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Nicole Maurier told me her daughter's doctor of 24 years denied her a medical exemption and advised her that the novel COVID-19 shots were "safe and effective." Seventeen months later, Abigail Maurier was dead.

Day two of the Allison Inquiry hardly left a dry eye in the room following Maurier’s emotional testimony. The inquiry is examining vaccine injuries across Canada and the collapse of the program that was supposed to compensate the people who paid the price for those injuries.

Her daughter, Abigail, had just graduated as a cardiac technologist and landed a job at the cardiology unit at Alberta Health Services. A few months later, her employer indiscriminately mandated two shots by October 15, 2021, something she had to comply with or she would lose the job she had worked so hard for.

Abigail asked for two medical exemptions — one from her employer and one from her family doctor. Both were denied.

"Mom, I just know in my heart that if I get these shots, something really bad will happen to me," she told her mother that June.

Not wanting to lose her dream job, Abigail went for her first Pfizer dose on September 15. She waited until literally the last possible day, October 15, to receive the second.

Working in cardiology, Abigail was seeing the early warning signs herself: young, healthy patients like a 30-year-old athlete who collapsed on a stress-test treadmill, showing up with cardiac issues nobody could explain.

When her own oncologist later looked at her case, he told Nicole: "I've never seen anything like this, especially in someone so young."

Seven months after her second dose, Abigail started feeling generally unwell. By December 2022 it was a racing heart and high blood pressure. By March 2023, which was 17 months post-injection, she was in the emergency room with a collapsed lung full of fluid and a tumour so large it was pushing her heart out of place. She was diagnosed with nut carcinoma, a cancer so rare it strikes roughly one in tens of millions of people. The tumour in her chest doubled in size in two weeks.

From diagnosis to death was a shocking six weeks timespan.

Her family doctor — the same one who told her the shots were safe — later wrote "nut carcinoma post COVID-19 vaccination" under adverse event on Abigail's federal Vaccine Injury Support Program medical assessment form.

That was July 2023, and Nicole has been fighting the Vaccine Injury Support Program — now rebranded the Impact Assessment Program — ever since.

They keep asking for more forms and documents, offering an online portal as a way to stay up to date, that she still cannot access.

"It's almost as though they're just burying you in paperwork to try to buy themselves time," she told me.

Abigail died May 2, 2023, following two rounds of chemo that Nicole says her body couldn't handle. Her organs began to fail one by one.

"That's ultimately how she left this world," Nicole said. "Suffering and in a lot of pain. And for what? For a virus that has a 99% survival rate?"

Nicole wants two things out of this inquiry: legal protection against employers who mandate medical products outside the terms of an employment contract, and accountability for the doctors' associations that she says pressured physicians into pushing the shots rather than protecting patients under their own oath to do no harm.

Abigail would have turned 28 the day after her mother testified. Instead, Nicole stood before the inquiry without her daughter, a young woman with so much potential, whose future was taken from her far too soon.