Closing Statements
Day 4 · September 11, 2026 · 0:31:29
Key points Organizer Sean delivers closing remarks recounting how the Allison Inquiry originated from a 2024 meeting with MP Dean Allison, who wanted simply to listen to vaccine-injured Canadians. He describes the rushed organization of the inquiry within weeks, crediting his wife Teresa as main organizer, numerous volunteers, and his faith for making it possible. He notes the inquiry resonated widely online, reportedly trending seventh globally, and says it raised the issue of COVID-19 vaccine injury despite limited mainstream media coverage. He frames the event around the theme that Canadians are a nation of storytellers, arguing it is cruel to exclude people from sharing their experiences and that citizens should take the lead. He highlights the testimony of Michael McNair, a former Armed Forces member, as an example of visible moral injury, and echoes his message that 'we are all in this together.' MP Dean Allison closes by saying the silence has been broken, thanking witnesses, expert witnesses, interpreters, independent media, and volunteers. He calls for continued public discussion, more questions, transparency, accountability, resistance to censorship, and better care for the injured, stressing the inquiry was a beginning, not the final word.
Speaker 1
0:02 So Jasmine is our last witness. 0:07 Chairperson is allowing me to give some closing comments and then the chair is going to give some closing comments. 0:15 And I need to thank some people for enabling this inquiry to happen. 0:26 And the first person I need to thank is I need to thank our God. 0:32 This inquiry has a really unusual start. 0:38 My wife Teresa and I were, we traveled to Ottawa last year on a different venture and we had an event on Parliament Hill on October 23rd and a mutual friend who is in the gallery said, oh, you guys need to stay and meet with MP Dean Ellison. 1:00 And so we stayed till Monday and we 1:02 met with MP Dean Allison, Theresa and I. 1:07 And, you know, we all got along well and had a nice visit. 1:12 It was just an initial thing. 1:14 And MP Allison had said, you know, I've been wanting to hold an inquiry just to listen to vaccine injured Canadians, nothing more than that, just listen. 1:28 And it was interesting because 1:30 He would say things like, why can't I listen to Canadians? 1:37 What's wrong with listening to Canadians? 1:39 Which is telegraphing that he doesn't feel that it's possible politically for him to do that. 1:46 And Teresa and I, who have some experience in putting things like this on, had said, well, if you decide to do that, then we may be willing to help you. 2:00 Because it's a big commitment, as all the volunteers know, to put something like this on. 2:06 So that was that. 2:08 We parted ways. 2:09 And a couple of months later, the Holy Spirit was prompting Teresa to contact Dean and say, hey, do you want to do this? 2:17 Do you want to do this? 2:18 And so we started having conversations. 2:21 And in fact, you know, when I 2:24 a person that I've come to really appreciate. 2:27 You know, we're on a Zoom call and just thought this was a terrible idea, right? 2:32 And, you know, but Dean was kind of excited about it. 2:35 But we got to this point where we're on a call with Dean and Teresa and I, and MP Allison is explaining really why this can't happen, why we can't have this inquiry. 2:48 And so I stopped him and I just asked, well, will you go and pray about it? 2:54 Because the real issue isn't why we can't do this. 2:59 The real issue is this, are we supposed to be doing this? 3:03 Is this what we're supposed to be doing? 3:06 And so Teresa and I thought that it was finished, that there was going to be no inquiry. 3:12 And then about 10 days later, we're coming, driving back to Alberta from BC and Dean contacts us and says, no, I, 3:21 I think I'm supposed to do this regardless of the cost. 3:25 You see, when you make a decision like this, you don't know what will follow. 3:30 How is his caucus going to respond? 3:32 Is he going to be kicked out of the party? 3:33 It was very reasonable for him to assume that the mainstream media would try to make him look like a monkey. 3:41 And even a year or two ago, that would have happened and it would have succeeded. 3:46 And then Teresa and I had to pray for a week and we had to meet with 3:51 Dean's wife too, she had to be on board. 3:54 And the four of us met a week later and just decided, no, we're supposed to do this. 3:59 Now, this is probably around May 7th, May 8th. 4:04 And we had to do this before Parliament returned or we wouldn't get a committee room. 4:10 And then you kind of got to back up. 4:13 So, okay, so we're this we. 4:16 And well, okay, you got to have a couple of press conferences. 4:18 People have to learn you exist. 4:20 even to apply. 4:21 And then you got to organize. 4:24 So we picked June 4th to announce at a press conference in Parliament Hill. 4:31 So less than a month, we had to start organizing volunteers. 4:35 We had to create a legal structure to collect and disperse funds. 4:40 We had to create a website. 4:42 I think the French website was probably finished about 4 a.m. the morning we held the press conference. 4:49 And we hold a press conference, and we don't know how the world's going to react. 4:53 But it absolutely resonated every step of the way God's gone before us in this. 4:58 Dean made a couple of posts after the press conference on Facebook, and at 24 hours had over a million views. 5:07 And it's just skyrocketed with every press conference. 5:11 This just started to resonate. 5:13 And I don't know where we are now, but I mean, I was told like we were seventh in the world, I think. 5:19 trending globally a couple of days ago. 5:22 Like it's just been absolutely amazing. 5:25 And I'll say without meaningful mainstream media coverage, because there has been some, even if it's been negative. 5:34 Some has been positive and some has been negative. 5:37 But for the first time, the issue of COVID-19 vaccine entry has been raised. 5:44 And so I'd just like to acknowledge the person first. 5:48 Thank my Lord. 5:49 that this happened because I fully believe that what we've all experienced today and yesterday and the day before and the day before is his presence. 5:59 I'd like to thank my wife, Teresa, who's the main organizer. 6:04 She's the only person in the world I know that could pull this off in such short time. 6:11 I'm in front of the camera. 6:12 I mean, obviously, I work hard. 6:14 to interview witnesses and prep them and help with the organization, but I'm a small part compared to her. 6:22 There are a large number of volunteers and I don't have time to thank them all, but some that just came to mind this morning when I was quickly trying to decide what to say. 6:34 And so if I miss you on this list, if you, why did you miss me? 6:38 I'm sorry, it's just, you know, 6:41 I just jotted this down this morning. 6:43 So I'd like to thank Rita and Susan, the two volunteers that sorted all the witnesses and who often at meetings, one of them would just weep the whole meeting. 6:56 You learn not to ask how you're doing because then the rest of the meeting, it'd just be weeping. 7:02 And the reason is, is we've experienced it here. 7:05 We've seen these people speak and we've all wept. 7:10 Can you imagine going through 1,400 of these stories? 7:15 I think that they have a long journey ahead of them. 7:22 Eric and Jason, Bonnie, David, Sherry, Miriam, Tracy, our Ottawa volunteer, Christine, 7:35 And Peter, those are the ones that came to mind. 7:38 I know there's more, and forgive me for missing you. 7:42 This is September 11th. 7:45 It's kind of interesting because it's a day, you know, back the original September 11th. 7:51 Most of us remember where we were. 7:54 I was eating breakfast at the Overlander Hotel in Williams Lake, British Columbia, a rough little town in northern BC, because I had court that morning. 8:07 And the waitress comes up to me and hands me a phone. 8:11 And the person on the other end of the phone said, you have to get to a TV right now. 8:16 So I go up and I watch the plane flying to the second tower. 8:23 And I think the first tower fell before I had to go to court. 8:26 And as I'm watching this, I knew that my world had changed. 8:35 I didn't know how it had changed, but I just had this awareness that things are now different going forward, that they're no longer the same. 8:45 And what I came to experience from that day forward was the public being managed in a new way with fear. 8:54 It had been a weapon against us for a long time, but it went up a few degrees. 9:02 the dial got turned up, the fear dial got turned up. 9:05 And since then, I've watched my country and the United States and the rest of the world being managed with fear. 9:14 Here we are quarter of a century later, it's hard to believe, isn't it? 9:20 25 years later, that we're sitting here after four days of the Allison inquiry, and again, 9:31 I feel like my world has changed. 9:35 I feel that something's changed here over this last four days. 9:39 And what I think has changed is, is that the public is starting to reject being managed by fear. 9:48 It's okay for us to talk. 9:51 That it's okay for us to cast off this fear and division. 9:56 I really feel that God has done something here. 10:00 we have forgotten that we are storytellers every single one of us it's the condition of being human we have this personal experience and we have to share our lives with others you know it's why we have friendships remember when you're teenagers and you those close friendships and all you just wanted to do is hang out and talk you know and 10:28 We just want to be connected to other people. 10:31 We want to share our stories. 10:34 And there's really nothing more cruel and nothing more hateful than excluding people so that they cannot share their stories with us. 10:46 Which is what we've done. 10:50 And you know, we are a nation of storytellers. 10:54 We used to be so exceptionally 10:57 friendly and helpful as I was just very quickly, I was being told what to share. 11:05 I became mindful of my maternal great grandparents, like both my father's side came from Ireland and homesteaded in Saskatchewan, sod house, the whole thing. 11:18 And same on my mother's side, came from Austrian-Hungarian Empire, they're Ukrainians. 11:26 And in Saskatchewan, there's this teeny, I can't even call it a town anymore, called Crider, which is just a combination of a part of two names. 11:37 But my great-grandfather was the DOR in Crider. 11:41 He was Theodore Lusick. 11:45 And back then, we had community and we had family. 11:50 You know, your barn burned down? 11:52 It really wasn't a worry because... 11:54 You know, three weeks later, the community will have gotten together and gotten the lumber and spent all day Saturday and Sunday building your barn. 12:06 And we shared stories and we took care of each other. 12:11 And, you know, I think it was Dr. McCullough that was talking about, I mean, part of the problem is the vaccine injured have to start taking responsibility for themselves. 12:25 But I think, and that's what we're doing here, is MP Allison has gotten the citizens together to organize a hearing themselves. 12:37 And some people say, well, why didn't government do it? 12:40 Would you really trust government to do it? 12:43 And it then kind of begs the question, why should government do it? 12:46 Why shouldn't citizens take the lead? 12:50 Why shouldn't, so why shouldn't citizens take the lead? 12:56 Why shouldn't we be responsible for ourselves? 12:59 Why should we trust public health authorities? 13:02 Why shouldn't we insist on informed consent? 13:06 If we're going to make sure that we are a nation of storytellers again, it's going to fall on our shoulders. 13:19 Michael McNair. 13:23 touched me when he spoke on day two. 13:26 For those of you who weren't here, he's former Armed Forces, Army. 13:33 And he was sharing his journey with us. 13:36 And you know, if you had a transcript, you didn't see his video and you had a transcript, you would see him telling a story with words that were coherent and an accurate report of his journey. 13:52 And you would miss his entire testimony because it wasn't what he said. 13:59 It was how he said it. 14:03 He was tense. 14:05 He was loud. 14:07 It was almost like he was gritting his teeth and having to force the words out. 14:12 And it was one of the most precious testimonies and experiences I've ever had the honor of being a part of. 14:21 Because we all saw moral injury. 14:26 We saw it. 14:26 We felt it. 14:27 We breathed it. 14:29 We experienced it. 14:32 But you know what he said. 14:34 Loudly. 14:36 And through his teeth. 14:40 Is we are all in this together. 14:42 Do you remember him yelling that? 14:45 We are all in this together. Speaker 2
14:49 So let us all be in this together. Speaker 1
14:56 We're the ones that change the world. 14:59 We're the ones that make a difference. 15:01 A small group of people, these podcasters along the wall, this small number of podcasters have set the world on fire over the last four days. 15:11 How is it possible that in this small committee room, we became the seventh largest trending thing on the internet in the world? 15:22 because we got together and these brave witnesses took the stand at great personal and mental cost and some financial cost to be here so that we could once again be a nation of storytellers. 15:42 And that's what the Allison Inquiry was always meant to be from the beginning, just listening. Speaker 2
15:52 And so my closing words are, let's listen. 16:06 Thank you, Sean. Speaker 3
16:09 I do want to thank a few people before I end this with closing remarks. 16:15 We have a great group of people on the Hill that work behind the scenes normally. 16:20 That was volunteers here. 16:22 And I'll thank the volunteers in a second. 16:23 But we still have interpreters that were here all week. 16:26 Thank you so much. 16:28 They do a great job. 16:30 And they've been here, you know, from 830 to 5 every day. 16:34 And thank you very much. 16:36 I do want to thank all the people here in the room and those that are listening at home. Speaker 1
16:43 I forgot to thank MP Dean Ellison. Speaker 1
17:02 He has such love for people, and he truly just wanted to listen. 17:08 And he didn't know where this would go. 17:10 He didn't know that everyone would get behind him and defend him online and all of this. 17:16 But he just had the heart to listen, and I thank you, Dean. Speaker 3
17:21 So now I have to thank you. 17:22 No, I'm just teasing. 17:22 I was going to thank him anyways, okay? 17:23 It was in my notes. 17:25 You know, so listen, I do thank everyone in the room and, you know, the witnesses that took great pain. 17:30 Like I said, I can't say it enough. 17:32 You know, part of my job is to listen to people. 17:36 That's what I do in my office. 17:38 I listen to, you know, 10 or 12 people, whoever comes in, or they get a half an hour, and they tell me their stories. 17:44 And every one of their stories to that person is the most important story that they could be. 17:49 So if I can listen to people's stories privately, why can't we listen to people's stories publicly, right? 17:56 So that is really what this is about. 18:00 So to the witnesses, thank you. 18:03 Thank you for your stories. 18:04 To the expert witnesses for helping us, you know, give a little context, right? 18:08 We talked about this. 18:09 I said we have to have a little context of what's going on because if we don't have any context, then people won't know why people are hurt. 18:18 why they're injured. 18:20 And so to the witnesses, to the expert witnesses, thank you. 18:24 To the MPs that took time to come out, you know, this, this schedule was really around Sean and mine schedule, right? 18:31 I mean, we picked a date that would work based on the fact that I got caucus next week in BC. 18:36 We're going back to parliament the week after we can't get a room more than likely. 18:40 We won't be able to get a room because it would be kid meetings back in these rooms in just two or three short weeks. 18:46 So I do want to, I do want to, 18:48 Mention that I'm grateful for the MPs that have come out. 18:51 I had a number of my colleagues reach out to me and say, Dean, we are so grateful for what you're doing. 18:56 We just can't make it. 18:57 Our schedules are jammed. 18:58 Like I said, everyone in Parliament, I tell people this all the time. 19:02 There's 343 members of Parliament. 19:04 There are 25 different committees. 19:06 Everyone's got a special something they work on. 19:10 And so, you know, why can't my special something be you guys? 19:14 Like, why could not that be the case? 19:16 And so that was really sort of the genesis behind having that conversation. 19:21 So I need to thank my wife, who's been very supportive. 19:25 She's been here helping out this week. 19:27 I want to thank Phil for my office. 19:28 Phil has helped coordinate everything from the parliamentary back end of stuff. 19:34 So I need to thank all those people. 19:36 So I do want to say a few words just as we close, though. 19:40 I really feel like the silence has been broken, right? 19:43 We wanted to give people permission to speak publicly. 19:47 And the only way we can do that is by starting to speak publicly. 19:52 I want to thank the independent media afterwards, but it's a large part of these stories. 19:57 All right. 19:58 So mainstream is not telling our stories. 19:59 Guess what? 20:00 As I look around the room, there isn't one independent media that hasn't shared people's stories. 20:06 Thank you. 20:07 Thank you for what you do, because how else do we get it out? 20:10 We didn't get it out any other way. 20:12 And so I really believe that we can't go back to the way that things have been the last five years. 20:17 We can't go back to people suffering in silence because they're afraid or they won't be believed. 20:22 I think we gave enough context whether people listened to it or not today over the last four days to indicate why people shouldn't have to suffer in silence and how we've gotten to this place. 20:34 And Sean talked about it like that again. 20:36 But, you know, we should not accept the fact when people want to ridicule or dismiss you or say it's all in your head. 20:42 I mean, how many times do we hear witnesses say they say it's in my head? 20:46 Oh, man, I don't want to hear that. 20:48 That's very offensive to hear. 20:52 So that's what we've done, right? 20:52 We've done over the last four days, we've listened to people. 20:55 We've heard how people's health has changed dramatically and forever. 21:00 We've heard about the families and the support that they offer and how their families have been changed forever. 21:05 We've talked about, you know, people searching for answers. 21:08 We heard that many times, right? 21:10 Like I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. 21:12 So, you know, no matter what people think about COVID or the vaccines or public policy, compassion, 21:20 Should never be controversial, right? 21:23 That should never be controversial. 21:24 So when some doctor online starts chirping us, we can go back hard and say, like, you're not going to chirp us because we're talking about people and how they feel. 21:35 We're not talking about anything other than the fact that these individuals have been hurt and been injured. 21:41 And guess what? 21:42 It's the government that said you've been injured. 21:44 They've got a program. 21:48 we heard over the last four days, but we knew that coming into this. 21:51 So where do we go from here? 21:54 First of all, I think we've got to keep talking. 21:56 We have shattered the ceiling of silence, and so we need to encourage more, not private, hey, let's do private conversations. 22:04 We've got to encourage more public discussion, right? 22:08 We can't shy away from that. 22:09 We can't back that. 22:11 And, you know, when our colleagues are mocked online or they're dismissed or unfairly characterized, 22:17 I expect everybody to run to their defense and to support them. 22:21 When an MP does something good, I expect people to say, thank you, online, whatever, because sometimes it takes a little bit of a little bit of I don't even say guts. 22:32 When people don't understand, sometimes it's hard to know how to interact. 22:36 When you think about going to a funeral of a loved one that's passed and you don't know what to say and you don't know if you should be there and you don't know if they'll accept you for being. 22:44 That's kind of like what this is for people that don't understand the community. 22:48 So when people reach out, we need to encourage them. 22:51 We need to thank them. 22:52 It also means asking questions. 22:55 We can't stop asking questions. 22:56 That was said by almost every expert witness. 22:58 We have got to keep asking questions. 23:00 We've got to ask why. 23:01 We've got to ask how. 23:02 We've got to figure out where the evidence is, and we've got to keep doing that. 23:06 And we also need to encourage legislators to step up, right? 23:10 And so I think we need to continue to advocate on behalf of Canadians who are sick and injured and vulnerable, right? 23:17 And if we can do that for every other category, cancer, dementia, diabetes, we sure as heck can do that for those that are vaccine injured, right? 23:28 I think a lot of it is just people are ignorant. 23:30 I don't mean ignorant rude. 23:31 I mean ignorant they just don't understand what's happened. 23:34 And if you spend any time talking to you, as I have over the years, not this many at this amount of time, but you would understand what it is. 23:44 I also believe that it shouldn't – 23:46 be politically inconvenient to people, right? 23:48 So we need to challenge governments to be more accountable. 23:52 We need to keep pushing for better access to care. 23:55 We need to push for resources. 23:57 Dr. McCullough, other doctors said it today, we got to encourage more resources for that dialogue and treatment. 24:03 We need transparent surveillance of reporting of adverse events. 24:07 Man, transparency and accountability are fundamental. 24:11 There's no reason why citizens cannot ask that of government. 24:16 regularly, consistently all the time. 24:19 And I think that every Canadian has the right to know what's the evidence, what's the limitations of the evidence, what's changed as new evidence has merged. 24:29 Dr. McCullough talked about today of studies that he did years ago or what he knew years ago and new evidence has come out to support that. 24:37 And because we're talking about 2019 or 2020 evidence, 24:42 That's not acceptable. 24:45 And that's where we need to come in in terms of education and letting people know where they're at. 24:49 So I don't think, you know, people should ever think that questions are dangerous. 24:53 I think they should just be realized that it's, you know, part of this democratic process that we're all a part of. 24:59 We should be able to ask difficult questions to help Canada. 25:02 How is it funded? 25:03 We heard some conversations today that big pharma's involved. 25:06 How are decisions made? 25:08 What safeguards exist against conflicts of interest? 25:11 How do adverse events are investigated? 25:13 Whether Canadians have sufficient access to the underlying evidence to make regulatory decisions? 25:19 These are all questions that were raised during this inquiry. 25:22 So governments, and I think we need to always have that underlying discussion around censorship. 25:29 We must continue to resist censorship 25:31 and attempts to determine which voices of Canadians were permitted to hear, right? 25:36 Governments should never decide which journalists are legitimate based on whether the reporting is convenient to those in power. 25:45 And just in the last day, we're talking about a registry, right? 25:49 You guys all read that stuff. 25:50 Come on, give me a break. 25:52 You know, give me a break. 25:54 And that's why I do want to recognize independent journalists again and media organizations who are willing to listen and ask questions 26:01 and give people an opportunity to tell their stories. 26:03 You know, we were just doing some back of the napkin ideas and more analysis will happen in the coming days. 26:12 Cause that's how we're gonna start to tell part of our story. 26:14 You know, I've been looking at trying to keep track on X in terms of the post and new categories pop in and they pop out. 26:22 And then we were looking at one from two days ago. 26:24 The most I can, best I can tell there's probably been over 300,000 posts 26:29 Think about that. 26:30 Over 300,000 posts that has happened just in the last four days on X. 26:36 That doesn't include, that's not views. 26:39 That's just posts. 26:39 Think about that. 26:40 And that is because of people in the room. 26:42 That is because of people telling their stories. 26:44 That is because of people that aren't here that are telling the stories as well. 26:48 And I think that's pretty impressive. 26:50 We just talked about some of the numbers as well, as you look at that. 26:54 And those numbers don't include Facebook, 26:57 Instagram, or any kind of the streaming. 26:58 We're looking at that. 26:59 There's a possibility that we've got 10 to 12 million views through streaming just these few days. 27:06 And then on Facebook, Instagram, and stuff like that. 27:09 I can tell you from my own social media, just in the last week, we got almost 9 million views on Facebook and Instagram and X and those kinds of things. 27:18 We got to keep pushing that out. 27:20 We have got to be able to share, clip, post, 27:26 Tell people and tell people to tell people, right? 27:30 This is what we got to do. 27:31 We got to share this information because sometimes it's not ignorance. 27:34 Once again, sometimes it's a lack of knowledge. 27:37 And we are the educators in the room. 27:39 It is your lived experience. 27:40 It's your life experience. 27:42 And do not let them take that away from you that you should not be allowed to share it. 27:47 It is your experience and people need to understand. 27:50 And so they're not afraid. 27:51 And so as we look at that, and we'll do a better debrief on the numbers. 27:56 As I look at that, you know, that's somewhere over 20 million views. 27:59 Think about that. 28:00 First press conference, maybe we had a million plus views just on Facebook. 28:04 I'm not talking about streaming. 28:05 I'm not talking all this. 28:07 This is an awareness tool, right? 28:08 But today it could be north of 20 million. 28:12 That's pretty good, ladies and gentlemen. 28:14 It's a very, very good job. 28:15 And I want to give a round of applause for the independent media in the room, guys. 28:19 Yes, absolutely. 28:26 So why can't we drive that? 28:28 Why can't we drive that to 20, 50 to 100 million views, right? 28:32 As we continue to reshare people's stories. 28:35 You know, a free society requires journalists to ask uncomfortable questions. 28:39 That's what I see happening. 28:41 But responsibility does not rest with the politicians or doctors or journalists. 28:46 It rests with the citizens as well. 28:48 So I think now more than ever, Canadians need to hear and help people tell their stories. 28:53 So listen to them. 28:55 and share their experiences. 28:57 Ask questions, demand evidence, and insist that our institutions treat every Canadian with dignity. 29:02 This inquiry was never intended to be the final word. 29:06 It was intended to begin a conversation that should have begun years ago. 29:12 And some of you told me that. 29:14 We should have started this ages ago. 29:16 But there still needs to be a serious examination of how the pandemic was handled. 29:20 what governments got right, what they got wrong, what evidence decisions were based upon, what harms occurred, and what must be done differently in the future. 29:28 This examination should not be about revenge. 29:31 It should be about accountability, learning, and ensuring that mistakes are not repeated. 29:37 Most importantly, we need to continue talking about these experiences because silence does not help people find answers. 29:46 Conversations lead to questions. 29:48 Questions lead to investigation. 29:51 And investigation leads to evidence. 29:55 And evidence can lead to better treatment, better policy, and hopefully help for people who desperately need it. 30:03 To everyone who testified during this inquiry, thank you for your courage. 30:08 To everyone who applied to testify, but to whom we could not hear you during these four days, your story is 30:16 still matters. 30:17 To the families who stood beside someone who is suffering, thank you. 30:22 And to the Canadians watching who have been afraid to speak about what happened to them, you have permission to speak. 30:30 The silence has been broken. 30:32 Our responsibility now is to make sure it never is imposed again. 30:37 This inquiry may be ending today, but our work is not. 30:41 We are not done. 30:43 There is more work to do. 30:44 There are more questions to ask. 30:47 There are more stories to hear. 30:49 And there are Canadians who still need our help. 30:52 So we're going to keep listening. 30:54 We're going to keep asking questions. 30:57 We'll keep seeking answers. 30:59 And we will keep standing with those who have asked for far too long simply to be heard.