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“As the famous Nobel laureate physicist, Steven Hawking...” -- Sadly, Hawking died without ever having received a Nobel prize. Also, it’s “Stephen,” not “Steven.” Makes me a little reluctant to read the other 5,000+ pages of this tome if the authors/editors can’t even get this right...

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Dang, that's too bad.

Good catch.

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Interesting. I think your headline could’ve been ‘Special Enquiry Set up to Reach a Particular Set of Conclusions Reaches the Exact Conclusions it Was Set up to Reach’

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Typical.

What's really interesting is that that's precisely what our government's response was.

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Is that an inaccurate response?

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Which response? Yours, mine, or the government's?

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The government’s response. Didn’t you say that my response and the government’s response was the same? That this ‘enquiry’ came up with the findings that it was created specifically to find. That’s accurate, isn’t it?

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It was based on hundreds of hours of expert testimony. Obviously there would've been no reason for it if everyone trusted our government's response.

From the intro:

The National Citizens Inquiry was established under strict guidelines, which include the following:

1.3.1. Independence: The Inquiry must be truly independent. Inquiry Commissioners were

selected on the basis of experience, competence, and credibility, and not for any pre￾conceived positions they might hold on the issues dealt with by the Inquiry.

1.3.2. Citizen-Supported: The authority of the Inquiry must rest on a mandate received from

significant numbers of Canadian citizens across the country who have made repeated

calls for an independent and objective review of governments‘ pandemic measures.

This mandate was further reinforced by such citizens adding their names to the Petition

of Support for a National Citizens Inquiry provided on the Inquiry‘s website:

www.citizensinquirycanada.ca.

1.3.3. Open and Transparent: The Inquiry‘s investigation and related activities were

undertaken in an open and transparent basis, free of biases or preconceived

conclusions.

1.3.4. Truthfulness: All persons who participated in the Inquiry were only able to submit oral or

written testimony under oath, dutifully sworn before the Commission representatives.

1.3.5. Evidence-Based: The deliberations and conclusions of the Inquiry are evidence-based,

with any and all testimony received (including that containing extreme claims and

conspiratorial charges) being subject to cross examination. The submitted evidence for

all arguments, claims, and/or positions are publicly available through the Inquiry‘s

website.

1.3.6. Respect: The Inquiry insisted that all participants exhibit mutual respect for the

evidence, opinions, beliefs, and statements before the commissioners, in accordance

with the principles of facilitating reconciliation and healing.

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That all sounds great, I'm just saying that it was a foregone conclusion.

Regardless of your opinion on the government's response to COVID-19, nobody can honestly say they were waiting on the results of this inquiry to find out what its findings would be. It's theatre, for the fans.

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