‘The lockdowns cause more harm than the virus and must be brought to an end.’

“After careful examination and scrutiny of mitigation measures undertaken by all levels of government, it is now evident that the lockdowns cause more harm than the virus and must be brought to an end,” they added. ​

“We devote our energy and efforts to the just and compassionate objective of reopening our businesses, schools, places of worship, recreational facilities, along with the full resumption and expansion of efficient medical services. We desire to restore dignity and respect for all Canadians by safeguarding our representative democracy and its institutions, defending our Constitution, personal freedoms and responsibilities, whilst implementing focused protection for the most vulnerable,” their statement concluded.

The group states that the caucus is open to all members, at any level of representative government, be it municipal, provincial, or federal.

So far, six others, all from Ontario and Alberta, have joined the caucus.

Bernier said in a video to Canadians that the time has come to “fight these lockdowns.”

“We want to be sure that Canadians have back their freedom. And, we want to have a real debate in this country about the consequences of these lockdowns and curfews that happen in this country,” he said.

“So, we need to have this debate. The more people that will be part of this caucus, the better. And, in the end, we will be the real opposition in Canada against the lockdowns,” he added.

Canada has a population of about 37 million. So far, there have been about 20,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19, meaning that a mere .05 percent (five one-hundredths of one percent) of the population has succumbed to the virus. Of the estimated 797,000 cases, there have been 729,000 recoveries, meaning that over 90 percent of those infected have recovered, until now. In Ontario, the  of COVID-19 deaths have been among elderly residents of long-term care homes.

The consequences of lockdowns are beginning to alarm doctors and researchers.

The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)  that it’s seeing a “disturbing trend” of babies coming to the hospital with “fractures and head trauma” in the wake of COVID-related lockdowns across Ontario and Quebec.

Academics from Harvard, Duke, and Johns Hopkins universities  in which they claimed that COVID lockdowns will result in a “staggering” one million excess deaths over the next decade-and-a-half due to a spike of health-related issues caused by unemployment.

“For the overall population, the increase in the death rate following the COVID-19 pandemic implies a staggering 0.89 and 1.37 million excess deaths over the next 15 and 20 years, respectively,” stated the authors of the December 2020 working paper titled .

COVID-19 restrictions have also negatively impacted the number of those who die from drug overdoses. Toronto Public Health  in January a “record number” of overdose deaths that happened in the last two months.

Ontario’s former top doctor Richard Schabas  that lockdowns are “misguided efforts to control Covid” and are “only compounding the tragedy.”

Schabas pointed out that there are “significant costs to lockdowns” that are often overlooked, such as “lost education, unemployment, social isolation, deteriorating mental health and compromised access to health care.”

“Lockdown is an affront to social justice because its burdens fall disproportionately on the young, the working poor and visible minorities. We will be paying for lockdown — in lives and dollars for decades to come,” the doctor wrote.

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