Patricia Leidl arrived in Ottawa this week eager to tell a painful story about her reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine. After an uneventful first shot against the COVID virus, Leidl received a second dose of vaccine on June 10, 2021, just days before she was planning to head off to Vienna for a new job she couldn't wait to start. But seven days after that second vaccine, the Salt Spring Island, B.C. resident woke up in pain. Leidl got up and then collapsed. In the ensuing five years, Leidl told the Allison Inquiry into the effects of the COVID vaccines on Thursday, she hasn't stopped suffering. Her list of conditions and symptoms is lengthy, many of which she says suggest neurological damage and chronic inflammation. "My life is effectively destroyed," she [said]. Before offering her testimony to the MPs and senators, however, Leidl and dozens of others keen to share their stories of suffering and lost loved ones had to make their way past a lively protest assembled outside Ottawa's Wellington Building. Many believe that the COVID vaccines were part of a government plan to limit individual rights and gain further control. Howard Kwan says Canadians have bought into a massive coverup. As he protested this week, Kwan said that the federal government worked with the pharmaceutical industry and others to convince Canadians that everybody needed to get the shot. They've been trying to justify that effort and to hide the negative effects ever since.