Health committee  Again, I don't have the tools to determine exactly how widespread it is. We've asked the school board to do this. They can send a note and a health survey home with every child, and in about five days, they would find out how widespread this problem is. They've refused to do that.

Health committee  Some of them were re-elected. Some of them were not re-elected. In many cases, nobody runs against them—or at least in some cases.

Health committee  It was an issue, but it's a very difficult one to turn over an election on, and believe me, I would have loved to. Simcoe County is one of the largest geographical districts; you have from Barrie to Penetang to Orillia to Collingwood. As you might know, to organize a grassroots political movement to kick out our school board trustees is difficult.

Health committee  That's a brilliant question. We proposed this question to the Simcoe County district health unit and told them we thought we had an illness cluster there. We believed we had a suspected agent causing it. The other two possible agents would be toxic mould or a sick building syndrome type of situation.

Health committee  Our trustees sat around a table and the majority of them admitted they didn't even have basic high school science so they can't understand this. Our argument is that if you don't understand it, you have no right to turn this thing on, but they have not offered to have anyone to come in.

Health committee  No. And is it my responsibility? I've become an epidemiologist here, tracking down the names. People phone me and say, “My little daughter was brought home from school because her heart was pounding so much the teacher could see it through her shirt”. How is it that it's my responsibility to bring all these people in?

Health committee  You'd have to be talking about the school board, which is the elected body. They have done absolutely nothing, and our requests from the beginning have been very reasonable. There are eight--

Health committee  I'll tell you the only request we've ever made of them. There are eight microwave transmitters designed to power 30 computers. This isn't your home Wi-Fi, by the way; this is a much stronger system. They are throughout the school. Only one of them actually connects to eight laptops in one classroom, so the other seven are beaming microwave pulse radiation all day long into the children and aren't being used.

Health committee  We went on multiple occasions. We went to our principal. We had private meetings with the superintendents. We had public meetings like this one with the entire school board on two occasions. As I mentioned, I was a journalist for 20 years. I did a film of children describing their symptoms when they walked into the school and we played it on a 20-foot screen.

Health committee  So that's a no.

Health committee  I apologize.

Health committee  That is exactly right.

Health committee  No one has come to our school to interview any one of these children. No one has done a case history to find out if they had these symptoms prior to Wi-Fi being installed. This is a simple diagnostic procedure that any physician would conduct and not a single one of them has. The ones where the parents have taken studies that show the condition their child has are supported in the annals of science as occurring as a result of Wi-Fi or microwaves.

Health committee  I agree with you completely, sir. We have been entirely discounted. The children have been discounted. For example, we did contact a biologist who is the president of Lakehead University, who is a school administrator in our area. Lakehead has a campus in Simcoe County, in Orillia.

Health committee  We've reported to them. They deferred to Health Canada, as did everybody else: that Safety Code 6 says it's safe. I've pointed out to them that, in fact, after reading Safety Code 6, on page 3, there's a disclaimer that says in a world of rapidly changing technology, “this code cannot cover all possible situations”.