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Allison Inquiry | Dan Hartman | Day 4 September 11th, 2026
A father testifies for his 17-year-old son Shawn, a healthy hockey team captain who took a single Pfizer dose to keep playing the sport he loved. He describes raccoon eyes and a sore shoulder with no blood work done at the ER, his son's death weeks later, an autopsy that could not determine a cause, and a lawsuit against Health Canada and Pfizer.
Dan Hartman testifies, wearing his son's hockey jersey, about Shawn Hartman, who was 17, a shy, private boy who loved movies, animals and hockey, and had played since he was five. Shawn was team captain and a defenseman for the Beeton Stingers, hoped to reach the NHL or become a referee, and had no pre-existing health conditions, but was terrified of needles. He says his son's hockey league required vaccination to play, and Shawn took a single Pfizer dose on August 25, 2021, with no second dose. Four days later, Hartman says, Shawn was rushed to the emergency room with bruised-looking eyes, a rash on his face and neck, vomiting and severe pain in the shoulder opposite his injection site, and that the ER did no blood work and sent him home with a painkiller prescription. He describes a television doctor telling him the eye symptom was classically a sign of a blood clot, growing fatigue in the weeks after, and finding Shawn dead on the floor beside his bed on September 27, 2021. He says the autopsy listed the cause of death as unascertained, and that Dr. Peter McCullough, who reviewed the autopsy, concluded Shawn had myocarditis that was dismissed in Toronto as a normal athletic heart. Hartman describes a lawsuit against Health Canada and Pfizer, a recent Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that Health Canada owes no duty of care to individuals, his wish for an admission of guilt rather than money, and his concerns about informed consent and minors consenting to the vaccine without parental knowledge. MPs thank him for his advocacy.
Dan Hartman testifies, wearing his son's hockey jersey, about Shawn Hartman, who was 17, a shy, private boy who loved movies, animals and hockey, and had played since he was five. Shawn was team captain and a defenseman for the Beeton Stingers, hoped to reach the NHL or become a referee, and had no pre-existing health conditions, but was terrified of needles. He says his son's hockey league required vaccination to play, and Shawn took a single Pfizer dose on August 25, 2021, with no second dose. Four days later, Hartman says, Shawn was rushed to the emergency room with bruised-looking eyes, a rash on his face and neck, vomiting and severe pain in the shoulder opposite his injection site, and that the ER did no blood work and sent him home with a painkiller prescription. He describes a television doctor telling him the eye symptom was classically a sign of a blood clot, growing fatigue in the weeks after, and finding Shawn dead on the floor beside his bed on September 27, 2021. He says the autopsy listed the cause of death as unascertained, and that Dr. Peter McCullough, who reviewed the autopsy, concluded Shawn had myocarditis that was dismissed in Toronto as a normal athletic heart. Hartman describes a lawsuit against Health Canada and Pfizer, a recent Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that Health Canada owes no duty of care to individuals, his wish for an admission of guilt rather than money, and his concerns about informed consent and minors consenting to the vaccine without parental knowledge. MPs thank him for his advocacy.
