I don’t know if I will ever be able to trust the medical establishment again. After what they put us through and all the lies, it’s very difficult to move past all of it.
It’s especially difficult when the health institutions don’t seem to regret anything they have done and just keep doubling down on their absurdity.
Last month, the Sudbury Public Health Unit announced that they were hiring Dr. Mustafa Hirji as their new Medical Officer of Health at a likely salary of over $400,000 per year.
This, after the former Medical Officer of Health Penny Sutcliffe announced she was retiring after raking in millions during the pandemic (including $800,000 in 2021 alone) to lock us up.
Most people around here will remember that Sutcliffe and the Sudbury Health District implemented some of the strictest rules in the province and engaged in some of the most divisive language during the vaccine hysteria.
In December 2021, Sutcliffe implemented regional orders in Sudbury that went above the provincial ones at the time. She banned any unvaccinated person from entering any public establishment. In the same release ahead of Christmas 2021 that likely tore countless families apart, she told Sudburrians:
“it’s safest to only gather with individuals who are fully vaccinated”
For this, she was awarded with unprecedented remuneration and she will also get at least a full year of salary to end her career. In a release announcing her retirement last year, the Board of Health disclosed that Sutcliffe would be taking a “sabbatical” before officially retiring.
So how could the Sudbury Board of Health top Dr. Sutcliffe in 2024?
Dr. Mustafa Hirji
Introducing Dr. Mustafa Hirji. Many people who followed the COVID hysteria in 2020-2023 will have already known Hirji.
Hirji was the Acting Medical Officer of Health in Niagara Falls from 2018 to 2023. When that board finally got around to selecting their final candidate last year, they surprised most in the region by passing on the presumptive heir and went in another direction.
This was likely because Hirji was not fit for the job and he was so incredibly wrong on every aspect of the pandemic. He was an outlier, even among the outliers. Most Medical Officers of Health in the province were hysterical, holding on to lockdowns as long as possible. But Hirji went even further.
In 2020 when restaurants were finally allowed to start serving people, Hirji implemented regional orders that prevented many Niagara restaurants from opening.
When the Ministry of Education finally relaxed rules in schools to give our kids their lives back, Hirji doubled down. He kept strict isolation orders in place that kept kids out of school longer and forced kids in Niagara to wear masks longer than any other region. The province eventually stepped in and told him to leave the kids alone.
Then in 2022 when it was crystal clear that the vaccine was not stopping the spread and the Ontario government scrapped the divisive vaccine passport system, Hirji “strongly recommended that local businesses keep them”.
A month later, Hirji made the news again when he started his six month campaign to lobby the Ford government to re-implement mandatory masks. Everywhere…
Even as late as last summer/fall, Hirji was still posting absolutely incorrect commentary to induce fear in people on social media. In August he warned that the latest variant would be the worst one yet. In other tweets, he warns about schools reopening. In 2023…
And Dr. Hirji is not shy about sharing his political opinions either. On X he frequently criticizes politicians and takes positions on controversial political topics.
He advocates for higher minimum wages, more supervised drug consumption sites among the various Liberal agenda items he pushes while being paid by the taxpayers.
This is Sudbury’s new half-million dollar man. The doctor who got passed over by his former employer for Niagara’s top job will now try and impose his radical views in the North.
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So Sudbury politians are not looking out for the peoples best interest. This guy more or less got fired and our stupid idiot mayor hires this idiot. And 400.000 dollars is his salary this is insane.
He literally had to leave Niagara region because the people there were in strong opposition to the severe and illogical mandates he imposed. He was next in line to become the chief MO, but given the public outrage he generated the Ministry offered him a position, out of town . This man is a poster boy for all failed Liberal policies. He will be a complete and utter disaster for this area! Imagine being so brainwashed by Liberal talking points as to think that the opioid crisis in Sudbury and surrounding area can be alleviated by, ''.........de-criminalizing drugs and providing safe supply.'' As for the extravagant salaries of these people you should see the Globe and Mail Article, "$ 76 million paid to doctors who give the jab....'" Physicians who actually gave the jab were handsomely rewarded by Pfizer, also those who had the responsibility to enforce the jab made millions! See, 'Prescription Politics', 'More than two-thirds cashed a Pfizer check ....' Who says crime does not pay! It pays very well indeed!