Allison Inquiry | Catherine Christensen | Day 1 September 8th, 2026

Catherine Christensen is a barrister and solicitor and the principal of Valour Law in St. Albert, Alberta. Her practice is devoted almost exclusively to representing Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans before the Veterans Review and Appeal Board, the Federal Court and the Military Police Complaints Commission. She testifies on behalf of serving members who cannot speak for themselves without risking court-martial, career damage or disciplinary action. Christensen contrasts the low COVID-19 mortality in the force with the injuries she reports after the October 2021 mandate, when a largely young, male population received almost exclusively Moderna while Nordic countries were restricting it for the same age group. She questions Department of National Defence figures of 346 reported adverse events from about 241,000 doses, and describes clients with serious cardiac injury, clotting, neurological symptoms, reproductive disruption, digestive illness, autoimmune conditions and fatigue syndromes.

She presents three cases: an officer with myocarditis after his first Pfizer dose who was ordered to take the second and is now being released for mental health; a non-commissioned officer with blood clots throughout his lungs after being ordered to take a second Moderna dose; and a top CAF athlete who barely survived open heart surgery. She also describes a soldier who died of cardiac death whose widow was treated as a murder suspect and then denied his medical file. Christensen details difficulty obtaining the CF-98 form, releases recorded as mental health or generic medical unfitness, delayed or limited boards of inquiry, and closed doors at both the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada, including the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program and its three-year window. She asks the Inquiry to examine the gap between official adverse event counts and member experience, whether the electronic health record was used to detect safety signals, obstruction of estate access to medical records, and access to compensation for members injured under the mandate.

Recorded at the Allison Inquiry, Day 1, September 8th, 2026. For more information, including the full list of witnesses and experts, go to allisoninquiry.com.

0:00 Introduction and swearing in
3:23 Why serving members cannot testify
4:34 CAF medical records and the healthy-soldier baseline
6:25 Myocarditis signals and the CAF mandate
7:33 Official numbers versus what clients report
9:27 Three case patterns
12:39 Boards of inquiry and refused medical files
15:04 Compensation and Veterans Affairs
16:56 Four requests to the Inquiry