(0:00 - 0:52) Good evening, I'm Will Dove and these are the top stories for Wednesday, April 30th. In another Iron Wire exclusive that you will not hear on Legacy Media, a Vancouver federal court has given the go-ahead for a class action suit against the federal government on behalf of federal public employees over damages suffered as a result of vaccine mandates. The group, FedsForFreedom, will represent potentially thousands of government employees seeking compensation for wrongful dismissal and lost wages. If successful, the suit will set a precedent for non-governmental employees to take similar legal action in the future. I'm joined now by Stacey Payne, one of the plaintiffs and a founding member of FedsForFreedom, with the details on the case. Stacey, thank you for taking the time for this interview. (0:53 - 2:37) Thank you for having us. Now, you're a representative of FedsForFreedom and one of the plaintiffs in the case that you're wanting to bring before the courts, representing federal public employees who were coerced into taking the shots and you've had something extremely important happen in that process in the Vancouver court. Please explain what's happened. Yes, we have been pursuing justice since 2021 and recently we had a positive outcome in the Vancouver courts. The courts agreed with our case and denied the motion to dismiss for our 2(d) argument, Freedom of Association. Our second argument is misfeasance in public office and this one we will need to provide more evidence or a named plaintiff who falls under the RCMP CBA in order to bring this argument forward. Okay, so where are we at at this point in time? I know that the government of course has appealed the court's decision to allow this case to proceed. No surprise there, they don't want this to come to light, but where are FedsForFreedom at? What are you needing at this point in time to proceed? Yes, so we are currently about to go to the federal court of appeals to stand up for the decision made in the Vancouver courts and during this time while we wait for the judicial system, we are working on a fundraising for our class action. One of the requirements of getting a class action certified in Canada is having the means to pay your lawyer. (2:38 - 8:41) So, as we are all, you know, not of wealth backgrounds, we are looking to crowdfund this and that's where FedsForFreedom comes in. It supports the plaintiffs and it organizes the fundraising activities for these plaintiffs. So, we have a website fedsforfreedom.ca and you can donate directly through the website. You can e-transfer if you're not comfortable with that platform or you can shop on our online store that we've launched. We also have multiple memberships as well to get involved. Now, you're being represented, I believe, by Umar Sheikh of Sheikh Law in Vancouver and of course, Umar has done quite a number of these sorts of cases and he's won a few. So, there's definitely hope there that this could happen and so the outcome of this would be, assuming that you get passed in this next step, then I assume what would come after that is now you can start looking for your co-plaintiffs. The class action suit, of course, you can get all these federal employees who want to bring this suit before the courts to hold the government accountable for forcing them to take these injections and I'm sure many of them have had their health damaged by it. So, there's going to be that to deal with as well. Should this case go forward and let's hope that it does and that you win, what kind of damages are you looking for? There's an array of damages we'll be looking for. We'll be looking for back pay for the members who were forcibly placed on leave without pay. We'll be looking for the benefits that we were forced to pay yet not able to access when we were laid off. The payment for those back in our pockets. We'll be looking for punitive damages, mental hardship damages and there's actually past case precedent in the Supreme Court of Canada that supports these requests based on the 2D Charter argument. So, potentially how many federal public employees are we looking at? Our members, sorry, our not-for-profit started out as a small little Facebook group and we had about 5,000 members join us right off the hop. It got shut down and through gathering everyone back, we have approximately 100 paying members who are interested in the class action lawsuit and participate monthly. We have approximately another 50 members who have a lower membership type but our social media groups are upwards of 4,000 people. So, we did some rough calculations via the information we have with the federal government and the employees inside of it and we believe that a number between 3,000 and 5,000 would be possible and that would be if you qualify for our defining class definitions. Now, I would say the most important takeaway from this, Stacey, is that, sure, right now you're just looking at a case that represents federal public unionized employees but if you win, that set a precedent and now you've opened the door for unionized employees of all types across Canada to file their own class action suits against their employers for coercing them into taking these shots or for firing them or whatever as a result of these mandates. Exactly. This case isn't just important for Canadian federal public servants, it's important for all unionized Canadians across the board and we're arguing our 2(d) right, freedom to associate, so that surrounds our right to collective bargain and that's what we're saying didn't happen. When this was implemented, PSAC was actually in active collective bargaining and PSAC is one of the biggest federal government unions with about 300 members. So, when you're in active collective bargaining, you can actually invoke section 107 of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Employment Act and you can stop any new term and condition to be applied to your collective bargaining agreement while you're in collective bargaining. We asked for that to happen, we were ignored, we were labelled as racist, anti-semitic, sexist employees who should not even be discussing this with our union. We were locked out of our union hall as well. So, that's why we believe we have a strong argument. We followed the process, we went through the labour board as well and we were denied our grievance through the labour board and now it's time to take it into the federal courts and actually set case precedents. Alright, so obviously if people are federal employees and they want to be involved, they should go to fedsforfreedom.ca but there's going to be a lot of other Canadians, I think, who will be very concerned with this. What can they do to help? Right now, they can help us fundraise, help us get the message out, share our social media. We're on all social media platforms, we're trying to engage with everyone and really just support us with your kind words, you know, any way you can. Join our groups, join our membership if you want to learn more about the ins and outs of our class action and what we're doing on a week-to-week basis. Buy a t-shirt, a hat, you know, whatever you can do, every little bit helps and, you know, if everyone donated a toonie, well, we'd have the money we need to show the judge we're a capable and competent class action in no time at all. Alright, thank you so much, Stacey. Thank you. You will find the link to FedsForFreedom below this interview at The Iron Wire. A recent poll conducted by Ledger for secondstreet.org has found that Canadians overwhelmingly support increased accountability in the healthcare sector, with 86% of respondents backing Debbie's Law, which would require health regions to notify patients if they cannot provide life-saving treatment within the recommended time frame. (8:42 - 14:37) The poll, which surveyed 1,568 Canadians online between March 14th to 17th, also found that 82% of respondents support a policy requiring health regions to track and report annual wait times and patient outcomes, including whether patients died while waiting for procedures. Additionally, 64% of respondents believe that government hospitals should disclose waitlist deaths, just like governments require restaurants to disclose minor mistakes, highlighting the need for greater transparency in the healthcare system, as noted by Colin Craig, president of secondstreet.org, and Harrison Fleming, secondstreet.org's legislative and policy director. The proposed Debbie's Law was inspired by the case of Debbie Fewster, a Manitoba mother and grandmother who died after being forced to wait over two months for life-saving heart surgery due to scheduling delays at the hospital, and her family has stated that they would have sought alternative treatment options if they had been informed of the delays earlier. The poll's findings suggest that Canadians expect their healthcare system to be upfront about wait times and patient outcomes, and that policymakers should introduce Debbie's law to increase transparency and accountability in the healthcare sector, as emphasized by Harrison Fleming, who noted that healthcare transparency has more support from Canadians than any other issue in recent memory. Dr. Reiner Fuellmich has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison by the Göttingen court, with the judge refusing to take into account the five months he has already spent in pretrial detention in what is seen as an act of vengeance. The five months were the result of a delay in the trial caused by the actions of the German courts. Fuellmich has been in prison for over 18 months since his wrongful arrest in October 2023. While the court did not take into account the additional five months caused by their delays, they did reduce the sentence by his other time served, for a total sentence of two years and eight months. While in prison, Reiner released an audio-only statement last fall where he explained the persecution he was being subjected to in order to prevent him from presenting his case. He began by apologizing for the delay in making his statement, then went on to explain the reasons for the delay. The reason for this delay in getting this new information out to you is that both the court and the prison authorities are doing everything in their power to make it all but impossible, both for my lawyers and me to communicate with each other, and also impossible for me to focus and concentrate on the legal strategy for my case. How can that be? How do they do this? You probably ask. Well, my lawyers cannot call me by phone. They cannot send me anything by email, as I have neither a computer nor access to the internet. And if they send me a fax, this fax is held back from me for days. That's why I haven't been able yet to give you the above-mentioned information about the new evidence. For you to be able to fully understand the circumstances under which the defense and I have to defend my case, I'll give you some additional information, some of which you already know. For the past four months, I have been kept in solitary confinement with neither any notice or a hearing, that is willfully an arbitrarily. For the past four months, I have been driven to and from court, not just in handcuffs, but in handcuffs chained to a leather belt around my waist and shackled, accompanied by heavily armed officers with bulletproof vests, who tell me every time I sign a waiver declaring that I do not want to wear a bulletproof vest, that a stray bullet might hit and kill me, and that that would then be my problem. The trial was widely criticized for mocking the rule of law and being based on absurd accusations, and the verdict is not unexpected, given the system's history of punishing critics of the government and its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fuellmich is not alone in his fight, and his sentencing is seen as a spark that will ignite the real battle against the system, which has planned great catastrophes for humanity, including the imposition of harmful and unlawful measures such as gene therapy vaccinations. Just as has happened here in Canada, the German system has a history of punishing doctors who have helped their patients with vaccination certificates or exemption certificates, while rewarding those who have complied with the government's narrative, and Dr. Fuellmich's ability to dismantle the staging of the pandemic and name the culprits has made him a target for the authorities. As he left the court in handcuffs to shouts of freedom from his supporters after sentencing, Dr. Fuellmich had this to say. Despite his sentencing, Dr. Fuellmich is far from finished with the system, and he has vowed he will continue to fight for justice and accountability, both nationally and internationally, using his knowledge and expertise to hold those responsible for the pandemic and its aftermath accountable for their actions. (14:38 - 14:43) I'm Will Dove, and those are the top stories for today, Wednesday, April 30th.