From LifeSiteNews

By Clare Marie Merkowsky

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis has condemned the Liberal government for accepting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) health regulations.

In a July 21 post on X, Lewis revealed that Canada missed the deadline to reject WHO amendments to the International Health Regulations, thereby accepting the regulations which seek to control countries’ health measures.

“Canada did not reject these binding regulations, which would grant power to the WHO to influence Canada’s public health response during global health crises,” Lewis wrote.

“Not only did Canada fail to reject these amendments, there was also no Parliamentary discussion surrounding these changes, which have potential implications for our national sovereignty and our ability to respond as we see fit in times of crisis,” she continued.

Lewis further pointed out that countries including the United States and Italy have rejected the amendments, which are warned to undermine national sovereignty.

In an interview with LifeSiteNews, Campaign Life Coalition’s Jack Fonseca warned that “Mark Carney’s acceptance of the WHO amendments represents a major step into tyranny and subservience for Canadians. It represents a loss of freedom and autonomy for every Canadian where unelected bureaucrats in far away lands will have control over our lives.

“Many of us have not forgotten how Trudeau used a declared ‘pandemic’ to bring in a Nazi-style system of discrimination using vaccine passports and medical segregation,” he recalled. “We have not forgotten how Canadians who refused to take abortion-tainted Covid injections were subjected to social ostracization and exclusion from economic life.”

“How they were banned from being employed by the government, fired from their private sector jobs, denied entry into restaurants, cinemas, sporting events, swimming pools and other public venues, and banned from travel on planes, trains and ships,” Fonseca continued. “We remember how un-jabbed students were denied enrolment in Canadian universities and de-enrolled even midway through their programs.”

“By embracing the WHO International Health Regulations, the proud globalist, Mark Carney, has ensured that the same medical tyranny can be visited upon us again with the declaration by unelected, power-mad WHO bureaucrats of a new ‘pandemic,’” Fonseca declared.

READ: Trump admin rejects WHO amendments, citing threats to sovereignty, free speech

Lewis has previously warned that the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) will compromise Canada’s autonomy by giving the international organization increased power over Canadians in the event of an “emergency.”

“Canada consented to the amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), which limits Canada’s time to respond to further amendments, despite thousands of Canadians signing a petition expressing their concerns,” Lewis said at the time, referring to a petition she endorsed demanding that the Liberal government “urgently” withdraw from the United Nations and its WHO subgroup due to these concerns.

The petition warned that the “secretly negotiated” amendments could “impose unacceptable, intrusive universal surveillance, violating the rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Canadian Bill of Rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

In her post this week, Lewis also called out the Liberal government for appointing an interim Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Howard Njoo, who is the vice-chair of the WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework Advisory Group.

“Canadians deserve a government that cares about protecting our national sovereignty. Unelected international bureaucrats do not know better than Canadians, and should not have authority over how Canada governs,” she declared.

However, the Liberals, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, appear unconcerned with signing away Canada’s sovereignty.

In May, Carney adopted the WHO’s Pandemic Agreement, despite warnings that the agreement gives the globalist entity increased power in the event of another “pandemic.”

Among the most criticized parts of the agreement is the affirmation that “the World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating authority on international health work, including on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

While the agreement claims to uphold “the principle of the sovereignty of States in addressing public health matters,” it also calls for a globally unified response in the event of a pandemic, stating plainly that “[t]he Parties shall promote a One Health approach for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”

From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

On the first day of the Freedom Convoy leaders’ sentencing trial, lawyers working on behalf of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Mark Carney inferred that the protest led by Tamara Lich and Chris Barber was tantamount to an occupation of the nation’s capital.

Lich and Barber are in Ottawa for a sentencing hearing after earlier this year being found guilty of mischief for leading the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests against COVID mandates.

Government prosecutors, as reported by LifeSiteNews, are looking to lock Lich up in jail for no less than seven years and her counterpart, Barber, for eight years.

In court on Wednesday, July 23, government lawyers claimed that the entire city of Ottawa was “under siege.”

Lich attended the hearing and Barber joined via videoconference.

Prosecutors started court proceedings by reading Victim Impact Statements (VIS), which were only submitted in writing and not delivered orally.

The VIS claimed negative consequences to local businesses because of the protest, which gridlocked downtown Ottawa in January and February 2022, according to The Democracy Fund (TDF), which is representing Lich.

Government lawyers claimed the protest cost the city $7 million in business and another $55 million in policing costs.

Despite this, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey asked, “I wonder what the costs of Canada Day are?”

Diane Magas, Barber’s lawyer, claimed that the government’s intent to lock him up for eight years is a “cruel” as well as “harsh” sentence that amounts to “unusual punishment.”

Perkins-McVey admitted that her ruling, “will not be an easy one.”

Magas noted that both Barber and Lich had continually sought legal advice as to what they were doing in the protests.

In court, Perkins-McVey did note that both Lich’s and Barber’s previous jail time served might be considered in possibly reducing any sentence given.

While the sentencing trial is scheduled to end July 25, Perkins-McVey noted additional days may be needed.

Lawyers for Lich and Barber have argued in court that any sentence given should be a conditional one, or a suspended sentence, and that jail time is not warranted.

A verdict is not expected until late August.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre came out in support of Lich and Barber, blasting a government plan to jail them for nearly a decade.

In April, Lich and Barber were found guilty of mischief for their roles as leaders of the 2022 protest and as social media influencers. The conviction came after a nearly two-year trial despite the non-violent nature of the popular movement.

The Lich and Barber trial concluded in September 2024, more than a year after it began. It was originally scheduled to last 16 days.

Lich and Barber were initially arrested on February 17, 2022, meaning their legal battle has lasted longer than three years.

Despite the peaceful nature of the Freedom Convoy, then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act to clear out protesters, an action a federal judge has since said was “not justified.” During the clear-out, an elderly lady was trampled by a police horse and many who donated to the cause had their bank accounts frozen.