The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) plans to end to COVID-19 vaccine directives..Members discharged from the service for refusing the jab will have a chance to re-enrol, civilians placed on unpaid leave can return to work, and recruits needn’t be vaccinated..The revised draft policy is expected to be implemented soon..So then, at ease. It’s all good..Not so fast..Someone must be held accountable for the collateral damage — suffering and humiliation inflicted on some military personnel who dared to defend their bodily autonomy..Military tribunals are struck over injustices like some endured..St. Albert lawyer Catherine Christensen calls the re-enrolment directive “smoke and mirrors.”.“It’s not been made official. It was put out there to make people think they’re withdrawing the mandates and give people hope,” said Christensen..The military law expert with Valour Law is representing 300 CAF members in a class action lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions in damages for lost income, pensions, and promotions..It’s about more than mandates..“It’s a lawsuit to hold Canadian Armed Forces accountable for their abusive actions towards their members,” said Christensen..“The mandate itself is just a perfect example of what happened once those directives were brought down and how people were treated by the chain of command.”.“There are steps that some COs (commanding officers) have taken that, if they did that to a prisoner of war, they’d be in the Hague being charged with war crimes — against their own people.”.The ‘leadership’ some demonstrated against non-compliant members can be summed up in one word..Sadistic..Christensen is representing a young private who refused the vaccine. His CO’s cruelty is shocking. .“He was forced to stand outside of a building in Quebec in January at attention so everybody he worked with could walk past.”.“He lasted a month before he lost 15 pounds of muscle mass and could no longer physically stand out there anymore. A lot of credit to this poor kid.”.“The mental torture they put him through, as well as the physical torture, should never happen in our Canadian Forces. Remember how cold our January was this year?”.“If that was a prisoner of war, you’d be charged and go to jail for that.”.The private quit rather than get vaccinated and is “struggling.”.Instead of supporting strong members who’d fight to the death for us, the CAF crushes them while fixated on gender pronouns and woke uniforms. .Unvaccinated Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR) members in Petawawa were punished by being ostracized and left freezing..They were put in a separate tent and told their heat would be taken away until they got vaccinated..“A young woman in the Navy on the Pacific Fleet had just come back from stress leave. They cleared the boardroom, sent everyone else home.”.“They marched her into the room with four male senior officers and forced her to sign a piece of paper that said she wouldn’t follow a lawful order to take the vaccine. After hours of this she signed it.”.Leaders? Nah, bullies. Is this the CAF claiming to be committed to tackling discrimination and misconduct?.“We’ve had some attempted suicides,” said Christensen, attributing those incidents to people losing hope because of what they were put through with vaccine directives..Under the revamped directive, those who received a 5(f) release and want to re-enrol will need a waiver from the Chief of the Defence Staff Wayne Eyre..This is the guy who abandoned his troops and tripped over his boot laces obliging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s vaccine tyranny..Christensen doubts that Eyre, who “got rid of so many people,” will sign waivers..“He’s been on the news calling them all kinds of nasty names. Do you think he’s really going to let any of them come back in?”.A 5(f) release means a member was deemed not suitable for service due to moral weakness..“Now they try to call it an honourable discharge. It was a dishonourable release until a couple of years ago. They give rapists 5(f) releases.”.The CAF said 1,300 members requested exemptions for religious or medical reasons since October 2021. Of those 1,000 were denied. Some were discharged, others are entwined in a complicated grievance exercise..“There’s a lot more than the CAF wants to admit.”.“I just saw the stats. In the past 12 months there’ve been 10,000 releases. They’re purging. It’s a method of force reduction.”.Christensen’s lawsuit involves members from all military branches “coast-to coast, all trades.”.“I’m being inundated with more people. Our team’s estimate is there are around 3,000.”.Many are pilots..“The pilots aren’t taking the vaccine because they’re dropping dead in the sky in the US military.”.Christensen is also representing members who opted to take the experimental vaccine..“There are some people in my group who have reluctantly taken the vaccine to save their families’ livelihoods. They did it under coercion.”.Now the CAF will welcome unvaccinated recruits..What a betrayal to members forced to take the jab or early retirement, many forsaking pensions they were close to..“There are people in my lawsuit that are fantastic people. They have no blemishes on their records. They said ‘I have bodily autonomy and I choose not to have this treatment.’”.“These people standing up for their moral principles are being told they have a moral weakness. Those are usually your best soldiers to have the moral compass they stick to.”.The pending directive falls in line with the federal government ending vaccine requirements for civil servants last month..The CAF failed in its assigned mission to lead the way..The initial CDS Directive 002 on CAF COVID-19 Vaccination states it was to “ensure that the CAF continues to demonstrate leadership to other GC departments and to all Canadians…”.“They were advised — I’ve seen the documents — they couldn’t do this legally, that it would break the back of what little morale they had left in the CAF. Eyre went ahead and did it anyway.”.“They (military members) were turned into an experiment. The driving force behind this directive was that they wanted a 100% vaccination rate to set an example for the Canadian public. Safety wasn’t the first thing.”.Christensen said military members don’t give up their Constitutional rights when they enlist..“They signed up to put their lives on the line for our country and our Constitution. When push came to shove, they never gave up on that, but their chain of command did.”.Valour Legal Action Centre is crowd-funded non-profit..“No man’s left behind. We don’t want money to be reason for them not to pursue what they deserve.”
