We just landed in Geneva, Switzerland, and are reporting to you from outside the United Nations’ office here. We’ve come here because this is where an international body is attempting to rewrite Canadian law — let me explain.
The World Health Organization is a part of the United Nations. It’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, effectively ordered the world to lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Theresa Tam, Canada’s public health officer, was part of the WHO’s committees that helped throw the world into that lockdown chaos.
Well, Theresa Tam is back. She’s here with people from around the world — none of them elected — to pass a pandemic treaty. It’s like the COVID-19 pandemic was a test drive; some things they got wrong, some things they got right. They want to codify this in a treaty so that when the next one comes — and they say there will be a next one — they can snap in a global response.
And that response is drafted here at the United Nations, not back home in Ottawa or London or Canberra or Washington.
Hellbound and Down 