Fri Nov 4, 2022 – 4:00 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A former Leader of the Official Opposition will lead an inquiry into the “unprecedented” COVID mandates imposed on Canadians by all levels of government.
Preston Manning, formerly both an MP and the sole leader of Canada’s Reform Party, announced during an Ottawa press conference on Wednesday that the National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI) will investigate the “magnitude of these interventions.”
“[The series of COVID mandates] demands a comprehensive, transparent, and objective inquiry into the appropriateness and efficacy of the measures imposed,” said Manning.
“We need to determine what worked and what didn’t and identify how we can respond better in the future.”
The NCI is a federally incorporated not-for-profit and will include experts in medicine and law.
According to NCI, government COVID mandate “interventions impacted the physical and mental health, civil liberties and fundamental freedoms, jobs and livelihoods, and overall social and economic wellbeing of nearly all Canadians.”
“Such an inquiry cannot be commissioned or conducted impartially by our governments as it is their responses and actions to the COVID-19 which would be under investigation,” NCI explained.
NCI said the inquiry will take place in early 2023, in which it will “hear
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