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In the case of Stephen Lewis, he was Ontario leader of the NDP, a social democratic party whose policies centred, and still ostensibly centre, basic human rights, equality, public health care, union and labour rights. As such they are the most in favour of market regulation of any of the three main political parties in Canada and the least allied with big business.

Lewis worked in Africa with the UN as well as a number of NGOs, including his own foundation, decades ago, starting at a time when AIDS first emerged there as a devastating public health crisis. Of course his job there dovetailed with some of Bill Gates' interests at the time but Lewis was very outspoken against the billionaire class and Gates specifically. He certainly doesn't sound like anyone who has ever been in Bill Gates' pocket. https://aidsfreeworld.org/commentary/2019/11/14/week-in-review-242

His foundation supported grassroots initiatives focusing on helping children and women living with HIV (women are at least twice as likely to be infected with AIDS in many places in Africa). I searched their website for any reference to vaccines and found nothing, zero. I found initiatives to provide food, housing, and education, all grounded and run through local community organizations with AIDS patients figuring largely in those in control of the funds. The only specifically preventative measures were in the domains of protecting women from sexual violence and the dangers of unprotected sex.

The purposes of the foundation, found in their financial statements, are:

1. To relieve the pain and suffering of the women and children of Africa affected by HIV and AIDS and related illnesses;

2. To provide financial assistance to children in Africa orphaned by HIV and AIDS and related illnesses so as to improve their quality of life;

3. To provide financial and other support to organizations providing assistance to persons with HIV and AIDS;

4. To solicit, receive, acquire and hold donations, gifts and legacies for the purposes of the Foundation;

5. To advance education in Canada regarding the community development challenges posed by AIDS in Africa by holding public fora, workshops and seminars to discuss these challenges.

Stephen Lewis has been outspoken for decades in support of generic drugs and equitable access, neither of which has made him any friends in Big Pharma and which directly undercut their ability to make huge profits. As well, his work with the WHO was as an advisor in a board looking at the non-medical social determinants of health, things like education, nutrition, and women's rights, not medical treatment and not vaccines.

Do you know how many people have worked for the UN? Are all of them now guilty of these accusations you are levelling at Stephen Lewis? You are talking about an 86 year old man who was dealing with his second journey with stomach cancer in 2020/21, when you are accusing him of profiting off of his part in the covid vaccines. You have fabricated this story about him personally profiting off of the vaccine industry. This is just flimsy guilt by association nonsense.

I hope you can understand why I want you to reconsider this. I am in your camp on the vaccine mandate issue. I'm very, very concerned about our medical and health freedom and the way so many of our governments and their embedded bureaucracies have truly been bought by the corporate machine, but the more people like you, who are speaking out about the vaccines, are also speaking nonsense about a whole lot of other things, the more crazy and irrational the rest of us look and the more likely all of us who care about this issue will continue to be dismissed as conspiracy theorists and wackos. Please reconsider this really terrible choice you are making here and retract these baseless allegations, which are not just inaccurate, they are actually ridiculous. Seeing how almost every single one of your supporters here are just taking you at your word, is really, really disturbing. You are not in any way living up to your own self-proclaimed journalistic standards.

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