Students Who Say They Were Harmed by Canada’s COVID-19 Policies Testify at Independent Inquiry

People line up outside the University of Toronto Mississauga campus's COVID-19 vaccination clinic, in Mississauga, Ontario, on May 6, 2021. Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press

TORONTO—University student Kayla Bishop was forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to continue her studies but suffered from heart damage following the shot, she told a citizens-based public hearing that invites Canadians who were adversely affected by COVID-19 measures to tell their stories.

Bishop, a student at Toronto Metropolitan University, was one of four university students who testified on the first day of A Citizens’ Hearing, an independent inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response hosted by the Canadian COVID Care Alliance from June 22 to June 24.