“This Was Effectively a Gag Order”

Editor’s Note: The following remarks by Dr. Charles Hoffe at an Allison Inquiry press conference on August 13, 2026, have been lightly edited for clarity, grammar and length.

My name is Dr. Charles Hoffe. I’m a family doctor in southern British Columbia, where I’ve worked since 1993, serving mostly Nlaka’pamux First Nations people.

When the COVID-19 vaccine rollout began, I tried to alert my colleagues in the area to serious safety signals. I was reprimanded by the authorities and told that I was not allowed to say anything negative about the vaccines.

I started seeing very serious side effects in my own patients. Within three months of the rollout, one patient died suddenly after his shot. Three people were clearly going to be permanently disabled, and a number of others were seriously injured.

I sent an open letter to British Columbia Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry to inform her of these safety signals. She referred the matter to her top vaccine safety specialist, Dr. Monika Naus, who assured me—without investigating any of my patients—that these were all coincidences.

I told her, “I’ve been a family doctor to these people for 28 years. I know them very well, and there is no other medical explanation for these terrible, disabling symptoms.”

She insisted that they were all coincidences and told me to submit vaccine-injury reports. I ultimately submitted 14 reports. When every single one was dismissed as a coincidence by public health, I gave up.

To this day, I have 36 vaccine-injured patients—and I am referring only to the COVID vaccines. I have a small, one-doctor practice of approximately 1,100 people.

The authorities’ second response to my efforts to alert them about what was happening to my patients was a warning letter. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia sent a letter to every registered doctor, warning that those who spread “misinformation” about COVID-19 or the vaccines would be investigated and, if necessary, disciplined.

In other words, this was effectively a gag order directed at the entire medical community: “These shots are safe and effective. Don’t say anything to the contrary. You will be putting people at risk.”

Ultimately, I was charged with spreading “misinformation.” To cut a long story short, the College dropped the charges shortly before my trial. I had a brilliant lawyer and eight world-class expert witnesses prepared to defend me.

The only explanation the College gave for dropping the charges was that the process had already fulfilled its purpose by acting as a deterrent to other doctors who might wish to spread “misinformation.”

This warning to doctors effectively created an illusion of consensus. Doctors were too afraid to speak up, so very few were publicly raising the alarm about what was happening—even though it was clearly devastating.

In my letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry, I pointed out that, 15 months into the pandemic, not one person in our town had required healthcare for COVID-19.

As soon as the vaccine rollout began, the real casualties emerged. It was clear to me that the COVID injections were more dangerous than COVID itself.

Of course, the authorities’ response was: “Yes, it’s unfortunate if a few people get hurt, but the vaccines are saving millions of lives. They are keeping people safe.”

One needs to remember that, during the first year of the pandemic, there was absolutely no increase in the number of people dying in Canada. If we look at all-cause mortality during that first year, it was no different from what we would expect. The increase in all-cause mortality began after the vaccine rollout.

In the United States, there have now been approximately one million excess deaths—non-COVID excess deaths—since the vaccine rollout. The idea that the vaccines have saved millions of lives is absurd. The number of people dying is higher than ever.

As I mentioned, vaccine-injury reporting in Canada appeared to be censored. Of the 14 reports I submitted, every single one was rejected by public health. Since Canada had what appeared to be a censored vaccine-injury reporting system, we have to look to other countries.

OpenVAERS, which presents data from the United States’ Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, records approximately 39,000 reports of deaths following COVID-19 vaccination and more than 72,000 reports involving permanent disability.

Yet they continue telling us that these products are “safe and effective.” There seems to be no ceiling on how many casualties there must be before they shut this down.

I am participating in the Allison Inquiry to advocate for the safety of my patients and of all Canadians.

Thank you.

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