Hastings Lennox Addington MP Derek Sloan calls for Dr. Tam to be fired, questions if she’s working for China

Adam Prudhomme
Editor

Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP and Conservative leadership candidate Derek Sloan took aim at Dr. Theresa Tam’s handling of COVID-19 on Wednesday, questioning whether she is working for China or Canada.

The local MP posted a video to his official Twitter account calling for Canada’s chief public health officer to be fired. 

“I don’t know about you, but I have been disgusted by the way Justin Trudeau and his team has handled the Coronavirus pandemic,” Sloan says in his video address. “For one, they were late for almost every count to institute travel bans, to recommend wearing masks. Initially talking about the virus and suggesting that it was from China was considered racist. One of the issues with Justin Trudeau’s handling of this situation has been his reliance on the advice from Dr. Theresa Tam. Theresa Tam, we sent an email out today asking does she work for Canada or for China?.”

Sloan went on to suggest Tam has been relying on ‘misinformation’ from the World Health Organization.

“We know for a fact that China covered up many details concerning the Coronavirus outbreak,” said Sloan. “There’s been a study that was done in England that if China had come out with the truth, we could have potentially avoided up to 90 per cent of the cases that we have today. The World Health Organization parroted Chinese misinformation coming out of the Communist Party of China.”

“Teresa Tam followed the World Health Organization every step of the way,” Sloan continued. “She accused Canadians who were concerned about this virus initially for being racist. She also suggested that travel bans were unnecessary and as late as Jan. 14 she suggested that human to human of the Coronavirus was not happening when very credible evidence suggested it was.”

Sloan went on to say the Communist Party of China placed Tedros Adhanom, an Ethiopian microbiologist, as head of WHO. Sloan says Adhanom, the first non-physician to be head of WHO, has been accused of covering cholera outbreaks in his native country.  

In another video on his Twitter account posted Wednesday, Sloan announced he was adding his signature to an open letter put out by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute which likens the Chinese Communist Party government’s alleged cover-up of COVID-19 as ‘China’s Chernobyl moment’.

“Will anybody stand up to Communist China?,” Sloan asks in the video. “Certainly not Justin Trudeau. Donald Trump might. Some other leaders may. But certainly not the Canada Liberals who bend over backwards to appease China.”

MPs from other parties have accused Sloan’s comments as being ‘vile’ and ‘race baiting’.

Outgoing Conservative leader Andrew Scheer refused to comment, saying he’d let the members of the party decide, referencing the upcoming leadership vote to replace him.

In his daily address, when asked about Sloan’s comments, Trudeau said there was no place in Canada for those kinds of comments.

“Canada has succeeded because of our diversity — it is one of our greatest strengths,” the PM said. “The millions of Canadians of all different backgrounds who are working together — many, many of them on the frontlines to help their fellow Canadians — deserve better than this from all of us. We need to continue in our resolve to be an open, welcoming, respectful country, and I think all Canadians expect that of every politician.”