Vancouver resident Justin Forsman pens an open letter to the Vancouver mayor and members of the City Council

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An Open Letter from Justin Forsman

To Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, members of the Vancouver City Council, and public officials:

I write to you not from a place of emotion, but from unwavering moral conviction — and from years of watching this city be led down a dangerous and negligent path.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, you didn’t lead — you followed. With reckless abandonment, you became mouthpieces for Big Pharma, pushing experimental injections on the public with no room for debate, no transparency, and no willingness to even entertain emerging concerns. Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, Councilmembers Ty Stober, Bart Hansen, and others in power echoed federal talking points without question, turning their backs on concerned residents and silencing those of us who dared to raise alarms.

I’ve been addressing this council since 2014, raising red flags and calling out dangerous trends — and I’ve been proven right time and time again. I spoke out early and often. I provided evidence. I stood in the gap when no one else would. And for that, I was mocked, dismissed, and labeled “crazy.” But I was right. And now, some of the very people you swore to protect are suffering.

Heart issues. Cancers. Autoimmune disorders. Sudden deaths. Someone close to me developed dementia after repeated boosters. I know of others who died shortly after receiving the shots. This isn’t speculation — these are lived realities, and you’ve done nothing to address them.

Meanwhile, you continue to ignore the fluoridation of our water supply — a toxic policy backed by outdated science that unnecessarily causes harm to our residents. You stay silent about the mass die-offs of bees and insects, the degradation of our ecosystem, as a result of geoengineering programs, and how this impacts our skies and soil, and how this is a large cause of the bioaccumulation of microplastics in our environment. You blindly back fake climate change policies that punish the public while protecting corporate polluters.

And as if that weren’t enough, this council went so far as to issue an open letter in support of Ukraine — with prior no public comment, no prior community input, and no acknowledgment of the risk this blind alignment poses to world stability. You pushed us further into a potential nuclear conflict simply because it aligned with the mainstream narrative. It was reckless, it was performative, and it was a betrayal of the trust of this city’s residents.

You have no problem parroting virtue signals, but you refuse to question the real environmental and health threats around us. You talk about inclusion and diversity, yet there’s none where it counts — in opinion, in thought, in lived experience. What we need is not more hollow DEI campaigns or political tokenism. We need actual diversity of voice — people with the courage to challenge centralized power and groupthink, regardless of race or party.

We must not re-elect Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle. We must vote out people’s like Kim Harless, Diana Perez, Eric Paulsen, Sarah Fox, Ty Stober, Bart Hansen, and every career politician who has blindly upheld failed narratives. We need a revolution of change — but not the empty, establishment kind. We need leaders who protect the people, who stand up for our environment, animals, and food systems, and who refuse to sell out to corporate and political agendas.

It’s time for those who failed us to feel the shame they’ve long ignored. Let them face early retirement by the people’s hand. Let a new generation of honest, unafraid, and awakened leadership rise in their place.

This is not about party lines — this is about life, liberty, and truth.

To the people of Vancouver: We need strong, fierce citizens to step up and challenge the establishment. If you have the courage to lead, to speak truth, and to fight for the people — now is the time to file and run in the upcoming election. It’s time to put the people first, protect our communities, and reclaim our future from those who have failed us. We have the power to take back our city and demand the leadership we deserve.

Justin Forsman
Vancouver

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