By Charlaine

Town halls are the latest rage in British Columbia to inform people of new Bills the governments are advancing through with little public input.

In Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, invitations were sent to all city council members, Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District (ACRD) directors, MLAs, MPs, and First Nations groups to attend the first Port Alberni Town Hall. Alas, only one director showed up and only two councillors responded to the RSVP. This is a recurring theme among the politicians across BC with the Town Hall meetings—a minute number of politicians attend.

It makes one wonder, “Is there a lack of public interest with councils or are councils just following policies in their rulings?”

Founder Paul Jordan of BCTownhall2024.ca said, “I was so frustrated. My family turned on us and 99 percent of my friends turned on my wife and I.”

“I was so angry about all the sh*t that was going on in the world and with our country and knew not how to reach the people in the middle, vaccinated or not,” Jordan explained. “A pastor advised me to look within. The next morning, I woke up and said, ‘Let’s get off of social media and talk, just like the Old Town Halls they used to put on.’”

A pilot project town hall was initiated in Lake Cowichan, Vancouver Island, BC, with Honourable John Rustad. Also attending was Dr. Stephen Malthouse, who has been speaking out publicly since the start of the Covid crisis in 2020.

It was so successful, they held a larger one in Victoria, BC. They wrote the templates for town halls online (BCTownhall2024.ca), which guides people how to and what to say in holding their own town hall. The objective is to bring awareness to the people about the Bills that are being pushed through. BCRising.ca got on board, as did FreedomRising.ca. Town halls are now popping up all over the place in BC. I am not aware of any mainstream media broadcasting any of this information.

Port Alberni’s first town hall, May 8, 2024, saw a full house show up to learn from the speakers about some of the new Bills and United Nations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Joshua Lemmens, an Eagle Clan Elder, from Hope, BC, travelled to Port Alberni, to speak about UNDRIP—the Great Reset, which means the Great Resettlement.

“UNDRIP is a UN initiative to give back to the Indigenous People their lands, however, the UN is the banker,” Joshua said.

UNDRIP does not explain the word Indigenous. The Webster’s dictionary defines indigenous as “Originating in a (specified) place or country,” a term that could be misconstrued, indeed. In other words, if the lands go bankrupt, then the UN, who is the banker, can ravish the treasures, bring in their people, and take the resources.

Wayne Smith, a director of the Alberni Farmers Institute (AFI) and local Port Alberni farmer for many years spoke about food security. “A good farmer is a good observer,” Smith told the crowd, and what he is observing are too many rules and regulations being imposed on the farmers, making them want to sell out, as the average farmer now is in his 60s and they don’t want to fight all the government Bills.

“From 2016 to 2021, we lost 10 percent of the farmers in Canada,” according to BC Census. “And I believe it is even more since then,” Smith said.

“There is no 4-H club in Port Alberni this year, which means that generation is not being educated about farming and animals,” he said.

New mandatory rules are being implemented1 for water use by the BC Ministry of Forests, and with Bill 31 (Emergency and Disaster Management Act), if the government declares an emergency (which can be anything), they can come onto your farm and kick you out.

Enforcement Patrol is also on the government table where they can check on how you are treating your animals (taking that responsibility away from the SPCA). However, the large agricultural companies do not have to comply with this mandate—only the small farmers.

“We need to adopt a safe community lifestyle. Keep a year’s supply of non-perishable foods, support your local farmers, go to city hall, reactivate old unused gardens,” Smith advised.

Dr. Stephen Malthouse, an activist from the start of 2020, spoke about Bill 36, the Healthcare Professions and Occupations Act (HPCA), where all health practitioners will be affected. If you do not follow protocols and if you say anything other than the protocols, you can be fined up to $500,000 and/or go to jail. Doctors and nurses and many healthcare practitioners are leaving BC in droves.

“They (the government) can seize all medical records,” Malthouse told the attentive crowd. “And an anonymous complaint can lock your door.”

Doctors will be required to get all mandated injections.

In addition to the compromised healthcare system, is the state of affairs in the hospitals. Dr. Ingrid Pincott, a 25-year veteran doctor from the city of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, talked about how nurses are getting sick when entering some patients’ rooms and having to breathe crack, meth, or cocaine smoke. It is, however, illegal to smoke cigarettes in the hospital.

The hospital administrators gave nurses gas masks to use for their safety.

Elana Lacopoy, an RN of 40 years, worked on 17 reserves in northern Canada, and is presently on leave after an assault at the Dufferin Place Residential, a long-term care facility and sister lodging to BC’s Nanaimo hospital. She is scared to return to work with the present state of affairs with the “drugs, violence, sexual assault, alcohol and weapons being allowed in their rooms.”

“We are instructed to give the patients anything they want. They snort cocaine, smoke crack, and they have bubble pipes. The addicts get the use of four-bed rooms to themselves, even if they are away for a week at a time, while 78 people are awaiting a bed. A girl beat the dickens out of a geriatric patient who then died a week later,” a crying Lacopoy told the crowd. “I have never been scared working the reserves, but I am now, working in this institute.”

Only a few people raised their hands in the Port Alberni Town Hall when asked who does not have a doctor. Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, more than one million Canadians do not have a doctor to call upon when needed.

As Dr. Ingrid Pincott of Campbell River said, “It is not a good time to be sick.”

1. Stolen Water, a 3-part documentary film by Simon Hergott tinyurl.com/3v4nf8ry