One more reason we need lawful courts

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Summary

In October 2022, my employer suspended me for five days without pay for discussing in public official Government of Canada data related to COVID-19 vaccines: including in public-service data science forums, social media and at the Freedom Convoy. I am accused of having "willingly posted information that is contrary to the message that the Government of Canada is promoting which is that COVID-19 vaccines were safe and effective".

My position has been that the data showed what it showed. I used my professional data science skills (science.gorodnichy,ca), to make official public data easier to understand, for the benefit of public servants and Canadians. Given the observed trends, there was urgency and a moral duty to share this information.

I used all democratic and professional tools available to me at the time to express concerns arising from these observations. This included an Open Letter to the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Dr. Mona Nemer; a submission to the Office of the Auditor General; attempts to file a complaint with the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner; inviting other data scientists to validate the data and the concerning observations, and collectively discussing how to address these issues in a climate of fear of reprisal.

My actions were guided by the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service, by good faith, and by conscience. The urgency arose from rising mortality starting with vaccination, in particular among younger Canadians — trends that were later acknowledged by Health Canada, nine months after the fact. I understood that timely access to factual public information could save lives and reduce the risk of preventable harm associated with new medical products that lacked long-term post-marketing data.

Many colleagues, both within and outside the public service, assisted with data analysis and validation and shared the same concerns. However, many expressed fear of reprisal and chose to remain anonymous, then and now. In this context, I realized I should act as a public voice - for a number of reasons:
Firstly, by that time, with 20+ years in public service, I was one of the most renown and referenced data scientists within the Government of Canada, exactly in the field of vendor product evaluation and data

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