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If day one of the Allison Inquiry opened the door, day two kicked it off the hinges.

I sat down with Conservative MP Dean Allison at the end of the day, and there was one word for what was just heard: carnage.

"I heard gaslit. I heard abandonment,” said MP Allison, reflecting on the relentless stories shared.

Vienna Demeduk described her 20-kilometre morning run cut short by a stroke that left her blind and unable to walk, alone in her condo, dragging herself across the floor toward help.

Nicole Maurier recounted the final hours of her daughter’s life — holding an oxygen mask against her face by hand, before watching her organs fail one by one after chemotherapy her weakened body couldn't handle.

One wheelchair bound victim, Jasmeet Grewal, now lives with two feeding pumps for twelve hours a day, unable to so much as swallow water.

Then there was James Freeland, standing in a hospital hallway, being told his 60-year-old mother — no medical history beyond type 2 diabetes, dead two days after her shot — had died of a "hard hit to the heart." No further explanation, no autopsy, but a rushed cremation that thwarted further scrutiny.

Biostatistician Dr. Jessica Rose brought the numbers to back up what the testimony was screaming. Her slides showed Canada's vaccine injury reporting rate is a fraction of the U.S. rate under VAERS — not, as officials claim, because Canadians weren't injured, but because Canada's reporting system is far more tightly controlled on both ends.

This lines up with what I reported back in early 2021, when Dr. Patrick Phillips — a rural Ontario emergency room physician — had all five of his vaccine injury reports denied by his local medical officer of health. That denial was only the first step in a maze of bureaucracy: a vaccine injury reporting system that is full of layers and gatekeepers.

Dr. Charles Hoffe shared the same sentiment in British Columbia, where physicians were threatened and intimate by their regulators for daring to speak on, let alone document, vaccine injury for fear of fueling “vaccine hesitancy.” He described filing report after report by registered mail, nine pages each, only to have every single one returned marked "coincidence,” without investigation.

Despite the weight of it all and only a small showing of MPs at the inquiry itself, Allison said the response from the Conservative Party of Canada has been entirely supportive, even as questions swirl online about the absence of Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre.

"I know Pierre has been a big supporter of this," Allison said. "His schedule is a lot busier than mine. I believe he'll find time to meet with people."

What struck him most, he said, wasn't the medical detail — it was the fear in every witness who sat down.

"Every single one that came today was saying, I'm nervous about talking about this publicly. I haven't talked about it in three or four years," Allison said. "We've got to make this part of the discussion. People are getting injured. They're not getting better. If we don't talk about it, there's no way we start getting them help."

Two days down, two to go.