Trevor Arnason

Arnason practices medicine at College Square Medical Clinic in Ottawa, Ontario.¹⁾

Arnason previously worked as a Regional Medical Officer of Health in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 2016-2018,²⁾ where he worked on several health promotion initiatives and co-led responses to multiple vaccine preventable disease outbreaks - including one of the largest measles outbreaks in Canada in recent years.^{3) 4) 5)}

Arnason was a member of the Behavioural Science Working Group for the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. He is no longer listed on the Table's website, though he submitted a disclosure form on February 12, 2021.⁶⁾

Arnason is employed as Associate Medical Officer of Health at Ottawa Public Health, where he has worked since January 2019.⁷⁾

In this position, Arnason has played a leadership role in Ontario's COVID-19 pandemic response. His salary increased by over $100,000.00 CAD to $234,252.18 in the first year of the crisis, up from $129,035.90 in 2019.⁸⁾

He authored a memo to Ottawa physicians, specialists and nurse practitioners notifying them that patients with medical exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccines will be required to receive and use a provincially-issued QR code “to access certain business and settings.”⁹⁾

This could be described as a vaccine passport for the “unvaccinated”, lending credence to the notion that COVID-19 policies are geared in part towards the institutionalization of digital identification. Shockingly, Arnason's letter concludes by directing physicians and nurse practitioners for “referral and specialist consultation support” to the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN), which is funded by COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, VBI Vaccines, Novartis and Sanofi, as well as the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.^{10) 11)}

Back in January 2021, Arnason appeared in a commercial for COVID-19 vaccines in his position at AMOH.¹²⁾ In an interview with CTV News, he stated that his region would be setting up vaccination clinics in schools, like with previous school vaccination programs. He also said “it's important that all residents receive the COVID-19 vaccine, including children.”¹³⁾

In December 2021, Arnason retweeted U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Wolensky's false statement that the COVID-19 vaccines “have undergone the most comprehensive & intense safety monitoring system in U.S. history. To date, no serious safety concerns have been identified.”¹⁴⁾

He is also the author of a template for suspending students from school due to “incomplete vaccination record”, dated 2019-2020.¹⁵⁾

Arnason is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa.¹⁶⁾

Arnason received his MD from the University of Toronto, and did a combined residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa.^{17) 18)}

Arnason appeared on an episode of CANVax's Emerging Topics podcast to discuss how the Children’s Immunization Clinic was created and implemented in the beginning weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring infants would still receive their routine vaccinations soon after birth.¹⁹⁾

The episode description includes a link to CHEO which is funded by Canadian National Railway (whose major shareholder is Bill Gates), Ericsson, McDonald's, and the Ottawa Police Service.²⁰⁾