lifesitenews--2020-04-17--Heroic Canadian pro-life priest Fr Alphonse de Valk dies at 88

TORONTO , April 17 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — One of Canada ’ s greatest life heroes , Basilian Fr .
Alphonse de Valk , died April 16 at age 88 .
His passing on Thursday afternoon in the palliative care wing of Scarborough General Hospital followed a short bout of pneumonia and was not due to the novel coronavirus .
Fr .
de Valk was beloved by many , as attested in accolades from many who laboured along with him to restore legal protection to the child in the womb .
“ It ’ s a shocking loss @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said Jim Hughes , past president of Campaign Life Coalition , Canada ’ s national pro-life , pro-family political lobbying group .
“ His commitment to the unborn and the elderly was only surpassed by his faith in Almighty God .
He was just outstanding.
” “ The Catholic Church in Canada has lost a truly remarkable man , ” said Bill Mullally , longtime Campaign Life volunteer and one of Fr .
de Valk ’ s boon companions .
“ Father ’ s witness to the Gospel , his love of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have inspired and influenced many people over the years .
Much more will be said for Father ’ s respect for the truth in all things , ” Mullally added .
“ And my family have lost a very dear friend , but in great faith we take solace in knowing he will keep an eye on all of us as we continue our own journey.
” This “ irascible , stubborn and yet also kind and generous Dutchman ( I am half Dutch ) ” will be “ judged by history to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ persons in the history of Canada ’ s pro-life movement to which he was totally dedicated , ” said Steve Jalsevac , co-founder of LifeSiteNews .
“ He was a father figure for the cause ; firm , uncompromising , and consistent .
But inside , he was a real softy with joy and love for everyone , especially the pro-life youth , ” said Tanya Granic Allen , pro-life and parental rights activist and mother of five children .
“ I was a teenager working in the pro-life movement when I first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” she said .
“ I admired him greatly .
I ’ m not even sure I ever told him that .
But his staunch position for truth and justice is what appealed to me.
” But while Fr .
de Valk was known as a pro-life warrior , “ deep down he was a priest , ” and later in his life “ what was there all along shone out more clearly , ” said Catholic Insight editor John Paul Meenan .
“ What a priest does is offer sacrifice , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry ’ s Bay .
“ We saw that through the years in his apostolic work , but that spirit of sacrificial love he had for the unborn , elderly , children , Catholics , what motivated that was a deeper thing , offering the sacrifice on the altar , and ultimately the sacrifice of his own life , ” he said .
“ It ’ s very inspiring to meet a priest who kept his vows and his promise in a way that was so complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never got a hint from Fr .
de Valk that there was anything angst-ridden in him .
There was always this peace , that I think flowed from a spirit of sacrifice : that he offered his life to God and never looked back.
” From poultry farm to the priesthood Alphonse Anthony Maria de Valk was born on Easter Sunday , March 27 , 1932 , in Rotterdam , the fourth of five boys .
During the war years , their then-widowed father sent his sons off to boarding school for safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Petrasek in The Interim .
He immigrated to Canada in 1951 , landing his first job on a chicken farm in Grimsby , Ontario .
Two years later , he and his brother , Neil , moved to Toronto , and over the course of the next years he saved enough as a junior auditor to attend St. Michael ’ s University and earn his B.A .
However , he cut short his studies for his Masters when he ran out of savings and took a job at an insurance company .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ becoming a priest popped into my head.
” He entered St.
Basil ’ s Novitiate in Mississauga in 1961 , after a first day of hesitation and wondering if he ’ d made the right decision , his doubts were dispelled , never to return .
The seminary followed in 1962 , and he was ordained a priest of the Congregation of St .
Basil on December 11 in 1965 , at age 33 , three days after the close of the Second Vatican Council .
“ It allows you to do so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ live on the highest possible level of ideals .
It certainly means serving the Lord in the world and for me the intellectual apostolate of teaching , growing in study and doing the will of God .
To be a priest is to preside at the liturgy , to teach the faith and to do everything that Christ did as a priest.
” Fr .
de Valk held many high level positions in the Basilian order , which is dedicated to education , including a stint as principal of St. Joseph ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Edmonton and at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon .
But it appears his first love was journalism .
While at Saskatoon , he founded the Chelsea Journal , a periodical on current affairs and culture named after St. Thomas More ’ s home .
And it was in Saskatoon that Fr .
de Valk first put his pen — literally , as he wrote everything out in longhand throughout his career — to work in defense of the unborn child , and his articles led to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ university .
It was the beginning of a singular avocation he carried on in Edmonton , founding the Life Ethics Information Centre with a group of supporters .
The publishing company produced 36 pamphlets on various pro-life issues over a span of 15 years — including “ The Worst Law Ever , ” which recounts the 1969 amendment to the Criminal Code legalizing abortion .
And when his order gave him permission to pursue his doctorate in 1972 , Fr .
de Valk abandoned the field of European history and instead wrote Morality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seminal work documenting the legalization of abortion in Canada .
He wanted “ to show what a watershed it was , how ominous , how foreboding of the future unless the decision was overturned , ” he told Petrasek .
“ As a historian , my entrance into the pro-life movement came from a realization that an error in principle in a grave matter of life and death either has to be reversed or it will destroy society , ” he explained then .
“ Anti-Semitism in Germany between 1918 and 1939 should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use of it and it destroyed Germany .
Likewise , legalized abortion will destroy Western societies unless we redress it.
” And in this , Fr .
de Valk has sadly been vindicated , noted Jalsevac .
“ He was incredibly prophetic and far ahead of almost everyone in understanding the long-term dangers from even the slightest acceptance of abortion , homosexuality and other violations of traditional moral principles , ” he said .
Also in Edmonton , Fr .
de Valk joined the nascent Campaign Life , and when he moved to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him permission to work full time in the organization ’ s national office , then on the third floor of the red-brick ramshackle Mission Press building , just a stone ’ s throw from St. Michael ’ s Cathedral .
He began as writer for fledgling pro-life monthly newspaper The Interim , and took over from Sabina McLuhan as editor in 1987 , a position he held until 1992 .
During that time , Fr .
de Valk “ published so many articles on homosexuality that we had to repeatedly urge him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the numerous complaints being received , ” Jalsevac recalled .
“ Even most pro-life leaders strongly objected that the issue had nothing to do with pro-life .
I doubt anyone in the world was then writing and exposing as much as he was on the topic .
As it turned out , Fr .
de Valk was right and it was only years later that many caught up to accepting what he desperately warned about.
” He was also involved in starting the Family Coalition Party in 1987 , and drafted all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social principles .
Even when he left The Interim to start Catholic Insight in 1993 , Fr .
de Valk ran the magazine from the Campaign Life office , and remained very much involved with the organization , including his daily call over the intercom : “ It ’ s 10 minutes to 12 .
Time to pray.
” “ He was our in-house theologian , ” said Jeff Gunnarson , current Campaign Life president and the “ go-to ” person to consult on the moral soundness of legislation , opinions and strategies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could trust him .
He was hard-nosed , he wasn ’ t easily moved off his position , but he was not intimidating .
He was very welcoming and he always had time to talk to you .
It was just very comforting to have him in the office , ” Gunnarson said .
“ For Campaign Life , he was the perfect chaplain we could have had , because he was not just a superior spiritual director , he had a profound knowledge of Canadian politics vis-a-vis the faith and moral issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he added .
“ And he led us in prayer every day at the office .
He was prayerful .
I know that he did the Rosary on the subway on his way in every day , so he was a public witness .
He always wore his collar.
” Fr .
de Valk also became involved in pro-life street activism in Toronto , spending a night in the notorious Don Jail after he was arrested in October 1985 along Father Ted Colleton and Baptist minister Fred Vaughan , who chained themselves to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The three men were later acquitted of a trespassing charge .
He picketed in front of the Morgentaler abortion center , then on Harbord Street , every Friday for nearly five years , praying the Rosary and carrying a sign that read : “ Stop Abortion.
” When a 1989 injunction banned protests outside the abortion facility , Father continued picketing for nine weeks .
He was arrested nine times and charged with trespassing , and ultimately found guilty and fined $ 750 or two weeks in jail .
He never paid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to jail .
Fr .
de Valk was named among the 18 defendants in the 1994 lawsuit brought by Bob Rae ’ s NDP government that allowed the attorney general to impose a temporary injunction banning protests within 500 feet of Toronto ’ s abortion facilities .
In 1993 , he started his final journalistic venture , the current affairs periodical Catholic Insight with the support of Campaign Life .
“ He thought we had to tackle religious issues stronger than we were , ” said Hughes .
“ We began doing an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ delved very strongly into religious matters.
” Hughes recalled a meeting with retired English professor David Dooley , Fr .
Joseph Thompson and Father de Valk where they discussed founding Catholic Insight , which was launched using The Interim subscriber list .
Published 10 times a year , Catholic Insight focused the Catholic Church in English-speaking Canada , and covered such topics as the consequences of the Canadian bishops ’ disastrous 1969 Winnipeg Statement , the Ontario bishops ’ controversial sex-ed curriculum Fully Alive , dissent in Catholic schools , and the encroachment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society .
As a result of the latter , in 2008 LGBTQ activists filed a hate speech complaint against Catholic Insight under the infamous Section 13 the Canadian Human Rights Code .
Toronto lawyer Phil Horgan , now president of the Catholic Civil Rights League , defended Fr .
de Valk and succeeded in having the case thrown out .
The Basilian priest “ was a passionate defender of life and free speech and stood for a robust understanding of freedom of conscience and religion , ” Horgan said .
“ We took @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that position , as well as the work of others of some notoriety in the country , led to the repeal of Section 13 ” enacted in 2013 , he added .
That year , CCRL honoured Fr .
de Valk , who co-founded the League in Canada in 1985 , with its Archbishop Adam Exner award .
“ How blessed we all were to know Fr .
de Valk and spend time with him , ” Horgan said , adding that Fr .
de Valk “ had a wry sense of humour @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guy , but he had a little bit of a twinkle in his approach to things.
” He retired as editor and publisher of Catholic Insight in 2012 , and the magazine continued in printed form under editor David Beresford until 2015 .
It is now an online publication edited by Meenan .
Fr .
de Valk financially supported the founding in 2015 of Faithful Insight , a magazine run by LifeSiteNews , which ceased publication in late 2019 .
In his retirement years , Fr .
de Valk lived at the Basilian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Flahiff Centre on St. Joseph ’ s Street , and last year moved to the Presentation Centre in Scarborough .
He was very involved in the Marian Movement of Priests , along with his confrere , the late Fr .
Lawrence Faye , and had a great devotion to Our Lady .
“ To me , the priesthood is the greatest vocation a person can have , ” he told Petrasek.
“ Why I was chosen I don ’ t know .
It is because of the chosen freedom of God , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In light of the current pandemic , Fr .
de Valk ’ s funeral will be held at a later date .

'His commitment to the unborn and the elderly was only surpassed by his faith in Almighty God,' said past Campaign Life Coalition president Jim Hughes.
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TORONTO, April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — One of Canada’s greatest life heroes, Basilian Fr. Alphonse de Valk, died April 16 at age 88.
His passing on Thursday afternoon in the palliative care wing of Scarborough General Hospital followed a short bout of pneumonia and was not due to the novel coronavirus.
Fr. de Valk was beloved by many, as attested in accolades from many who laboured along with him to restore legal protection to the child in the womb.
“It’s a shocking loss to the Canadian pro-life movement,” said Jim Hughes, past president of Campaign Life Coalition, Canada’s national pro-life, pro-family political lobbying group.
“His commitment to the unborn and the elderly was only surpassed by his faith in Almighty God. He was just outstanding.”
“The Catholic Church in Canada has lost a truly remarkable man,” said Bill Mullally, longtime Campaign Life volunteer and one of Fr. de Valk’s good friends.
“Father’s witness to the Gospel, his love of the priesthood, life, and the family have inspired and influenced many people over the years. Much more will be said for Father’s respect for the truth in all things,” Mullally added.
“And my family have lost a very dear friend, but in great faith we take solace in knowing he will keep an eye on all of us as we continue our own journey.”
This “irascible, stubborn and yet also kind and generous Dutchman (I am half Dutch)” will be “judged by history to have been one of the most significant persons in the history of Canada’s pro-life movement to which he was totally dedicated,” said Steve Jalsevac, co-founder of LifeSiteNews.
“He was a father figure for the cause; firm, uncompromising, and consistent. But inside, he was a real softy with joy and love for everyone, especially the pro-life youth,” said Tanya Granic Allen, pro-life and parental rights activist and mother of five children.
“I was a teenager working in the pro-life movement when I first first encountered Fr. de Valk,” she said. “I admired him greatly. I’m not even sure I ever told him that. But his staunch position for truth and justice is what appealed to me.”
But while Fr. de Valk was known as a pro-life warrior, “deep down he was a priest,” and later in his life “what was there all along shone out more clearly,” said Catholic Insight editor John Paul Meenan.
“What a priest does is offer sacrifice,” Meenan said, who teaches at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry’s Bay.
“We saw that through the years in his apostolic work, but that spirit of sacrificial love he had for the unborn, elderly, children, Catholics, what motivated that was a deeper thing, offering the sacrifice on the altar, and ultimately the sacrifice of his own life,” he said.
“It’s very inspiring to meet a priest who kept his vows and his promise in a way that was so complete,” added Meenan.
“You never got a hint from Fr. de Valk that there was anything angst-ridden in him. There was always this peace, that I think flowed from a spirit of sacrifice: that he offered his life to God and never looked back.”
From poultry farm to the priesthood
Alphonse Anthony Maria de Valk was born on Easter Sunday, March 27, 1932, in Rotterdam, the fourth of five boys. During the war years, their then-widowed father sent his sons off to boarding school for safety, according to an article by Grace Petrasek in The Interim.
He immigrated to Canada in 1951, landing his first job on a chicken farm in Grimsby, Ontario. Two years later, he and his brother, Neil, moved to Toronto, and over the course of the next years he saved enough as a junior auditor to attend St. Michael’s University and earn his B.A.
However, he cut short his studies for his Masters when he ran out of savings and took a job at an insurance company. It was there that “the idea of becoming a priest popped into my head.”
He entered St. Basil’s Novitiate in Mississauga in 1961, after a first day of hesitation and wondering if he’d made the right decision, his doubts were dispelled, never to return.
The seminary followed in 1962, and he was ordained a priest of the Congregation of St. Basil on December 11 in 1965, at age 33, three days after the close of the Second Vatican Council.
“Being a priest is a tremendous vocation,” he told Petrasek.
“It allows you to do so many things for people but always to live on the highest possible level of ideals. It certainly means serving the Lord in the world and for me the intellectual apostolate of teaching, growing in study and doing the will of God. To be a priest is to preside at the liturgy, to teach the faith and to do everything that Christ did as a priest.”
Academe abandoned for pro-life work
Fr. de Valk held many high level positions in the Basilian order, which is dedicated to education, including a stint as principal of St. Joseph’s College at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
But it appears his first love was journalism. While at Saskatoon, he founded the Chelsea Journal, a periodical on current affairs and culture named after St. Thomas More’s home.
And it was in Saskatoon that Fr. de Valk first put his pen — literally, as he wrote everything out in longhand throughout his career — to work in defense of the unborn child, and his articles led to the defeat of a pro-abortion referendum at the university.
It was the beginning of a singular avocation he carried on in Edmonton, founding the Life Ethics Information Centre with a group of supporters. The publishing company produced 36 pamphlets on various pro-life issues over a span of 15 years — including “The Worst Law Ever,” which recounts the 1969 amendment to the Criminal Code legalizing abortion.
And when his order gave him permission to pursue his doctorate in 1972, Fr. de Valk abandoned the field of European history and instead wrote Morality and Law in Canadian Politics, the seminal work documenting the legalization of abortion in Canada.
He wanted “to show what a watershed it was, how ominous, how foreboding of the future unless the decision was overturned,” he told Petrasek.
“As a historian, my entrance into the pro-life movement came from a realization that an error in principle in a grave matter of life and death either has to be reversed or it will destroy society,” he explained then.
“Anti-Semitism in Germany between 1918 and 1939 should have been redressed because the Nazis made use of it and it destroyed Germany. Likewise, legalized abortion will destroy Western societies unless we redress it.”
And in this, Fr. de Valk has sadly been vindicated, noted Jalsevac.
“He was incredibly prophetic and far ahead of almost everyone in understanding the long-term dangers from even the slightest acceptance of abortion, homosexuality and other violations of traditional moral principles,” he said.
Full-time pro-life advocacy at Campaign Life
Also in Edmonton, Fr. de Valk joined the nascent Campaign Life, and when he moved to Toronto in 1983, his superiors gave him permission to work full time in the organization’s national office, then on the third floor of the red-brick ramshackle Mission Press building, just a stone’s throw from St. Michael’s Cathedral.
He began as writer for fledgling pro-life monthly newspaper The Interim, and took over from Sabina McLuhan as editor in 1987, a position he held until 1992.
During that time, Fr. de Valk “published so many articles on homosexuality that we had to repeatedly urge him to cut way back on it because of the numerous complaints being received,” Jalsevac recalled.
“Even most pro-life leaders strongly objected that the issue had nothing to do with pro-life. I doubt anyone in the world was then writing and exposing as much as he was on the topic. As it turned out, Fr. de Valk was right and it was only years later that many caught up to accepting what he desperately warned about.”
He was also involved in starting the Family Coalition Party in 1987, and drafted all the legislation the party supported based on Catholic social principles.
Even when he left The Interim to start Catholic Insight in 1993, Fr. de Valk ran the magazine from the Campaign Life office, and remained very much involved with the organization, including his daily call over the intercom: “It’s 10 minutes to 12. Time to pray.”
“He was our in-house theologian,” said Jeff Gunnarson, current Campaign Life president and the “go-to” person to consult on the moral soundness of legislation, opinions and strategies.
“He was solid. You could trust him. He was hard-nosed, he wasn’t easily moved off his position, but he was not intimidating. He was very welcoming and he always had time to talk to you. It was just very comforting to have him in the office,” Gunnarson said.
“For Campaign Life, he was the perfect chaplain we could have had, because he was not just a superior spiritual director, he had a profound knowledge of Canadian politics vis-a-vis the faith and moral issues, and all of politics,” he added.
“And he led us in prayer every day at the office. He was prayerful. I know that he did the Rosary on the subway on his way in every day, so he was a public witness. He always wore his collar.”
A night in the Don jail
Fr. de Valk also became involved in pro-life street activism in Toronto, spending a night in the notorious Don Jail after he was arrested in October 1985 along Father Ted Colleton and Baptist minister Fred Vaughan, who chained themselves to the gate of the Morgentaler abortion center.
The three men were later acquitted of a trespassing charge.
He picketed in front of the Morgentaler abortion center, then on Harbord Street, every Friday for nearly five years, praying the Rosary and carrying a sign that read: “Stop Abortion.”
When a 1989 injunction banned protests outside the abortion facility, Father continued picketing for nine weeks. He was arrested nine times and charged with trespassing, and ultimately found guilty and fined $750 or two weeks in jail. He never paid the fine, nor did he go to jail.
Fr. de Valk was named among the 18 defendants in the 1994 lawsuit brought by Bob Rae’s NDP government that allowed the attorney general to impose a temporary injunction banning protests within 500 feet of Toronto’s abortion facilities.
In 1993, he started his final journalistic venture, the current affairs periodical Catholic Insight with the support of Campaign Life.
“He thought we had to tackle religious issues stronger than we were,” said Hughes. “We began doing an insert in The Interim in which he delved very strongly into religious matters.”
Hughes recalled a meeting with retired English professor David Dooley, Fr. Joseph Thompson and Father de Valk where they discussed founding Catholic Insight, which was launched using The Interim subscriber list.
Published 10 times a year, Catholic Insight focused the Catholic Church in English-speaking Canada, and covered such topics as the consequences of the Canadian bishops’ disastrous 1969 Winnipeg Statement, the Ontario bishops’ controversial sex-ed curriculum Fully Alive, dissent in Catholic schools, and the encroachment of homosexual activism on the Church and society.
As a result of the latter, in 2008 LGBTQ activists filed a hate speech complaint against Catholic Insight under the infamous Section 13 the Canadian Human Rights Code.
Toronto lawyer Phil Horgan, now president of the Catholic Civil Rights League, defended Fr. de Valk and succeeded in having the case thrown out.
The Basilian priest “was a passionate defender of life and free speech and stood for a robust understanding of freedom of conscience and religion,” Horgan said.
“We took a very vigorous position, and ultimately that position, as well as the work of others of some notoriety in the country, led to the repeal of Section 13” enacted in 2013, he added.
That year, CCRL honoured Fr. de Valk, who co-founded the League in Canada in 1985, with its Archbishop Adam Exner award.
“How blessed we all were to know Fr. de Valk and spend time with him,” Horgan said, adding that Fr. de Valk “had a wry sense of humour. He was always a very serious guy, but he had a little bit of a twinkle in his approach to things.”
He retired as editor and publisher of Catholic Insight in 2012, and the magazine continued in printed form under editor David Beresford until 2015. It is now an online publication edited by Meenan. Fr. de Valk financially supported the founding in 2015 of Faithful Insight, a magazine run by LifeSiteNews, which ceased publication in late 2019.
In his retirement years, Fr. de Valk lived at the Basilian farm in Bolton, at the Cardinal Flahiff Centre on St. Joseph’s Street, and last year moved to the Presentation Centre in Scarborough.
He was very involved in the Marian Movement of Priests, along with his confrere, the late Fr. Lawrence Faye, and had a great devotion to Our Lady.
“To me, the priesthood is the greatest vocation a person can have,” he told Petrasek.“Why I was chosen I don’t know. It is because of the chosen freedom of God, like the mystery of the 12 apostles.”
In light of the current pandemic, Fr. de Valk’s funeral will be held at a later date.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-17--Canada’s top doctor leading pandemic response also works for China-controlled World Health Organizat

Canada’s top doctor leading pandemic response also works for China-controlled World Health Organization

April 17 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Canada ’ s chief public health officer , who has been called out for a lack of a proper response to the coronavirus epidemic , has direct ties to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) .
Dr. Theresa Tam , who has served as Canada ’ s top health official since 2017 , is one of seven people who sit on the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme ( IOAC ) .
This committee is mandated to evaluate “ the performance of the key functions in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ credibility has been questioned in light of the coronavirus epidemic , and there is mounting evidence that it lacks integrity and is heavily influenced by the Chinese regime .
On February 3 , asked if she thought Canada should stop the flow of travelers from China , Tam dismissed the idea as not necessary , saying a travel ban could “ do more harm than good.
” Tam added that closing borders could “ negatively affect a certain country that ’ s trying very hard to do its best , can impede whether @ @ @ @ @ @ @ share anything transparently with others ...
I think the idea is to support China.
” It was not until mid-March that Canada officially closed its borders to non-citizens and permanent residents .
Rebel News recently called for her to be fired for her ties to the WHO and a lack of a proper response to the coronavirus epidemic .
In a petition launched Thursday titled FireTam.com , Rebel News demands that Tam be replaced .
“ She has to work for Canadians — not foreign dictatorships , ” says the Rebel News petition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 19,000 signatures .
“ Her loyalty to the WHO is why she has given such bizarre advice to Canadians — like telling us not to wear masks .
That never made any sense — until you realize she was taking orders from China ’ s WHO.
” The government of pro-abortion Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has persisted in backing the WHO .
Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Wednesday that she still has confidence in the WHO .
`` Canada values the work of the World Health Organization and we continue to commit to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is a very valuable tool , '' she said at a press conference Tam ’ s lack of action over combating the coronavirus pandemic in Canada has also been called out by opposition politicians .
At a Tuesday press conference , Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer directly questioned the WHO ’ s credibility and its apparent ties with China .
“ We have very serious concerns .
Many concerns have been raised about the accuracy of the World Health Organization ’ s data , the influence that China has on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
On Wednesday , Scheer again stated his concern about the WHO and its relationship with China .
“ We 've seen examples of how the communist , autocratic , human rights-abusing government of China has had an inordinate effect on the WHO .
There 's evidence of suppressing information , not being open and transparent about the number of cases .
Those are very concerning , '' Scheer said .
Asked earlier in the week if he shares concerns raised by Scheer about the WHO ’ s credibility , Trudeau said “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to have going forward , ” to “ keep Canadians safe.
” '' How do we lean on experts in international institutions and in partner countries around the world who are making recommendations alongside our domestic experts on what we need to do now , ” he added .
According to Tam ’ s biography , she has served as an “ expert ” on other WHO committees and “ participated in multiple international missions related to SARS , pandemic influenza and polio eradication.
” Asked about the advice that Tam is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said today at a press conference that he does have concerns about the accuracy of the information and directions from Health Canada .
He added that he does not think Tam should be “ scapegoated ” for the decisions made , but rather the blame should lie directly on the Trudeau government .
Scheer thinks Canada should model what other countries have done to combat the coronavirus , which includes making decisions independently of the WHO .
Asked if Canada should give foreign aid to China today , Scheer said he does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money to China .
This question was asked to Scheer in light of new data from the Canadian Department of Affairs that shows Canada sent $ 41 million last year in foreign aid money to China .
“ We ’ re talking about a communist dictatorial government that abuses human rights , squashes freedoms , violates human rights for its citizens and has a very aggressive foreign policy all throughout the region , ” Scheer said .
“ We are seeing more and more signs of the role that China ’ s played @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this pandemic , but even before this pandemic there are clear signs that China is headed in a direction that is not in alignment with Canadian values when it comes to foreign policy.
” In 2013 , Trudeau openly spoke about his admiration for China .
He famously praised China ’ s “ basic dictatorship ” after a reporter asked him which country besides Canada he most admires .
Recently , two former Canadian diplomats who served in China warned that the Trudeau government ’ s silence on China could allow the regime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the world stage.
” Also , it was recently reported that the Trudeau government sent close to $ 1 million of taxpayer money to help fund coronavirus “ research ” in the Chinese lab where the virus is thought to have come from .
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China ’ s only level four biosafety lab and there has been speculation that it is plausible the coronavirus somehow escaped from its doors .
A paper authored by two Chinese scientists , Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao — both from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ traces how they think the virus escaped a Wuhan biolab that was researching Horseshoe bats .
Their February 2020 paper , titled “ The Possible Origins of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus , ” has since disappeared from the international scholarly database Research Gate but is still available through the Wayback Machine and on LifeSiteNews here .
In March , Trudeau tried to use the coronavirus as a “ totalitarian power grab ” to try and obtain extraordinary tax and spending powers .
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his administration to halt funding to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Zen challenged the WHO ’ s credibility in a tweet sent in response to an interview between WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward and a Hong Kong reporter .
Aylward is a Canadian epidemiologist who helped the WHO in the Wuhan region in its response to the coronavirus .
He was supposed to have appeared as a witness at a Canadian House of Commons health committee earlier in the week but cancelled his appearance at the last minute .
His no-show drew criticism from Conservative MPs .
He has been summoned to appear before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Alberta Premier calls out WHO and Tam ; Trudeau Liberals cut funding for pandemic preparedness Scheer was not alone in calling out Tam .
Earlier in the week , Alberta Premier Jason Kenney blasted Tam for her inaction to not close borders earlier and blindly follow China ’ s advice .
Kenney ’ s criticism of Tam came after she questioned his order to provincial health officials to “ not wait for Health Canada to catch up.
” They were instead asked to follow the lead of United States or European health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in combating the coronavirus .
“ This is the same Dr. Tam who was telling us that we shouldn ’ t close our borders to countries with high levels of infection and who in January was repeating talking points out of the PRC ( People ’ s Republic of China ) about no evidence of human-to-human transmission , ” Kenney said .
Recently , Kenney ’ s Alberta government said they are planning to use people ’ s cell phones as a tool to track their whereabouts to combat the coronavirus .
At @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highlighted a new report about the Trudeau government cutting funding for pandemic preparedness .
Five warehouses were closed , and all the stockpile of medical supplies ordered were destroyed .
In one warehouse in Regina alone , a total of 440,000 medical gloves along with 2 million masks were tossed .
Justin Trudeau - Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa , ON K1A 0A2 Fax : 613-941-6900 [ email protected ] https : //pm.gc.ca/en/connect/contact

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April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s chief public health officer, who has been called out for a lack of a proper response to the coronavirus epidemic, has direct ties to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Dr. Theresa Tam, who has served as Canada’s top health official since 2017, is one of seven people who sit on the Independent Oversight and Advisory Committee for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (IOAC). This committee is mandated to evaluate “the performance of the key functions in health emergencies.”
The WHO’s credibility has been questioned in light of the coronavirus epidemic, and there is mounting evidence that it lacks integrity and is heavily influenced by the Chinese regime.
On February 3, asked if she thought Canada should stop the flow of travelers from China, Tam dismissed the idea as not necessary, saying a travel ban could “do more harm than good.”
Tam added that closing borders could “negatively affect a certain country that’s trying very hard to do its best, can impede whether this country in the future will ever share anything transparently with others … I think the idea is to support China.”
It was not until mid-March that Canada officially closed its borders to non-citizens and permanent residents.
Rebel News recently called for her to be fired for her ties to the WHO and a lack of a proper response to the coronavirus epidemic. In a petition launched Thursday titled FireTam.com, Rebel News demands that Tam be replaced.
“She has to work for Canadians — not foreign dictatorships,” says the Rebel News petition, which as of today had nearly 19,000 signatures.
“Her loyalty to the WHO is why she has given such bizarre advice to Canadians — like telling us not to wear masks. That never made any sense — until you realize she was taking orders from China’s WHO.”
The government of pro-abortion Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has persisted in backing the WHO. Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Wednesday that she still has confidence in the WHO.
“Canada values the work of the World Health Organization and we continue to commit to contribute towards the work of the organization. It is a very valuable tool,” she said at a press conference
Tam’s lack of action over combating the coronavirus pandemic in Canada has also been called out by opposition politicians.
At a Tuesday press conference, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer directly questioned the WHO’s credibility and its apparent ties with China.
“We have very serious concerns. Many concerns have been raised about the accuracy of the World Health Organization’s data, the influence that China has on the World Health Organization,” Scheer said.
On Wednesday, Scheer again stated his concern about the WHO and its relationship with China.
“We've seen examples of how the communist, autocratic, human rights-abusing government of China has had an inordinate effect on the WHO. There's evidence of suppressing information, not being open and transparent about the number of cases. Those are very concerning,” Scheer said.
Asked earlier in the week if he shares concerns raised by Scheer about the WHO’s credibility, Trudeau said “there’s obviously reflections that we have to have going forward,” to “keep Canadians safe.”
“How do we lean on experts in international institutions and in partner countries around the world who are making recommendations alongside our domestic experts on what we need to do now,” he added.
According to Tam’s biography, she has served as an “expert” on other WHO committees and “participated in multiple international missions related to SARS, pandemic influenza and polio eradication.”
Asked about the advice that Tam is giving Canadians at this time, Scheer said today at a press conference that he does have concerns about the accuracy of the information and directions from Health Canada.
He added that he does not think Tam should be “scapegoated” for the decisions made, but rather the blame should lie directly on the Trudeau government.
Scheer thinks Canada should model what other countries have done to combat the coronavirus, which includes making decisions independently of the WHO.
Asked if Canada should give foreign aid to China today, Scheer said he does not believe Canadian taxpayers should be sending any money to China.
This question was asked to Scheer in light of new data from the Canadian Department of Affairs that shows Canada sent $41 million last year in foreign aid money to China.
“We’re talking about a communist dictatorial government that abuses human rights, squashes freedoms, violates human rights for its citizens and has a very aggressive foreign policy all throughout the region,” Scheer said.
“We are seeing more and more signs of the role that China’s played in influencing the World Health Organization during this pandemic, but even before this pandemic there are clear signs that China is headed in a direction that is not in alignment with Canadian values when it comes to foreign policy.”
In 2013, Trudeau openly spoke about his admiration for China. He famously praised China’s “basic dictatorship” after a reporter asked him which country besides Canada he most admires.
Recently, two former Canadian diplomats who served in China warned that the Trudeau government’s silence on China could allow the regime to further its “increasingly belligerent actions on the world stage.”
Also, it was recently reported that the Trudeau government sent close to $1 million of taxpayer money to help fund coronavirus “research” in the Chinese lab where the virus is thought to have come from.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China’s only level four biosafety lab and there has been speculation that it is plausible the coronavirus somehow escaped from its doors.
A paper authored by two Chinese scientists, Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao — both from the state-run South China University of Technology — traces how they think the virus escaped a Wuhan biolab that was researching Horseshoe bats. Their February 2020 paper, titled “The Possible Origins of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus,” has since disappeared from the international scholarly database Research Gate but is still available through the Wayback Machine and on LifeSiteNews here.
In March, Trudeau tried to use the coronavirus as a “totalitarian power grab” to try and obtain extraordinary tax and spending powers.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his administration to halt funding to the organization.
In March, Cardinal Joseph Zen challenged the WHO’s credibility in a tweet sent in response to an interview between WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward and a Hong Kong reporter.
Aylward is a Canadian epidemiologist who helped the WHO in the Wuhan region in its response to the coronavirus. He was supposed to have appeared as a witness at a Canadian House of Commons health committee earlier in the week but cancelled his appearance at the last minute.
His no-show drew criticism from Conservative MPs. He has been summoned to appear before the health committee prior to May 1.
Alberta Premier calls out WHO and Tam; Trudeau Liberals cut funding for pandemic preparedness
Scheer was not alone in calling out Tam. Earlier in the week, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney blasted Tam for her inaction to not close borders earlier and blindly follow China’s advice.
Kenney’s criticism of Tam came after she questioned his order to provincial health officials to “not wait for Health Canada to catch up.” They were instead asked to follow the lead of United States or European health officials who are ahead of the curve in combating the coronavirus.
“This is the same Dr. Tam who was telling us that we shouldn’t close our borders to countries with high levels of infection and who in January was repeating talking points out of the PRC (People’s Republic of China) about no evidence of human-to-human transmission,” Kenney said.
Recently, Kenney’s Alberta government said they are planning to use people’s cell phones as a tool to track their whereabouts to combat the coronavirus.
At today’s press conference, Scheer highlighted a new report about the Trudeau government cutting funding for pandemic preparedness. Five warehouses were closed, and all the stockpile of medical supplies ordered were destroyed.
In one warehouse in Regina alone, a total of 440,000 medical gloves along with 2 million masks were tossed.
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Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
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lifesitenews--2020-04-17--Are globalists using coronavirus crisis as battering ram to destroy, remake world order?

April 17 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In February of 2017 , I was inspired by a Remnant TV video on President Trump ’ s inauguration speech titled “ Here ’ s why they hate him .
I followed up by writing “ The surprising real reason for the hate against Donald Trump ” that ended up being one of our most viewed articles of 2017 .
I suggest you read it to better understand the significance of the new video , Covid-19 : Globalism ’ s perfect storm , presented below and my deep concerns about a larger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on in conjunction with the Wuhan virus pandemic .
( Note : I call it the “ Wuhan virus ” because the general norm has been to use the location from which a pandemic virus came in the name of the virus whereas the corrupt WHO , in response to pressure from Communist China , has insisted we all use the innocuous “ covid-19 ” nomenclature . )
Since its beginning , LifeSite has specialized in presenting readers with a unique big picture of the many connections between many issues that threaten life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accompanying video you will be presented with crucial information and questions about the extraordinary developments now taking place .
The theme of the 2017 article was that Donald Trump is hated above all because he was seen as a great threat to globalists ’ plans to implement their anti-God , anti-family and anti-life New World Order ( NWO ) under President Clinton .
As it has turned out , the article was more accurate than I could have ever imagined .
The globalists have since done everything possible , with the full cooperation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news mainstream media , to try to convince the public that Trump is an evil , incompetent and corrupt man who has to be removed from the U.S. presidency .
They need that to happen in order to carry on plans to permanently change America , destroy the capitalist system and replace it with a new globalist-controlled economy and radically change the world .
Don ’ t believe me ?
Watch the video .
The Wuhan virus appears to be an incredible and suspiciously timely gift for the globalists to push through their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have expected .
They have even gone so far as to appear to not want a quick solution to the virus by ridiculing and trying to stop promising treatments already saving the lives of many infected patients .
See below the Remnant video that will illustrate much of what I am trying to convey in this article .
It is a hard-hitting , blunt Remnant TV-style video .
If you don ’ t like that style , that is your preference , but I strongly suggest you hold your nose and watch it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other evidence that should lead you to ask many serious questions .
If you don ’ t watch the video you will be much poorer for it in trying to understanding , as Michael says , “ the reckless , irresponsible insanity ” and real purpose of the extreme mitigation efforts causing massive fear and economic devastation and the real purpose of the barrage of media attacks on President Trump .
Note that there are some death and infection statistics in the video .
They are not meant to be authoritative and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confusion about the Wuhan virus infection and death rates .
This video was released last Friday , April 10 .
There has been a sea change since then on the stats .
The reported death rates have varied from 8 % or more in Italy and even higher in some cities and regions down to a low of .4 % in Germany .
Now that testing has become far more accurate and frequent , we are learning , as Michael says in the video , that the numbers do not justify the fear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and economy crushing mitigation efforts put in place in many nations .
However , the virus is admittedly still very concerning and not fully understood .
Recovery rates are much lower and dangerous for persons with the often-stated underlying health conditions .
They need special protections .
It also seems infection can cause lifelong damage to heart and lung tissues and perhaps more .
In general , though , the latest statistics indicate that we must stop being so traumatized over the virus which will , likely a lot sooner than many have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far less serious threat .
Very encouraging new information on the latest infection and death stats on the Wuhan virus are discussed later in this article .
After his election , President Trump quickly attempted to fulfill all his campaign promises , the most significant being his many pro-life statements and actions and his withdrawal of the United States from the globalist ’ s central New World Order Paris Climate Accord .
That latter action was an incredibly gutsy move with almost all the other G20 nations putting heavy pressure on him to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actively pro-life than we ever expected , unfortunately , on abortion defunding , he was blocked time and again , especially by both Democrat and Republican globalists and otherwise corrupt RHINO ’ s ( Republican in name only ) in Congress .
They had other priorities that prevented him from getting what he promised without sacrificing other , what I presume were more immediate concerns for him , such as saving a dangerously weak U.S. economy and a weak , crumbling U.S. military , both at a time when Communist China was known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world .
In 2017 , I could not have imagined Pope Francis would have gone as far as he has into pantheism and idolatry , regularly using Masonic phrases such as the “ Brotherhood of man ” and human fraternity and calling all religions as being willed by God .
He has frequently met and consulted with numerous , world-leading anti-life , New World Order globalists in the Vatican .
The last straw for me has been the Pope ’ s recent madman-sounding statements proclaiming that the Wuhan pandemic is a result of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man ’ s harm to the environment and “ nature ’ s response ” to environmental damage .
Unfortunately , after decades of indoctrination in education institutes and the media , a disturbing number of people , including some of my neighbors , are also saying and genuinely believing that man ’ s harm to the earth and its climate has caused this virus .
This is how revolutions begin , when the public become sufficiently indoctrinated with dangerous , irrational ideologies to the point that they can be convinced to accept and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic changes .
In mid-January of this year , I wrote the following agenda items for our first board and staff meetings for 2020 .
I had a strong sense , from observing many news developments , that 2020 was going to be a year unlike any in our lives and that there was an atmosphere of an impending war of some type .
I also sensed that from having lived through the times of the Korean War , the Cold War , the Vietnam War and from hearing my parents ’ and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harsh WWII experiences .
2020 : The year ahead - Anticipate and be prepared to cover • All-out push on globalist agenda re : climate change , world governance , extensive new controls on Internet freedom , suppression of religion • US Democrats , the UN and media , entertainment and tech giant allies working together to advance New World Order • Vatican increasingly close working relationship with top globalists to blend New World Order secular issues with new international religious syncretism • China , Russia , and the still huge influence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Global compact on Education has been delayed until later in the year because of the virus , but it is still coming .
Item number 8 does not yet seem to be happening , but there are still 8 1/2 and months left in 2020 .
In early January , no one would have expected what we are now enduring from the Wuhan virus .
I am certain that there will be even more huge , unexpected developments this year that we can not now even imagine .
Why so many failures on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been many complaints over the early grave failures and incompetence of the U.S. Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) and Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) over testing for the virus and prohibiting use of drugs that are actually saving lives .
In the U.S. , doctors are angry over the bureaucratic bungling , death-causing , statistic-distorting restrictions on who can test , what tests can be used and when to test for the virus .
We have to ask why this bungling that keeps stalling the U.S. fight against the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Was it just honest errors or was there more to it ?
I believe powerful forces are exploiting this pandemic to push through ultimate acceptance of their New World Order that would theoretically follow a convenient economic collapse caused by far higher deaths rates — fixed through manipulating how Wuhan virus deaths are recorded — than would otherwise have occurred .
We need to ask why we are risking the collapse of the world economy with extreme , never-before-imposed virus mitigation policies and why very influential interests seem to be exploiting the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seem that the crippling restrictions are being excessively prolonged in some nations and regions ?
As many have been writing and saying , “ the numbers don ’ t add up ” or make sense .
Such huge variances can not be right .
Something must be wrong with the testing , recording and reporting of infections and deaths and with the types of treatments that the infected are receiving in one region or hospital versus another .
Wuhan virus infection and death rates not as fearful as thought So far , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ directly attributed to the Wuhan virus are not even close to that of past pandemics .
The CDC has been accused by many of inflating the US figures .
The World Health Organization reports that just the common flu has in recent years led to an annual 5 million infections and 650,000 deaths .
And yet we have never done anything remotely as drastic as being imposed on the public now in order to prevent those flu deaths .
On top of that , annual flu mortalities do not compare to past pandemics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The situation in Italy has terrified leaders in many nations who have not yet experienced a Wuhan virus peak .
But now we know that what occurred in Italy was more unique to factors there and has not been a typical outcome of this virus infection .
Bloomberg news reported that “ More than 99 % of Italy ’ s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from one or more previous medical conditions , according to a study by the country ’ s national health authority.
” They also reported : “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve died from the virus in Italy is 79.5 .
As of March 17 , 17 people under 50 had died from the disease .
All of Italy ’ s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.
” While data released Tuesday point to a slowdown in the increase of cases , with a 12.6 % rise , a separate study shows Italy could be underestimating the real number of cases by testing only patients presenting symptoms .
That is , the actual death rate was likely “ closer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
” An Israeli scientist reported April 14 : “ We ’ re already in the final stages of the coronavirus epidemic ’ which , he claims , peaks at 6 weeks & ‘ disappears ’ by week 8 - in all countries , regardless of measures taken.
” This is likely not to go on as long as some political and other leaders have been very scarily stating .
Two days ago Breitbart reported on a very encouraging Economist article stating : “ If millions of people were infected weeks ago without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deadly than official data suggest , ” the magazine determined , using graphs to suggest the faster the disease spreads and hits its peak , the fewer people will die .
The Economist article cited a new study by Justin Silverman and Alex Washburne that used data on influenza-like illness ( ili ) to show that the coronavirus ( SARS-COV-2 ) is now widespread in America .
Silverman and Washburne found that the coronavirus mortality rate could be as low as 0.1 percent , “ similar to that of flu.
” An April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wuhan virus indicated that only 0.9 % of deaths from the virus were of persons who had no pre-existing conditions .
Therefore , if you do not have any of the 5 pre-existing conditions listed on the report you have a very high possibility of surviving infection by the virus .
Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told `` Tucker Carlson Tonight '' this past Tuesday that he believes the actual death rate from the coronavirus pandemic is `` likely orders of magnitude lower than the initial estimates . ''
`` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it 's as deadly as people thought , '' Bhattacharya told host Tucker Carlson.
`` ...
The World Health Organization put an estimate out that was , I think , initially 3.4 percent .
It 's very unlikely it is anywhere near that .
It 's much likely , much closer to the death rate that you see from the flu per case . ''
Globalists are open about their plans My strong suspicions were especially confirmed by an April 4 Wall Street Journal article by Henry Kissinger , one of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the article Kissinger stated : “ The reality is the world will never be the same after the coronavirus . '
” ( so he wishes ! )
He added that “ the US needs to work quickly to find a cure , pitch in to rebuild the global economy and protect the 'liberal world order ’ ” and that “ 'failure could set the world on fire ' ” .
Kissinger wants us all to continue to be very afraid so that we will all hopefully now accept the revolutionary and insane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fellow globalist generate sufficient fear they hope we will not resist being lured towards the loss of most of our rights and freedoms through accepting the false solution of their impossible , elitist-controlled utopia .
Joe Biden is another mad globalist who recently proclaimed that the Wuhan virus is “ an opportunity to ‘ fundamentally change the science relating to global warming ” .
LifeSite reported April 17 that Biden stated that a Biden presidency would lead to far-reaching changes to the American way of life .
“ I think we have an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the American people , ” he said .
Canadian ’ s must endure their globalist , extreme left , Communist China praising and totalitarian-minded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau using the pandemic to advance globalist objectives .
On April 9 , he stated , in tune with Kissinger , Bill Gates and other globalists : “ We will not be coming back to our former normal situation ; we can ’ t do that until we have developed a vaccine and that could take 12 to 18 months.
” Trudeau , a strong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has already been doing his best since he became Prime Minister to destroy Canada ’ s formerly healthy capitalist economy .
If he continues with his stated objective to keep the nation locked down for that long , the Canadian economy can not survive and Canadians will be where the One Worlders want us – at the mercy of Communist China and other globalist entities who will offer to supposedly save us .
Trudeau ’ s national public Health officer , Teresa Tam , has been telling Canadians all the propaganda from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the virus since the pandemic became a known international threat .
We learned yesterday from Rebel Media that while Tam has been Canada ’ s chief health officer , she has also been one of the seven people on the WHO ’ s oversight committee for health emergencies .
In other words , Canada ’ s response to the pandemic has been directed by the Chinese Communists who have openly stated that they want to destroy the economies of the West so that they can achieve their goal to dominate the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world and PM Trudeau is appearing to be most cooperative to ensure that Canada experiences maximum damage via the virus and his other devastating economic policies .
Ok , that is enough doom and gloom .
I realize that has been a lot and I hope no one has run screaming into the night after reading this far .
There is a silver lining to all of this .
The globalists are actually desperate and overreaching .
That is why they are doing so many extreme things in recent months .
They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the planet is dangerously heating up and must accept that all nations need to embrace their revolutionary New World Order , economic system , and governance .
In June of 2018 , George Soros the most influential of all the globalists , lamented , “ Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong ” , especially because of the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency .
Globalists are , in fact , not winning .
They are getting old and running out of time .
They know that if Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he will be , they are going to be held to account like no one has ever before held them to account for their criminal massive lies and manipulations .
Make sure you watch Michael Matt ’ s comments near the end of his video .
He gives strong reason for hope .
He says that “ This whole New World Order house of cards will all come tumbling down , but we need to open our eyes .
Say our prayers and have a Christocentric view of this ” in order to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If we get over the fears and start asking questions , we can do damage to these people , to what they are trying to do , to their agenda .
We have perhaps 15 days to slow this globalist police state in America ” ( and elsewhere ) .
It can be done .
The globalist agenda is built on fear , lies , deception .
It is not sustainable .
People eventually do catch on and rebel .
We must all resist and bring others along to join in that resistance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not about a virus , China ’ s Communist Party , a New World Order or elite interests trying to control the world .
There is a lot more that I could have written , especially regarding the over one billion abortions that have taken place in the world over the past several decades , the advance of the so-called LGBT agenda and much more .
I firmly believe that the extraordinary and truly frightening , rapid spread of this unusual virus , the imposition of extreme measures to try to contain it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the economic and social health of many nations , is only the first phase of an accounting for the massive turning away from God and his laws of love in most nations of the world .
The manner in which we respond to this first trial will , I believe , determine what catastrophes we may face again in the very near future .
That is , the Wuhan virus pandemic is a spiritual warning to a world that has almost totally turned away from God and is acting like the Jews @ @ @ @ @ @ @ build a pagan Golden Calf to worship instead of God who performed many great miracles and saved them from bondage to Pharoah and whom Moses was still encountering on top of the mountain .
We are still in great danger until we dramatically change our ways .
I do not yet see that happening .
Unless there is a major return to our Christian heritage and beliefs , this pandemic will be remembered as only a minor irritant compared to what the true Lord of the World will permit to bring us back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other writers have very admirably covered many spiritual and moral issues related to the pandemic .

'The Wuhan virus appears to be an incredible and suspiciously timely gift for the globalists to push through their agenda faster than any of us could have expected.'
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April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In February of 2017, I was inspired by a Remnant TV video on President Trump’s inauguration speech titled “Here’s why they hate him. I followed up by writing “The surprising real reason for the hate against Donald Trump” that was one of our most viewed articles of 2017. I suggest you read it to better understand the significance of the new video, Covid-19: Globalism’s perfect storm, presented below and my deep concerns about a larger, world-wide agenda that is definitely going on in conjunction with the Wuhan virus pandemic. (Note: I call it the “Wuhan virus” because the general norm has been to use the location from which a pandemic virus came in the naming of the virus whereas the corrupt WHO, in response to pressure from Communist China, has insisted we all use the innocuous “covid-19” nomenclature.)
Since its beginning, LifeSite has specialized in presenting readers with a unique big picture of the connections between many issues that threaten life and family. In this article and accompanying video you will be presented with crucial information and questions about the extraordinary developments now taking place.
The theme of the 2017 article was that Donald Trump is hated above all because he was seen as a great threat to globalists’ plans to implement their anti-God, anti-family and anti-life New World Order (NWO) under President Clinton. The article was more accurate than I could have ever imagined.
The globalists have since done everything possible, with the full cooperation of their vicious allies in the fake news mainstream media, to try to convince the public that Trump is an evil, incompetent and corrupt man who has to be removed from the U.S. presidency. They need that to happen in order to carry on plans to permanently change America, destroy the capitalist system and replace it with a new globalist-controlled economy and radically changed world.
Don’t believe me? Watch the video.
Coronavirus: A gift for globalists
The Wuhan virus appears to be an incredible and suspiciously timely gift for the globalists to push through their agenda faster than any of us could have expected. Some have even gone so far as to appear to not want a quick solution to the virus by ridiculing and trying to stop promising treatments already saving the lives of many infected patients.
See below the Remnant video that will illustrate what I am trying to convey in this article. It is a hard-hitting, blunt Remnant TV-style video. It compiles astonishing video clips and other evidence that should lead you to at least ask many serious questions. If you don’t watch the video you will be much poorer for it in trying to understand, as Michael says, “the reckless, irresponsible insanity” and real purpose of the extreme mitigation efforts causing massive fear and economic devastation and the real purpose of the barrage of media attacks on President Trump.
Note that there are some death and infection statistics in the video. They are not meant to be authoritative and are presented only to illustrate the massive confusion about the Wuhan virus infection and death rates. This video was released last Friday, April 10. There has been a sea change since then on the stats. The reported death rates have varied from 8% or more in Italy and even higher in some cities and regions down to a low of .4% in Germany.
Now that testing has become far more accurate and frequent, we are learning, as Michael says in the video, that the numbers do not justify the fear of dying and the extraordinary, rights and economy crushing mitigation efforts put in place in many nations. However, the virus is admittedly still very concerning and not fully understood. Recovery rates are much lower and dangerous for persons with the often-stated underlying health conditions. They need special protections. It also seems infection can also cause lifelong damage to heart and lung tissues and perhaps more.
In general, though, the latest statistics indicate that we must stop being so traumatized over the virus which will, likely a lot sooner than many have been warning, fade away into a far less serious threat. Very encouraging new information on the latest infection and death stats on the virus are discussed later in this article.
After his election, President Trump quickly attempted to fulfill all his campaign promises, the most significant being his many pro-life statements and actions and his withdrawal of the United States from the globalist’s central, New World Order Paris Climate Accord. That latter action was an incredibly gutsy move with almost all the other G20 nations putting heavy pressure on Trump to concede.
Although Trump has been more actively pro-life than we ever expected, unfortunately, on abortion defunding, he was blocked time and again, especially by both Democrat and Republican globalists and otherwise corrupt RINO’s (Republican in name only) in Congress. They had other priorities that prevented him from getting what he promised without sacrificing other, what I presume were more immediate concerns for him, such as saving a dangerously weak U.S. economy and a weak, crumbling U.S. military, both at a time when Communist China was known to be a serious threat to the world.
In 2017, I could not have imagined Pope Francis would have gone as far as he has into pantheism and idolatry, regularly using Masonic phrases such as the “Brotherhood of man” and human fraternity and calling all religions as being willed by God. He has frequently met and consulted with numerous, world-leading anti-life, New World Order globalists in the Vatican.
The segments in the Remnant video of Jeffrey Sachs, globalist guru and close associate of Bill Gates, UN’s Ban Ki Moon and George Soros, with the Vatican’s Communist China admirer Archbishop Sorondo strangely chuckling beside him (see longer version of Sach comments), are chilling. They are equal to segments in James Bond or Mission Impossible movies with their power-mad villans seeking to take over the world. Only this is not fiction. Watch to see what I mean starting at 26:22 in the video.
The last straw for me has been the Pope’s recent madman-sounding statements proclaiming that the Wuhan pandemic is a result of nature “having a fit” over man’s harm to the environment and “nature’s response” to environmental damage. Unfortunately, after decades of indoctrination in education institutes and the media, a disturbing number of people, including some of my neighbors, are also saying and genuinely believing that man’s harm to the earth and its climate has caused this virus.
This is how revolutions begin, when the public become sufficiently indoctrinated with irrational ideologies to the point that they can be convinced to accept and praise otherwise insane political, social and economic changes.
In mid-January of this year, I wrote the agenda items below for our first board and staff meetings for 2020. I had a strong sense, from observing many news developments, that 2020 was going to be a year unlike any in our lives and that there was an atmosphere of an impending war of some type. I also sensed that from having lived through the times of the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the devastating Kennedy assassinations and from hearing my parents’ and other relatives’ many stories of their harsh WWII experiences.
2020: The year ahead – Anticipate and be prepared to cover
Global Education Pact in May US election All-out push on globalist agenda re: climate change, world governance, extensive new controls on Internet freedom, suppression of religion Many totally unexpected developments US Democrats, the UN and media, entertainment and tech giant allies working together to advance New World Order Vatican increasingly close working relationship with top globalists to blend New World Order secular issues with new international religious syncretism China, Russia, and the still huge influence of international communist thinking Rising, more unified Islamism
The deeply concerning Vatican Global compact on Education has been delayed until later in the year because of the virus, but it is still coming. Item number 8 does not yet seem to be happening, but there are still 8 1/2 months left in 2020.
In early January, no one would have expected what we are now enduring from the Wuhan virus. I am certain that there will be even more huge developments this year that we cannot now even imagine.
Why so many failures on testing for the virus?
There have been many complaints over the early, terrible failures and incompetence of the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on testing for the virus and prohibiting use of drugs that are actually saving lives and for which there is not an shortage that can’t quickly be resolved. In the U.S., doctors are angry over the bureaucratic bungling, death-causing, statistic-distorting restrictions on who can be tested, what tests can be used and when to test for the virus.
We have to ask why this bungling that keeps stalling the U.S. fight against the virus has been allowed to happen. Was it just honest errors or was there more to it? I believe powerful forces are exploiting this pandemic to try to push through ultimate acceptance of their New World Order that would theoretically follow a convenient economic collapse caused by far higher deaths rates — some fudged through manipulating how Wuhan virus deaths are recorded — than would otherwise have occurred.
And then we have to ask about the news reports of overwhelmed testing facilities and hospitals that are in fact, in many cases, not overwhelmed at all as citizen reporters have been finding out as reported in the following video:
We need to ask why we are risking the collapse of the world economy with extreme, never-before-imposed virus mitigation policies and why very influential interests seem to be exploiting the pandemic for other agendas. Why does it seem that some keep talking about a need to keep crippling restrictions going for possibly much longer than we can cope with?
As many have been writing and saying, “the numbers don’t add up” or make sense. Such huge variances cannot be right. Something must be wrong with the testing, recording and reporting of infections and deaths and with the types of treatments that the infected are receiving in one region or hospital versus another.
Wuhan virus infection and death rates not as fearful as thought
So far, the 2.2 million worldwide infections and 152,328 deaths directly attributed to the Wuhan virus are not even close to that of past pandemics or even regular, annual flu infections and deaths. The CDC has been accused by many of inflating the US figures. The World Health Organization reports that just the common flu has in recent years led to an annual 500 million infections and 650,000 deaths. And yet we have never done anything remotely as drastic as is being imposed on the public now in order to prevent Wuhan virus infections.
The situation in Italy has terrified leaders in many nations who have not yet experienced a Wuhan virus peak. But now we know that what occurred in Italy was more unique to factors there and has not been a typical outcome of this virus infection. Bloomberg news reported that “More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from one or more previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority.”
They also reported:
The average age of those who’ve died from the virus in Italy is 79.5. As of March 17, 17 people under 50 had died from the disease. All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions. While data released Tuesday point to a slowdown in the increase of cases, with a 12.6% rise, a separate study shows Italy could be underestimating the real number of cases by testing only patients presenting symptoms. That is, the actual death rate was likely “closer to the global average of 2%.”
An Israeli scientist reported April 14: “We’re already in the final stages of the coronavirus epidemic’ which, he claims, peaks at 6 weeks & ‘disappears’ by week 8 – in all countries, regardless of measures taken.”
This is likely not going to go on as long as some political and other leaders have been very scarily stating and almost wishing.
Two days ago Breitbart reported on a very encouraging Economist article stating:
The Economist article cited a new study by Justin Silverman and Alex Washburne that used data on influenza-like illness (ili) to show that the coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is now widespread in America. “If millions of people were infected weeks ago without dying, the virus must be less deadly than official data suggest,” the magazine determined, using graphs to suggest the faster the disease spreads and hits its peak, the fewer people will die.
Brietbart noted that “Silverman and Washburne found that the coronavirus mortality rate could be as low as 0.1 percent, “similar to that of flu.”’
Stanford University professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” this past Tuesday that he believes the actual death rate from the coronavirus pandemic is “likely orders of magnitude lower than the initial estimates.”
“Per case, I don’t think it’s as deadly as people thought,” Bhattacharya told host Tucker Carlson. ” … The World Health Organization put an estimate out that was, I think, initially 3.4 percent. It’s very unlikely it is anywhere near that. It’s much likely, much closer to the death rate that you see from the flu per case.”
Finally, April 17 reported results from the first community test in the U.S. for COVID-19 antibodies conducted by Stanford University strongly suggest the Wuhan virus “could be 50 to 80 times more infectious than previously believed.” The conclusion is that infections from the virus are “far more widespread and thus less dangerous than expected.”
Globalists are open about their plans
My strong suspicions were especially confirmed by an April 4 Wall Street Journal article by Henry Kissinger, one of the most influential globalists and author of the long classified NSSM 200 population control report that the pro-life Interim Newspaper and a few others exposed to the world in 1998 . In the article Kissinger stated in the Wall Street Journal:
“The reality is the world will never be the same after the coronavirus.’” (so he wishes!)
He added that “the US needs to work quickly to find a cure, pitch in to rebuild the global economy and protect the ‘liberal world order’” and that “’failure could set the world on fire’”.
Kissinger wants us all to continue to be very afraid so that we will hopefully now accept the revolutionary and insane, if not demonic globalist policies. If he and his fellow globalists generate sufficient panic they hope we will not resist being lured towards the loss of most of our rights and freedoms through accepting the false solution of their impossible, elitist-controlled utopia.
Joe Biden is another mad globalist who recently proclaimed that the Wuhan virus is “an opportunity to ‘fundamentally change the science relating to global warming”. LifeSite reported April 17 that Biden stated that a Biden presidency would lead to far-reaching changes to the American way of life. “I think we have an opportunity now to significantly change the mindset of the American people,” he said.
Canadian’s must endure their globalist, extreme left, Communist China praising and totalitarian-minded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who appears to be using the pandemic to advance globalist objectives. On April 9, he stated, in tune with Kissinger, Bill Gates and other globalists:
“We will not be coming back to our former normal situation; we can’t do that until we have developed a vaccine and that could take 12 to 18 months.”
Trudeau, a strong supporter of the globalist Paris Climate Accord, has already been doing his best since he became Prime Minister to destroy Canada’s formerly healthy capitalist economy. If he continues with his stated objective to keep the nation locked down for that long, the Canadian economy cannot survive and Canadians will be where the One Worlders want us – at the mercy of Communist China and other globalist entities who will offer to supposedly save us.
Trudeau’s national public Health officer, Teresa Tam, has been telling Canadians all the propaganda from Communist China and the World Health Organization about the virus since the pandemic became a known international threat. We learned yesterday from Rebel Media that while Tam has been Canada’s chief health officer, she has also been one of the seven people on the WHO’s oversight committee for health emergencies.
In other words, Canada’s response to the pandemic has been directed by the Chinese Communists who have openly stated that they want to destroy the economies of the West so that they can achieve their goal to dominate the world. They let this virus conveniently infect the world and PM Trudeau is appearing to be most cooperative to ensure that Canada experiences maximum damage via the virus and his other devastating economic policies.
A positive, hopeful note
Ok, that is enough doom and gloom. I realize that has been a lot and I hope no one has run screaming into the night after reading this far.
There is a silver lining to all of this. The globalists are actually desperate and overreaching. That is why they are doing so many extreme things in recent months. They have failed to sufficiently convince the world the planet is dangerously heating up and must embrace their revolutionary New World Order economic system and governance.
Worst of all for them, the pandemic has caused massive public and government questioning of globalist-engineered dependence upon Communist China and some other nations for critically needed medications, health supplies and numerous other manufactured products. In just a matter of weeks, there has been widespread, serious talk of rapidly undoing this dangerous dependency upon cheap, sometimes even slave labour manufactured items that used to be made in our own factories.
Eyes have also been opened wide to the inferior quality control and resultant dangerously flawed health items coming from China to supposedly help desperate nations with the Wuhan virus. Thankfully, most of the flaws in these recent shipments were caught and returned before being distributed to health care workers and hospitalized patients. Their use would have killed people.
Massive lawsuits and likely other severe penalites are in the works against China, the number one showcase nation of the New World Order globalists. The globalist-cheering, disgustingly profitable, information-controlling U.S tech giants, that have been addicted to low-wage foreign labor, are being urged to return production and services to the US and hire more Americans instead of low wage, out-of-country conscripts or legal and illegal new immigrants. Their total Democrat Party allegiance especially explains how they have gotten away with this for so long.
The globalist order has rapidly lost most of its lustre and credibility and come crashing down in just a few months.
In June of 2018, George Soros, the most influential of all the globalists, lamented, “Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong”, especially because of the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. Globalists are, in fact, not winning. They are getting old and running out of time. They know that if Donald Trump is re-elected, and for now it very much looks like he will be, they are going to be held to account like no one has ever before held them to account for their criminal lies and manipulations.
Make sure you watch Michael Matt’s comments near the end of his video. He gives strong reason for hope. He says that “This whole New World Order house of cards will all come tumbling down, but we need to open our eyes. Say our prayers and have a Christocentric view of this” in order to fight it.
He continues: “If we get over the fears and start asking questions, we can do damage to these people, to what they are trying to do, to their agenda. We have perhaps 20 days (as of last Friday) to slow this globalist police state in America” (and elsewhere).
It can be done.
The globalist agenda is built on fear, lies, deception. It is not sustainable. People eventually do catch on and rebel.
We must all resist and bring others along to join in that resistance.
Spiritual warning
Ultimately, this entire issue is not about a virus, China’s Communist Party, a New World Order or elite interests trying to control the world. There is a lot more that I could have written, especially the attempt to exploit the pandemic to actually increase the already over one billion abortions that have taken place in the world and much more.
I firmly believe that the extraordinary and truly frightening, rapid spread of this unusual virus, the imposition of extreme measures to try to contain it and the resulting grave danger it poses to the economic and social health of many nations, is only the first phase of an accounting for the massive turning away from God and his laws of love and resultant moral collapse in most nations of the world. The manner in which we respond to this first trial will, I believe, determine what catastrophes we may face again in the very near future and whether God will further withdraw his hand of protection from great evils.
That is, the Wuhan virus pandemic is a spiritual warning to a world that has almost totally rejected God and is acting like the Jews at the bottom of Mount Sinai who built a pagan Golden Calf to worship instead of God who performed many great miracles and saved them from bondage to Pharoah and whom Moses was still encountering on top of the mountain.
We are still in great danger until we dramatically change our ways.
I do not yet see that happening, except for a very few encourging good souls here and there.
Unless there is a major return to our Christian heritage and beliefs, this pandemic will be remembered as only a minor irritant compared to what else God will permit to bring us back to our senses.
LifeSite’s other writers have very admirably covered many spiritual and moral issues related to the pandemic.
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lifesitenews--2020-04-17--Nazi law prohibited homeschooling in Germany. Coronavirus has made that unenforceable

April 17 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – All families in Germany , where homeschooling is officially banned , started educating their children at home in mid-March , thanks to the coronavirus pandemic .
The 1938 Nazi law prohibiting homeschooling , which postwar German governments essentially retained , is temporarily not enforced .
LifeSiteNews talked to Hedwig Hageböck , a young German in her early 20s who was homeschooled just across the border in France .
She is now studying to become a teacher , and has translated into German several books by Cardinal Robert Sarah , Prefect of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Sacraments .
Hageböck explained that , as a child , she was about to start ninth grade when her family moved to France .
Prior to that , she had attended a regular school in Germany .
“ As far as personal relationships are concerned , this was of course painful , ” she recounted .
“ But I was also looking forward to spending more time with my family .
The way of independent learning suited me very well .
Already in my school days I loved to learn freely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Now , Hageböck was able “ to create my own schedule , take more time for the things that were more important to me , and delve into a topic over a longer period of time.
” When schools were closed after the outbreak of the coronavirus in Germany , millions of students were faced with a problem : There are no ready-made programs for homeschooling .
Hageböck and her family were faced with a similar situation back in 2009 .
“ We had to completely reorganize ourselves and find possible learning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
“ This process is not yet complete because we always come across new things or notice that there is room for improvement.
” She pointed out that sometimes even regular textbooks can be used for home education , since they are “ well prepared and self-explanatory , making them ideal for autodidacts.
” Languages , she continued , were not simply studied but lived , “ mainly during longer stays with native speaking families.
” While it is more labor intensive to create a homeschool curriculum , “ it is also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs.
” German politicians , as well as other opponents to homeschooling , generally resort to one argument : If children are educated at home , they are socially isolated , which would not be the case in a regular school .
Even though homeschooling is practiced in many countries worldwide without creating millions of socially awkward people , many Germans think this would be different in their own country .
Hageböck admitted that , theoretically , there is a greater danger of social isolation among homeschooling families .
“ But almost all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to provide their children with many different contacts , not only with peers .
This happens in sports and music clubs ( for which there is more time ) , with the scouts , in the parish , with neighbors and friends who support the project as teachers in some way , and of course among each other.
” In countries like the United States , where homeschooling is quite common , people are aware that there are groups and co-ops everywhere supporting individual families and providing numerous opportunities for social engagement .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for real life .
“ I know of homeschoolers who have successfully gained a foothold in a wide variety of professions , ” she told LifeSiteNews .
“ Of course there are things ‘ normal people ’ learned at school that I can not or do not know , ” she said .
“ But conversely , I also had a lot of time to learn things that I am personally more interested in and that you don ’ t hear in school.
” She pointed to real life skills a young person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ For example , self-organization and independent learning at the university was nothing new for me .
During the intensive time at home , I also learned all the tasks that come up in the household .
In changing roles , each child took over the responsibility for cooking , washing , cleaning , gardening , shopping , etc.
” Hageböck said she might someday educate her own children at home .
However , as she would like to live in Germany , there are obvious difficulties .
In any case , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could change the legal situation .
At the same time , she had words of caution regarding the current involuntary homeschooling experiment in Germany .
“ The suddenness of the current situation , academic demands , tension in families , isolation , and uncertainty about the outcome of the pandemic will lead many families to take a negative view of the current opportunity to practice homeschooling , ” she said .
On a positive note , she said parents “ are now obliged to take an interest in the education of their children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can gain a better insight into their children ’ s academic strengths and weaknesses and help them individually.
” “ Perhaps now is a good time to use these experiences to raise one ’ s voice in Germany , whether as teachers , parents or pupils , and to call for the option of homeschooling , ” Hageböck suggested .
She also pointed out that after schools are opened again , parents could argue that they would like to keep their children at home for health reasons .
Legalizing homeschooling , Hageböck concluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of freedom , allowing parents to decide for themselves where and how their children receive education .
I see no good reason to withhold this freedom from people in Germany.
” Some schools in Germany are planning to reopen next week .
For the most part , however , a step-by-step reopening is scheduled for early May .
One of the most famous German homeschooling families , the Romeikes , emigrated to the United States in 2008 .
In 2014 , the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) announced that they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” meaning the family was not going to be deported to Germany , after all .
“ Germany ’ s persecution of homeschooling parents continues and is one reason , I suspect , that DHS was willing to grant the family indefinite status , ” Mike Donnelly , director of international affairs for the Home School Legal Defense Association ( HSLDA ) , said at the time .
“ How could our country send this loving peaceful family back to be crushed by outrageous fines , criminal prosecution , and the loss of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another family prisoner only because they wanted to leave to go to France to homeschool their children .
How could we send the Romeikes back to be treated like that ?
”

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, all families in Germany started educating their children at home, even though homeschooling has been banned since the time of Hitler.
April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – All families in Germany, where homeschooling is officially banned, started educating their children at home in mid-March, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. The 1938 Nazi law prohibiting homeschooling, which postwar German governments essentially retained, is temporarily not enforced.
LifeSiteNews talked to Hedwig Hageböck, a young German in her early 20s who was homeschooled just across the border in France. She is now studying to become a teacher, and has translated into German several books by Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Hageböck explained that, as a child, she was about to start ninth grade when her family moved to France. Prior to that, she had attended a regular school in Germany.
“As far as personal relationships are concerned, this was of course painful,” she recounted. “But I was also looking forward to spending more time with my family. The way of independent learning suited me very well. Already in my school days I loved to learn freely and to work things out for myself.”
Now, Hageböck was able “to create my own schedule, take more time for the things that were more important to me, and delve into a topic over a longer period of time.”
When schools were closed after the outbreak of the coronavirus in Germany, millions of students were faced with a problem: There are no ready-made programs for homeschooling.
Hageböck and her family were faced with a similar situation back in 2009.
“We had to completely reorganize ourselves and find possible learning paths for each subject,” she said. “This process is not yet complete because we always come across new things or notice that there is room for improvement.”
She pointed out that sometimes even regular textbooks can be used for home education, since they are “well prepared and self-explanatory, making them ideal for autodidacts.” Languages, she continued, were not simply studied but lived, “mainly during longer stays with native speaking families.”
While it is more labor intensive to create a homeschool curriculum, “it is also very exciting and helps to meet individual needs.”
German politicians, as well as other opponents to homeschooling, generally resort to one argument: If children are educated at home, they are socially isolated, which would not be the case in a regular school. Even though homeschooling is practiced in many countries worldwide without creating millions of socially awkward people, many Germans think this would be different in their own country.
Hageböck admitted that, theoretically, there is a greater danger of social isolation among homeschooling families. “But almost all families I know make an intensive effort to provide their children with many different contacts, not only with peers. This happens in sports and music clubs (for which there is more time), with the scouts, in the parish, with neighbors and friends who support the project as teachers in some way, and of course among each other.”
In countries like the United States, where homeschooling is quite common, people are aware that there are groups and co-ops everywhere supporting individual families and providing numerous opportunities for social engagement.
Hageböck also stressed that homeschooling prepares children for real life. “I know of homeschoolers who have successfully gained a foothold in a wide variety of professions,” she told LifeSiteNews.
“Of course there are things ‘normal people’ learned at school that I cannot or do not know,” she said. “But conversely, I also had a lot of time to learn things that I am personally more interested in and that you don’t hear in school.”
She pointed to real life skills a young person is made familiar with while being homeschooled.
“For example, self-organization and independent learning at the university was nothing new for me. During the intensive time at home, I also learned all the tasks that come up in the household. In changing roles, each child took over the responsibility for cooking, washing, cleaning, gardening, shopping, etc.”
Hageböck said she might someday educate her own children at home. However, as she would like to live in Germany, there are obvious difficulties. In any case, she expressed hope that the coronavirus pandemic could change the legal situation.
At the same time, she had words of caution regarding the current involuntary homeschooling experiment in Germany.
“The suddenness of the current situation, academic demands, tension in families, isolation, and uncertainty about the outcome of the pandemic will lead many families to take a negative view of the current opportunity to practice homeschooling,” she said.
On a positive note, she said parents “are now obliged to take an interest in the education of their children. At the same time, they can gain a better insight into their children’s academic strengths and weaknesses and help them individually.”
“Perhaps now is a good time to use these experiences to raise one’s voice in Germany, whether as teachers, parents or pupils, and to call for the option of homeschooling,” Hageböck suggested.
She also pointed out that after schools are opened again, parents could argue that they would like to keep their children at home for health reasons.
Legalizing homeschooling, Hageböck concluded, “would simply be an extension of freedom, allowing parents to decide for themselves where and how their children receive education. I see no good reason to withhold this freedom from people in Germany.”
Some schools in Germany are planning to reopen next week. For the most part, however, a step-by-step reopening is scheduled for early May.
One of the most famous German homeschooling families, the Romeikes, emigrated to the United States in 2008. In 2014, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that they are granting “indefinite deferred action status,” meaning the family was not going to be deported to Germany, after all.
“Germany’s persecution of homeschooling parents continues and is one reason, I suspect, that DHS was willing to grant the family indefinite status,” Mike Donnelly, director of international affairs for the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), said at the time.
“How could our country send this loving peaceful family back to be crushed by outrageous fines, criminal prosecution, and the loss of their children? Today Germany is holding another family prisoner only because they wanted to leave to go to France to homeschool their children. How could we send the Romeikes back to be treated like that?”
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