B.C. RCMP investigating website selling fake mask and vaccine exemption 'certificates'
CBC
A police investigation is underway into a B.C.-based website selling phoney mask and vaccine exemption certificates, CBC has confirmed.
Officers with the Chilliwack RCMP detachment are conducting the investigation into EnableAir.com, which has advertised "authentic medical exemptions" for people who are "concerned with totalitarian mainstream narratives" related to COVID-19.
As CBC first reported in October, the website appears to be connected to Dr. Gwyllyn Goddard, who is based in Cultus Lake, an area policed by Chilliwack RCMP.
Mounties have not responded to requests for more information about their investigation, and Goddard did not reply to requests for comment by email or phone.
The contact information displayed on an Enable Air certificate obtained by CBC matches publicly listed contact information for Goddard and his Kelowna-based cannabis business. It was apparently signed by Dr. Stephen Malthouse, a B.C. physician facing multiple allegations of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines.
Malthouse said Wednesday that he couldn't comment on the RCMP investigation, and declined to answer questions about how many exemption certificates he has signed.
Goddard's medical licence is "temporarily inactive," according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. Malthouse is currently fully licensed with no restrictions on his practice.
A copy of the same certificate has been sent to the college, and they are investigating as well.
B.C.'s Health Ministry says there is no such thing as an exemption "certificate" for either masks or vaccines, and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has said that writing a fake exemption constitutes fraud.
Most of the Enable Air website is currently offline, but the most recent version of the site included a disclaimer about the effectiveness of the certificates.
"It may not work and we cannot offer refunds due to the fact that we have no control over the extreme ignorance being programmed into the minds of the public via the mainstream media which appears to have been completely hijacked," it said.
The website also described CBC's previous stories on Enable Air as "defamatory slander."
Certificates produced through Enable Air don't offer any specifics about why the bearer should be exempted from mask and vaccine mandates, but offers a long list of possible reasons, including vaccine allergies, HIV, autism, "impaired social development," asthma, eczema, migraines and "personal belief."
Speaking to a CBC reporter in Terrace on Wednesday, Malthouse claimed he signs these exemptions because people are being "coerced" into being vaccinated.
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