Allison Inquiry | Dr. Gary Davidson | Day 4 September 11th, 2026

"Dr. Gary Davidson, an emergency physician for over 16 years and Chief of the Emergency Department at Red Deer Regional Hospital from 2016 to 2020, chaired the Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Response data review, which reported on January 24, 2025. He explains that it was a data review commissioned after the premier's 2022 letter, not a formal inquiry, so people could not be compelled to answer. It examined nine areas, including data governance, vaccines, therapeutics, masking and lockdowns, asking what data supported each decision.

Davidson says it found that data flowed in a circle from Health Canada, that only 8 of 109 requested decision-makers were interviewed, and that those who implemented directives said they had not read the primary research behind them. He says he was the primary author of the therapeutics chapter, describes Alberta's ivermectin directive as unsupported by the research it cited, and says he lost his professorship after prescribing it and sharing trial data with colleagues.

He presents two recommendations from the report: halting COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of safety and efficacy to patients, and ending them for healthy children and teenagers, as other countries have done. MPs ask how to restore trust in medicine and why Canada has not changed its position.

The full report is entered as an exhibit.

Recorded at the Allison Inquiry, Day 4, September 11th, 2026. The views and claims expressed are those of the speaker. For more information, including the full list of witnesses and experts, go to allisoninquiry.com.

0:00 Swearing in
0:21 Introduction and background
2:23 How the Alberta review came about
3:50 Mandate and scope of the review
5:47 The expert team
8:00 The report is a public exhibit
9:31 Lessons learned: how data flowed
10:42 Interviewing decision-makers
11:35 Directives implemented without reading the research
12:16 The therapeutics chapter and ivermectin
16:44 Losing his professorship
18:37 Vaccine conclusions and recommendations
20:24 Informed consent and pregnancy trial data
23:22 Recommendation on healthy children and teenagers
25:50 MP questions
26:43 Restoring trust in medicine
29:04 Why Canada has not changed its position
31:00 Closing"