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Part of the HESA Watch Series

Dr. Somers has been a HESA witness twice, two years apart, and the second time he came, the same old story was presented as fresh on social media.

Here are the allegations, as given June 3 2024 @ HESA

   Dr. Julian M. Somers : […] I’m here today to testify to B.C.’s dangerous and imbalanced approach to addiction policy that prioritizes drug liberalization and legalization and largely ignores addiction prevention and recovery. This approach has been driven by an influential group of current and former health officials whose financial interests overlap with their advocacy.

As has been reported by several journalists, B.C.’s drug policies have been shaped for many years by a network of public servants and university-based researchers who previously focused on pharmaceutical interventions for HIV/AIDS.

The key players include former provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall and the Michael Smith foundation’s scientific director, Dr. Martin Schechter, who co-created Fair Price Pharma to provide heroin. Former deputy PHO Dr. Mark Tyndall created the MySafe Society, which dispenses opioids from vending machines.

Dr. Evan Wood created a pharmaceutical company and directed the B.C. Centre on Substance Use, or BCCSU, which was formed from the HIV/AIDS centre for excellence. The current BCCSU director, Dr. Thomas Kerr, was recently involved in a scheme to disrupt and silence speakers at a conference I spoke at.

With prompting from Gord Johns, Ben Perrin had this to say about the allegations.

Prof. Benjamin Perrin: It’s a shocking, unethical and false allegation. When you cast aspersions in a setting like this, where you’re protected from criminal and civil liability, and you don’t give anyone you’re making allegations against an opportunity to respond, it’s a very dangerous combination.

I recently watched a podcast on McCarthyism, and it reminds me of that, if you’re going to start casting aspersions about people. There’s a process and a way for the committee to explore any of those concerns it wants. If it wants to go down that road, which I don’t think is necessary, it should be giving those people a chance to respond.

Working Draft, Julian’s 2nd Hesa trip coming up.

Links to highlights of June 3 2024 HESA:

Gord Johns asks Julian how these non-profits are ‘for profit’, gets no answer.

Elisabeth Briere asks a similar question later, Julian answers.

Ben Perrin calls out [but doesn’t name] Laila Goodridge for posting on X during the meeting, and again it’s Gord Johns as the setup man.

Note, when researching this topic we found google censoring it badly and started a dedicated page Google vs Brave

Julian Somers allegations of BCSSU influencing drug policy for profit- “It’s a shocking, unethical and false allegation”.

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Part of the HESA Watch Series

Dr. Somers has been a HESA witness twice, two years apart, and the second time he came, the same old story was presented as fresh on social media.

Here are the allegations, as given June 3 2024 @ HESA

   Dr. Julian M. Somers : […] I’m here today to testify to B.C.’s dangerous and imbalanced approach to addiction policy that prioritizes drug liberalization and legalization and largely ignores addiction prevention and recovery. This approach has been driven by an influential group of current and former health officials whose financial interests overlap with their advocacy.

As has been reported by several journalists, B.C.’s drug policies have been shaped for many years by a network of public servants and university-based researchers who previously focused on pharmaceutical interventions for HIV/AIDS.

The key players include former provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall and the Michael Smith foundation’s scientific director, Dr. Martin Schechter, who co-created Fair Price Pharma to provide heroin. Former deputy PHO Dr. Mark Tyndall created the MySafe Society, which dispenses opioids from vending machines.

Dr. Evan Wood created a pharmaceutical company and directed the B.C. Centre on Substance Use, or BCCSU, which was formed from the HIV/AIDS centre for excellence. The current BCCSU director, Dr. Thomas Kerr, was recently involved in a scheme to disrupt and silence speakers at a conference I spoke at.

With prompting from Gord Johns, Ben Perrin had this to say about the allegations.

Prof. Benjamin Perrin: It’s a shocking, unethical and false allegation. When you cast aspersions in a setting like this, where you’re protected from criminal and civil liability, and you don’t give anyone you’re making allegations against an opportunity to respond, it’s a very dangerous combination.

I recently watched a podcast on McCarthyism, and it reminds me of that, if you’re going to start casting aspersions about people. There’s a process and a way for the committee to explore any of those concerns it wants. If it wants to go down that road, which I don’t think is necessary, it should be giving those people a chance to respond.

Working Draft, Julian’s 2nd Hesa trip coming up.

Links to highlights of June 3 2024 HESA:

Gord Johns asks Julian how these non-profits are ‘for profit’, gets no answer.

Elisabeth Briere asks a similar question later, Julian answers.

Ben Perrin calls out [but doesn’t name] Laila Goodridge for posting on X during the meeting, and again it’s Gord Johns as the setup man.

Note, when researching this topic we found google censoring it badly and started a dedicated page Google vs Brave