voting draft of the IHR document was released on April 17, instead of the required four full months in advance of the upcoming 77th gathering of the World Health Assembly (WHA77). Canada's government should insist that the agenda item of passing amendments to the IHR in particular cannot legitimately be tabled this year at the WHA 2024. Doing so would jeopardize procedural justice, as well as democratic legitimacy,                                                  and equitable outcomes for all.

🛑 The amount of Canada's contributions to the WHO will not be revealed until December 2026.                                          We can't sign on before knowing the full cost. (And Canada has been proportionately overpaying for years.)

🛑 Giving ONE SINGLE human being (the Director General of the WHO) the sole authority to UNILATERALLY declare 'Early Action Alerts', 'Pandemic Emergencies' and 'Public Heath Emergencies of International Concern' WITHOUT OVERSIGHT and WITHOUT CHECKS AND BALANCES on his/her power is UNACCEPTABLE.

🛑 Experts in the prevention or containment of bioweapon production were NOT included as contributors to the terms of the Pandemic Agreement. As it currently stands, the WHO Pandemic Treaty violates international law. In particular, it violates the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, the 2004 Security Council Resolution 1540 and 'customary international law.' The Treaty needs to be seriously reworked to ensure safety and LEGALITY!

🛑 Internationally reknowned biowarfare experts, including US Dr. Meryl Nass, have pointed out how the plans by the WHO to develop a global network of "BioHubs" for the digital sharing of genetic codes will lead to an increased number of pandemics. As shared codes are inevitably hacked, the potential of "rogue" developers who can apply gain of function research tactics to increase the lethality of naturally occurring pathogens will ensure that what rolled out with COVID-19 will become a regular occurrence. 

🛑 While it is true that nothing in the WHO Pandemic Agreement/Treaty shall be interpreted as providing the WHO secretariat, including the WHO director general, any authority to direct, order, alter or otherwise prescribe the domestic laws or policies of any party … it is also true that authority is outlined in the proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) instead. For example, recent prior drafts of Articles 13A, 14, 18, 41 and 43 contain language around states recognizing the WHO as “the guidance and coordinating authority of international public health response during public health Emergency of International Concern and undertake to follow WHO’s recommendations in their international health response”. That nations should continue allowing for the regulatory approval of pandemic products (vaccines or drugs) without proper review.  And that the WHO may “require medical examination”, “require vaccination or other prophylaxis”, “implement quarantine” and ”‘isolation and treatment” of member states, among other recommendations. And that measures “shall be initiated and completed without delay by all state parties."  And furthermore, that "additional health measures" (such as off-patent antiviral drugs) shall be restricted under the excuse that they are "disproportionate or excessive." This latter point will lead to continued persecution of physicians and patients who seek natural health products, vitamin therapies or proven antiviral therapeutics for the prevention or treatment of illness.

🛑 When pandemic-related emergencies are declared, any country that signs on to these agreements,                                    will need to comply with the WHO's mitigation techniques. This will mean that Canadians travelling to these countries AND all staff facilitating this travel can once again face vaccine and masking mandates, the use of tracking technology, such as digital ID and vaccine passes, as well as quarantines. The WHO had an abysmal track record when it came to these measures the first time. There are no indications that the WHO will deviate from these harmful procedures with any subsequent pathogen. Current estimates of deaths related specifically to the injections of COVID-19 vaccine products have reached 17 million world wide. Canadians expect their government to learn from mistakes made, not repeat them.                                             The fewer nations that sign on to these measures, the better.

🛑 The current text continues to include coercing non-governmental entities (such as employers, charities, etc. ) to comply with government dictates. We have seen enough evidence of how lockdowns WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL in "flattening the curve" and how they imposed great harm upon the elderly, the vulnerable, the children, the business community and society at large. We have seen enough evidence of how actual COVID-19 prevention and treatment protocols were suppressed, how deaths were falsely reported as COVID-19 related and how much sway pharmaceutical companies had over media and government messengers.                                                                                                                                        Canadians do NOT wish a repeat performance of this horror show, not now, now ever.

🛑 The current text to be voted on includes provisions for the public disclosure of private data and for ongoing surveillance of citizens. Current advances in technology and current legislation in various countries now make the surveillance of citizens more of a reality than was the case in 2020. Canadians do NOT consent to binding legislation that violates essential rights to privacy of information and freedom of thought, expression and association. 

 🛑 The current text to be voted on includes provision for continued censorship of what is falsely defined as "misinformation". Canadians have been greatly harmed by the lack of balance in news reporting and online sharing of information. Information Suppression and Omission have replaced Information Integrity. Government funded and corporate aligned media outlets have clearly violated their own ethical guidelines when it comes to ensuring that a true diversity of voices and opposing viewpoints is broadcast into the public sphere. Canadians demand a return to true Information Integrity and cannot consent to our government willingly submitting to demands for censorship by unelected bureaucrats in outside agencies. 

🛑 While it is laudable to want to prepare for future pandemics, to do so under the auspices of the WHO is counter productive. More efforts should be made to secure the safe, effective and inexpensive (off patent) medications and therapeutics that enabled developing countries to weather the COVID storm with less loss of life and fewer residual vaccine injuries than those countries who adhered to the WHO COVID-19 guidelines.

 🛑 The current text to be voted on does NOT included the amendments advocated for by the African Nations as represented by the Pan-African Epidemic and Pandemic Working Group. Developing countries wanted assurances when they report new pathogens to the WHO and when those pathogens are then sequenced for the production of new vaccines. They require that the financial benefits are shared with their countries.  In other words, the current text undermines equity by signing over all potential profits to Western pharmaceutical companies without ensuring that such profits remain in the country of origin. Canadians recognize the situation as one of continued colonialism. Just as today's developing nations were robbed of their natural resources by Western corporate interests in the past, so too now, developing nations are being "mined" not for gold but for the "gold" that local pathogens and their genetic sequences can bring to Western corporate interests. Governments that support EQUITY cannot in good conscience support the direction currently outlined in the Pandemic Treaty. Canada needs to PULL OUT if it is to stand as a beacon for EQUITY.

🛑 Canadians who advocate for human rights also cannot in good conscience support their government signing on to the IHR knowing that in earlier drafts of Articles 2 & 3 Human Rights have been deleted. What once read: "the implementation of these regulations shall be with full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons"  now reads: "the implementation of these regulations shall be based on the principles of equity, inclusivity, coherence and in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities."  While the latter sounds lovely, it is meaningless. Human rights must continue to take priority in anything Canada signs on to.

🛑 80% of the WHO's funding is made up of "voluntary contributions" (i.e. fees and donations from pharmaceutical companies and pro-vaccine organizations) instead of from the contributions of member nations. Of those, 90% are "earmarked" for purposes determined by the donors. So even the WHO can't budget freely.                                                      Why should Canada sign on to that? Clearly, the control of the entire funding model of the WHO and its parent organization, the United Nations, needs to be clawed back from corporate interests and the interests of corporate-backed NGOs.

🛑 American legislators are pushing their Senate to vote “NOT NOW!” given the very short time-frame prior to the planned vote at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 27-29.                                                                                      Canadian lawmakers have so far ignored the 20,000 Canadians who petitioned that this topic be discussed in the House of Commons and the 90,000+ signatures on a further petition to direct Canada's representative to the WHO to initiate the process for Canada to WITHDRAW from the WHO (and ultimately from the United Nations).

Copies of these KEY CONCERNS are avaible at this link (PDF) and this link (MS WORD).

6) Links to PRESS RELEASES and other helpful documents & weblinks

a) The US Sovereignty Coalition presented a press conference in front of the White House, explaining the need for the WHO to DEFER the VOTE on the Pandemic Treatyand IHR ammendments. See the press conference HERE and a summary of the event here (PDF) (MS Word). This document can be shared with media, politicians, etc. 

LINKS COMING SOON

7) Letter writing templates and example letters 

(downloadable in MS Word and PDF formats.)

Summary

Canadians can express their concerns about the WHO and UN to the MPs via WEEKLY postage-free letters! 

Below you find links to pre-written letters that can easily be customized. 

#1-17 were written earlier, before the voting drafts of the two documents were released.

#20 onward are drafted around more recent documentation. It is recommended you start with these more recent letters OR you select from the KEY POINTS shown above while adding your own concerns, possibly following this template.

Notes:

• Visit this countdown clock to see how many days remain until the 77th World Health Assembly starts. Let your Member of Parliament know how few days remain as you write.                               (The clock is courtesy of a US action group demanding that the US & Member States exit the W.H.O. due to lack of science integrity.)

• If possible, plan to send one letter in each of the remaining weeks until May 27. 

• You can find the name of your MP at https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search.

• Postage is not required to send mail to the office of the MP in Ottawa. Use the address shown on the letter template above.

Note: Your riding MP is obliged to respond to you within 90 days of receipt of your written letter. There appears to be no such obligation with emailed letters. You may choose to  include a questionnaire in one of the letters you send to your riding MP. 

• Also send a copy of the same letter (without the questionnaire) to all of the following:

1. The Minister of Health (The Honorable Mark Holland)

2. Minister of Foreign Affairs (The Honorable Melanie Joly)

3. Shadow Minister of Health  (The Honorable Dr. Stephen Ellis)

4. Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs (The Honorable Michael Chong) 

5. If our 1867-1982 Canadian Constitution, the 1960 Canadian Bill of Rights or the Canadian Criminal Code is involved, include the Minister of Justice (The Honorable Arif Virani), and Shadow Minister of Justice (Rob Moore)

So,  at minimum,  you send the same letter to at least 5 Members of Parliament, which multiplies the effect of sending a single letter.

If 10% of 90,000 PEOPLE WHO SIGNED THE PETITION, began sending letters at the start of the campaign, THEN there will be already almost half a million letters sent. 

At the end of May email a tally of the letters you sent to canadaexitwho@proton.me. Scroll to the bottom for more details.

Response Tracking 

We are currently exploring the options for keeping track of politicians' responses. 

In meanwhile, you can send an email to canadaexitwho@proton.me with feedback and any information you wish to share. 

Your contact and information will not be shared or used anywhere, except for the purpose identified here, which is tracking the politicians' responses. Consider taking a photo of each set of addressed envelopes before mailing them to help document your letter-writing activities.

BREAKING (2024-03-28):
Disposition of e-petition 4623 (Canada Exit UN / WHO)

The petitions website shows that e-petition 4623 (Canada exit UN/WHO) was presented to the House of Commons on Friday 22 March 2024:

• https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4623, and

• https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Search?type=&keyword=&sponsor=&RPP=20&order=Recent&category=All&text=4623 

However, it is NOT recorded in Hansard nor on the CPAC video of Friday's sitting of the House:

• https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/house/sitting-294/hansard (On the right hand side, click "Routine Proceedings" then click "Petitions")

Twelve petitions are listed, which were presented live in the House, and are recorded in Hansard and on the CPAC video beginning at 2:23:34 until 2:35:55 (less than 13 minutes):

• https://www.cpac.ca/house-of-commons-proceedings/episode/march-22-2024?id=5a93ee41-d24c-439b-a961-8ac0fc2c3aee 

Ms. Lewis's petitions are absent. 

The clerk of petitions explained that Ms. Lewis filed the petition with the clerk of the House and that all petitions are recorded in the daily Journal whether presented live to the House while sitting or filed with the clerk of the House:

• https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/house/latest/journals?col=2  (Scroll down to the bottom to heading "Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House." Links there show petition details.) 

  • PETITIONS FILED WITH THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE
    — by Ms. Lewis (Haldimand—Norfolk), one concerning health (No. 441-02275) and one concerning foreign affairs (No. 441-02276).

The response from Ms. Lewis' office is that the time for presenting petitions had ended when she arrived at the house. She had been prepared to present it on previous occasions but the limited time allotted for petitions was used up before she had an opportunity to speak. The time of day for petitions varies day by day and is adjusted depending on other business.  Rather than wait for a future opportunity to present live, which would be at least 2 weeks away, because of Easter break, she filed with the clerk of the house so that the government's written response, which is required within 45 days, would be available before the WHO votes on adopting the IHR amendments in May.

To continue supporting the Canada Exit UN / WHO campaign, please send the letter (updated 2024-03-28) to MPs, Senators, and MLAs using the link below:

https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/promo/5hC  (mirror: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=21898)

For your convenience, the text of the letter is also available at this link

BREAKING NEWS (2024-04-12) Guarding against Claims of  Disinformation

It looks like the WHO annual meeting will go ahead even though they missed the 4 month notificaiton period deadline. (The option would have been to defer this agenda item to the meeing in May 2025.)

James Rogulski has been able to locate the current drafts of the documents as they are being revised for the final time. Based on these, he is reminding everyone that the tone of our messaging might need to change. See: https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/red-herrings  Letters #21 on will reflect this change of tone.