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Five years after Canadians were told the science was settled, many are still living with the fallout: injuries dismissed, questions treated as conspiracy, and a health system reluctant to say the quiet part out loud.

Although informed consent was supposed to be the cornerstone of ethical medicine, during the last health crisis, it often was not.

This November, a small organizing group called Think Canada is trying to do what Ottawa still will not: put doctors, researchers, and ordinary people in the same room and let them talk. The event, Health Under Fire, will run Friday evening, November 13, and all day Saturday, November 14, in the eastern Toronto area.

Capacity is limited to 400, and organizer Rebecca Mello says she simply started as someone who was fined during COVID, began asking uncomfortable questions, and watched how hard it was to host those questions in Canada.

Last year the group held its first conference on liberty of conscience. This year’s theme is sharper. “I think that our health is under attack, and people that are unhealthy and that are sick are easier to control,” Mello said.

Physical health, she argued, cannot be separated from emotional, mental, and spiritual health. “All these things work together for us to thrive… And I believe that all of those aspects of health are under attack.”

The conference is not a closed session for physicians, but rather open to anyone who values the conversation, including people looking for practical ways to care for themselves and their children after the pandemic. The main draw is the speaker list, followed by a Q&A so the audience is not left listening in silence.

Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough will discuss spike protein protocols and what the data show about negative effects of vaccination. Gastroenterologist Dr. Sabine Hazan will speak on the gut microbiome, vaccination, reported increases in autism rates, and practical steps for adults and children. Dr. Conrad Vine, who spoke at last year’s event, returns to address whole-person health, including spiritual health, and what the pandemic should teach about health preparedness.

The United States has held rooms like this for years, from Senator Ron Johnson’s hearings on hospital protocols and vaccine safety signals to the House Coronavirus Panel’s work on origins and a July 2026 Senate hearing in which Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. Canada has not matched that scope; though the recent Alison inquiry in Ottawa is a notable exception, it still falls far short of what America has done.

Canadian speakers have been willing to come to the event, but the friction Mello said, is in staging the event. From online pushback, venue pressure, and the practical difficulty of booking a room for this kind of conversation, there’s still some venue uncertainty.

Mello says that the demand for the event outweighs the naysaying, and it’s coming mainly from ordinary people who still want information the establishment leaves out of the conversation.

Success, for her, is not only a full room; it’s people leaving with at least one real relationship outside a screen. “We need to be connecting with community in real life.”

Registration is required. Tickets are available at thinkcanada.net, and include the event and parking. Whether the event proceeds without a venue change is almost beside the point.

If Canadians still cannot ask health professionals about total well-being without friction, then health remains under fire. The debate over whether the conversation can happen at all says enough about the state of health discourse in 2026.