The Lisa Beaumont Story, by Calvin Mulligan, April 23, 2026 (c) draft All Rights Reserved
I feel like I don’t belong in the this world — I’m here but I don’t belong. — Lisa
Early years
Note: Names of individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.
Lisa Beaumont, Jean-Philippe and Marie-Anne’s first child, was born in Ottawa’s projects in Overbrook on December 15, 1960. It’s often said that timing is everything. Jean-Philippe’s and Marie-Anne’s circumstances at the time were far from welcoming for their newborn. When Lisa arrived on the scene, Jean-Philippe, the product of a dysfunctional home and now an alcoholic and chronic wife abuser, was serving time in jail. The routine chaos, highlighted by weekend booze parties in the family home would have made Lisa’s prospects for a “normal” infancy and childhood unlikely. So, it was decided that her maternal grandparents would become her caregivers, an arrangement that remained in place for a large segment of her childhood.
Their home became Lisa’s home for the first six years of her life and again from age 12 to 15 years. During the interval she lived with her parents, her grandparents’ home remained her weekend refuge as that’s when Jean-Philippe hosted parties with his coworkers in the family home. Looking back, Lisa recalls the occasion, at the age five or six, when her grandfather told her, “Today, you’re going to meet someone … it’s your dad”. I can’t imagine what might have gone through the mind of this young child as she pondered meeting this stranger.
Jean-Phillippe was a man with a reputation, albeit an infamous one. Lisa recalls that at one point during her childhood, his drinking party antics earned him the nickname “Shotgun”. (It wasn’t until his fifties that Jean-Phillippe had his come-to-Jesus moment and opted for a new lifestyle.) Unsurprisingly then, it fell to Lisa’s grandparents to provide her with some semblance of security, stability and instruction in life’s basics. It was her grandparents who took her to church regularly, taught her the virtues of hard work and thrift, helped her set up her first bank account and encouraged her in her school work.
Lisa recalls feeling that she was different from her peers for her entire life. She doesn’t recollect ever identifying with one of the various student cliques in junior high or high school. She had a circle of friends, but she didn’t necessarily conform to their thinking or behaviour. She recalled, for example, that on occasion she would skip class and join her friends when they would sneak into the bush to smoke pot. Yet she refrained from the pot-smoking.
At age 17, Lisa lost the two familial pillars in her life. Her grandmother, “memère, passed in April of 1978 and her grandfather, “pepère”, committed suicide in September of that year. With her grade 11 completed and both grandparents gone, Lisa found her life tilting in a new direction. She had begun dating a classmate named Bernie, the previous year. The relationship progressed to the point that they began cohabitating later that year and were married in 1979.
Marriage, kids and career
Lisa began operating a flower arrangement business out of their apartment while Bernie worked ( at?). Their marriage produced two son Jules and Marcel within four years, ending abruptly on November 13 of 1985. Lisa had returned home from a coffee visit with a friend to discover a note from Bernie on the top of the stove. It said she had one week to pack her things and move out. It was decided that Bernie would be keeping the two boys. With help from Legal Aid, Lisa navigated the divorce process to a conclusion in early 1987.
By that point, Lisa was enjoying the company of a childhood friend who had grown up next door. Tyler and Lisa married in August of 1987. Her second marriage produced a third son, Edward and unfortunately would have an even shorter life than the first. It came to an end four years later when Tylor decided that he wanted out. Their divorce was finalized in August of 1992. So, by the age of 32, Lisa was a twice-divorced, mother in need of work. Looking back, she recalls multiple turbulent occasions when she felt like she wanted to die, a symptom of what psychologists call an unhealed “father wound”.
Lisa and Tyler agreed that he would remain in their apartment and Lisa would move into an apartment one floor above. Tyler applied for welfare and took care of their young son, Edward. Lisa found employment in a local Ottawa flower shop. The income supplemented her part time job at a local hospital, which became a full time job later that year. In 1995, Lisa’s career moved in a different direction. She became a bartender at a motel in Vanier district of the city, and earned her certificate in bartending.
Two years later, in 1997, Lisa began work as a bartender with an expanded list of job duties at at another Vanier bar. About a year later, she began dating Marty, a winter regular at the bar. Marty moved into Lisa’s apartment in 1999. In 2003, Marty bought a swimming pool business and Lisa became office assistant. According to Lisa, the business had real potential. Marty, however, lacked the aptitude or the patience required to provide good customer service and it steadily declined, leaving Lisa to manage the winding up of the business.
With the pool business no longer viable, Lisa found herself in looking for a job again. This time she landed one with Lumsden Brothers Cash ‘n Carry in Ottawa, a subsidiary of Sobey’s. The job was short-lived. When the store was sold in March of 2006, she found work at a new Sobey’s store in Orleans. It would also be also short-lived. Within the year, she learned of a job opportunity at a residential care home in Orleans. So, Lisa resigned and joined the care home’s housekeeping department in June of 2009.
A confrontation and steady descent
Marty and Lisa’s common law relationship followed a similar pattern of decline to that of the pool business, leading to a separation at one point followed by reconciliation. But the relationship remained troubled. Things came to a head in the spring of 2016. Lisa had become aware of Marty’s cheating, and confronted him about his texting other women. The two continued to cohabit for an additional seven years, but their relationship spiralled steadily downward. It was a period marked by frequent bickering and increasing wine consumption on Lisa’s part.
The pressures in her life culminated in new stressful highs in 2018 and 2019 due to a combination of developments. She and Marty were often bickering about his outside love interests. Her son, Marcel, had acquired a serious drug problem and was also showing symptoms of bipolar disorder. Lisa had been left to pick up the tab when he failed to make the payments for a new truck purchase. And to top things off, a supportive male friend exited Lisa’s life. The barometer of her distress, her daily wine consumption, had now reached a litre or more on occasions.
Time for a change?
In December of 2019, Lisa decided to accompany her youngest son, Edward, to Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. It would be a chance to get away from some of the pressures in her life. Edward, a chef, had resigned his job in Ottawa and decided to relocate to the DR, to begin a new life with his Dominican girlfriend, Rita. From an early age, Edward had demonstrated non-conformist tendencies that had taken him into the realm of so-called “conspiracy theories”. Some of the subjects uncovered in his truth-seeking also resonated with Lisa, adding to her suspicion that she was living in a false reality. The trip provided a pleasant escape, but it didn’t erase Lisa’s problems. She returned home to find Marty was still Marty, a man with a wandering eye and a cover story for every deception.
The Great Deception and a personal crisis
The WHO announced a public health emergency of international concern on the 30th of January 2020 and declared it a pandemic on March 30. (Wikipedia). On February 4, 2020, the Diamond Princess cruise ship was quarantined at Yokohama, Japan. Media reports claimed that over 700 passengers and 150 crew members were infected with a novel SARS virus labelled Covid-19. There was something about this story that struck both Lisa and her son, Edward, as odd. She’s can’t put her finger on exactly what it was — the quarantining of the entire ship, the claims regarding the threat posed by the so-called novel virus or the media spotlight given the story. Perhaps it was all three. Things were getting strange.
That said, some thing appear to have remained constants in Lisa’s otherwise turbulent life. Her faith in “the most high God” endured throughout. She points out that it doesn’t hinge on an attachment to a any particular religious institution or denomination. She considers these to be avenues of deception and control. Against this backdrop, the year 2020 would be a pivotal year for Lisa in terms of her spiritual journey. Edward had become an adherent of the Gathering of Christ Church. At his urging, Lisa completed a series of bible study classes the church offered on-line. She’d also heard about the “Bikers’ Church” in Vanier, Ottawa. She was impressed by its commitment to serving those from all walks of life and, curious about its teaching. So, she occasionally watched its Sunday broadcasts.
Looking back, it seems clear that something was stirring in Lisa’s spirit leading to a series of life-changing decisions. At one point that year, she largely abandoned alcohol consumption. Upon learning that her MD was about to retire, Lisa secured his medical support for an extension of her stress leave from her job at the care home. The same month, she dumped out all her medications. This included medications for depression, high blood pressure and cholesterol. Why? Her response is an emphatic, “Because it’s all fake.” In December of 2020, frustrated by her employer’s repeated calls to return to work, and knowing it would demand she get vaxxed, Lisa submitted her resignation.
A wedding amid the madness
In January (2021), Lisa returned to the Dominican Republic to attend her son, Edward’s wedding. It was apparent that Covid-19 paranoia prevailed both in Canada and abroad. She was required to wear a mask in order to fly Air Canada to her destination. The Dominican Republic, and seemingly the vast majority of its population, were dutifully compliant “covidians”. The Uber drivers wore masks. Her son’s in-laws in the wedding party, one of them a medical doctor, wore masks, even in Edward’s apartment. Their resort hotel required guests to use a disinfectant shoe bath before entering the premises. And the hotel restaurant had adopted the absurd “masks-when-not eating-or-drinking” policy. Masked servers stood soberly at the buffet to serve guests their portions.
Throughout her visit, Edward made a point of noting the many “stupid” health protocols they encountered. When it was time to leave the country, Lisa was obliged to provide a negative PCR test to the airline before boarding (the known inaccuracy of the PCR test notwithstanding). The covid clampdown didn’t end there. Lisa’s home and native land was firmly under the spell of its medical magicians and their authoritarian enforcers. Once home, Lisa would have to remain quarantined in her apartment for two weeks.
Lisa soon discovered that the 24/7 covid-vaxx propaganda campaign had turned many Canadians, particularly those in the medical profession, into vigilant little “soldiers” for the cause. Lisa recalls she and Marty had guests while camping in their motor home near Cornwall that summer. They were Marty’s friend Gerry, his wife Maureen, a nurse, and their two children. At one point during their visit, Maureen asked if she might step inside to see the interior of the motor home. Lisa invited her inside for a quick tour. In the course of their conversation, Maureen asked Lisa if she had gotten vaxxed. Lisa replied “Absolutely not!” The response triggered a scornful, “People like you…..” retort from Maureen. Lisa is still taken aback by the self-righteous conduct of her guest.
In September of 2021, Lisa returned to Boca Rica in the Dominican Republic at her son, Edward’s urging. This trip was different. Edward was convinced Canada was headed for economic collapse and suspected the government would enforce a vaccination requirement on its citizens. Lisa had stored her household belongings with her second son, Marcel, before her departure for the Dominican thinking she might decide to make it her permanent home. Marcel subsequently decided to join his mother and brother and sold her belongings before his departure.
The relocation plan was not to be. Lisa changed her mind about making Boca Rica her permanent home in the wake of a jarring family incident. She returned to life in Canada in December minus many of her household items, including a prized dinnerware collection that Marcel had sold before his departure for the DR. Covid restrictions were easing. At this point, the Canadian government’s two week quarantine requirement no longer applied.
Note: In the spring of 2021, Both the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms and the Canadian Constitution Foundation launched legal challenges to the Quarantine Act requiring that international travellers were to be quarantined at government-designated hotels upon their return to Canada.
Personal changes
Back home, Lisa continued on her personal campaign to improve her health with dietary changes. An acquaintance from her travels had sparked an interest in the value of food supplements. In August of 2023, Lisa became a distributor for a manufacturer of food supplements. The business offered her the prospect of improving her diet and potentially making some money on the side. Lisa integrated several of the company’s products into her daily diet and took the additional step of deleting pork and “bottom feeders” from her diet. (She bases this on a prescription from the book of Leviticus in the bible). The changes appear to have paid dividends as Lisa reports losing 40 pounds, having more energy level and becoming calmer.
As a means of promoting food product sales, Lisa created a YouTube channel where she regularly posted uplifting motivational content. She hasn’t gotten rich from product sales, but she has enriched the lives of hundreds of her followers with her posts and inspirational videos segments featuring daily walks with her dog, “Bear”. One of her posts generated close to 9,000 views.
The battle for hearts and minds
I wondered what information and news sources sustained Lisa throughout the brutal war waged on the hearts and minds of Canadians. She says that she largely abandoned mainstream media at the outset, shifting to a variety of alternative sources of news and spiritual nourishment. Lisa followed the journey and briefings of several resister-truthers appearing on French Facebook. One of her regulars was Daniel Pilon, a man who billed himself as “Chroniqueur Libre-Penseur”. Daniel, a member of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy protest, started an on-line radio station called Radio-Réveil, offering insights into what was actually transpiring.
She also followed many other “truthers” posting content on Youtube. One of particular interest was lawyer Andre Lafrance, who travelled throughout the US in his RV, stopping at towns and cities along his route. His updates were revealing. In a capsule, he found nothing of public health significance occurring at ground level in his travels. Lisa also found the story of police officer, Max Ouillet of Laval, Quebec, intriguing. Max quit the police force after investigating and discovering the hospitals were empty. Thus Max, among others, played a role in refuting the ever-popular “overwhelmed hospitals” lie.
Lisa also recalled the revelations of honest, independent medical doctors, researchers and other professionals unbeholden to the Establishment. One was Dr. Lucie Mandeville who took her investigation of the Covid-19 Plandemic to Sweden, Mandeville reported to her Canadian audience that calm prevailed in that country in striking contrast to the medical theatre being staged in Canada. Lisa had also followed the alternative media news reports regarding the Trucker Convoy following its arrival in Ottawa in January of 2022. One source referenced earlier was Daniel’s reports on Radio-Réveil. While she was unable to visit the convoy downtown, independent journalists like him confirmed her conclusion that the government narrative was “fake”. Lisa laughs upon recalling the array of her alternative news sources she tapped, “I guess I was a conspiracy theorist”.
Sickening side effects
At home in Ottawa in retirement mode, Lisa encountered some sobering signs that her retirement from her job at the care home had been timely. In early 2022, she bumped into Frank, a former colleague who held a second job at a local Superstore. Frank had gotten vaxxed in order to retain his job at the care home and told her about his misfortunes. One of his thighs was racked with pain. Despite this, he’d gotten a second vaxx, something that seemingly added to his pain. The reactions were severe enough to send him home briefly to recover, and in both cases his employer had been unsympathetic. It seemed as if its only concern was how quickly Frank could get back to work. To make matters worse, Frank’s 20 year old son, also vaxxed, was also plagued with serious health problems.
In the Spring of 2024, Lisa bumped into Frank, accompanied by his wife, at a local Walmart. It was obvious that he’d lost weight. Frank confirmed that there had been no improvement in his condition. And his son had had to get a colostomy and now wore a collection bag. Frank’s misfortune didn’t end there. His wife, Maria, also vaxxed, was now undergoing treatment for brain cancer with the attendant risk of metastasis.
Given the family’s serious health situation, Frank had quit his job at the store as holding two jobs had become too much. He informed Lisa that a significant number of colleagues at the care home had resigned their jobs and in several instances were suffering from serious health conditions. Lisa, touched by his devastating situation, offered her prayers and encouraged Frank to get in touch if there was something she might do to help.
Endings and goodbyes
By the fall of 2023, endings of one kind or another had become thematic in Lisa’s life. It wasn’t just her trust in government, the media and the medical professions that had ended. Her relationships with now former friends and vaxx-indoctrinated colleagues and family members had also ended. In retrospect, she believes it was the hand of Providence that brought her back home from the DR in December of 2022 for another ending. Marty was sick and losing weight as throat cancer and other undiagnosed maladies gnawed at his body.
Despite his controlling behaviour and long-running unfaithfulness, Lisa decided she no longer wished to engage when he became combative. Instead, she would “kill him with kindness”. The effect must have been disarming in that at one point, Marty confessed, “I don’t know you any more.” On November 9, Marty exited this life via the federal government’s MAID program. Lisa reflected on what had, at times, been a psychologically and emotionally-abusive relationship. She put Mike’s departure in Providential terms: “God took him out of my life.” Looking back, she blames herself for not leaving him.
The goodbyes continued. On May 23 of 2024, Lisa’s dad, Jean-Philippe, aged 86 years, also departed via MAID. Lisa was uncomfortable with his decision as he wasn’t in pain and it seemed inconsistent with his now Christian faith. That said, it was his choice. The next goodbye came in the Spring of 2025. Lisa’s beloved Shih Tzu, her companion for more than seven years” had been having seizures since January. On April 2025, she bid “Bear” adieu.
Casualties of war, rebuilding
Lisa’s world has changed dramatically. During our first informal chat at the shopping mall in Orleans, I sensed a note of loneliness mixed with melancholy in her tone. She lamented that in the wake of the Covid-vaxx war, “… nobody talks to you.” As a compatriot, I could relate. It’s a lingering effect of an unconventional war that’s left many reeling in the wake of two kinds of casualties. One is that of vaxx-related injuries and deaths. A second is that of damaged and lost relationships. In Lisa’s case, the camaraderie and interactions she once enjoyed with co-workers and friends are gone. The same can be said of her former relationship with family members and relatives. Suffice to say, the cumulative effect has left her feeling excluded and alone.
There’s also some disillusionment in Lisa’s tone regarding the distancing that occurred when she made her position known to others — in person or via social media. It can be as blatant as the reaction of Maureen, the nurse in Lisa’s motor home that day or more subtle. Friends and family members she once thought “had her back” suddenly didn’t. As hard as it is to imagine this many years later, most of Lisa’s family members were pro-vaxx and remain so. She says the same of her son Edward’s in-laws, all devout trust-the-government vaxx believers. Lisa’s disillusionment concerning their appetites for propaganda is obvious: “I can’t believe how much people believe without questioning”.
My experience tells me that the differences aren’t simply a matter of individuals’ stances regarding the Plandemic and the Covid vaxx. The divide is much bigger than that. It concerns one’s faith in, or conversely non-confidence in governments, the public health system, medical doctors, the pharma industrial complex, corporate media and so on. In reality, resisters like Lisa and the as yet unawakened inhabit significantly different realities and hold very different worldviews.
Lisa faces the challenge of reconfiguring her life on a new, different plane. She admits that the process hasn’t been easy. She can’t simply go out and recruit new friends of course. “It’s lonely out there. There are too many fake people”, she says. Nonetheless, she prays that God puts “good people” in her path each day. It’s a process of patient venturing into new unknowns, something she feels she needs to become more comfortable with.
Having hobbies can be therapeutic in times like this. Lisa learned how to crochet in her teens. Decades later, she puts her crocheting skills to work on a near-daily basis. When we first met, she gave me a crocheted heart, and on our second visit, a clover leaf. At the end of one of our library interviews, she led me to the parking lot and proudly showed me the multi-coloured cover that she had crocheted for the rear-mounted spare tire on her Jeep. I had to admit it was a first for me.
Further Reflections
Lisa has no regrets about her vaxx-related decision and her stand. This is a woman who told me the day we met that she would rather die alone and unvaxxed than, in effect, be a guinea pig in someone’s medical experiment. As we wound down the interview, I asked if she had any advice for others based on her experience. “Don’t trust your government…they don’t care about you. You have to think for yourself … Question, question…”
She’s grateful for the divine and earthly help she has received throughout the war years. “God most high” is at the top of her list. She also values the role her questioning son, Edward has played in her political and spiritual awakening. It was Edward who often brought the anomalies in the official “Plandemic” narrative to her attention. Edward and Rita have given Lisa a grand daughter. Lisa brightens when the subject of her granddaughter arises. She proudly tells me that little Sofia is home-schooled by her parents and vaxx-free.
Lisa is seeking some sense of that larger purpose God has in mind for her life. I gently suggested that she’s been quietly growing into it. Her habit of spontaneously gifting acquaintances with her crocheted calling cards is an example of its expression. Lisa is instinctively uplifting others. One of the recipients of one of her crocheted hearts told me that the simple gesture had “made my day”.
Lisa habitually collects bits of wisdom she can share with followers on her YouTube channel. Paradoxically, it’s when she herself needs a “pick me up” that she’s prompted to post something inspirational for her audience. Life’s little synchronies can provide such timely spiritual boosts. Lisa recalls setting aside a scriptural excerpt on the subject of trust for posting in some form at at latter date. A few weeks later, the perfect encapsulation of the message, a quote from Shakespeare, appeared in her daily calendar. She promptly found some artwork to serve as a backdrop for the text and posted the piece. The text reads:
Even the people who betray you are part of the plan. Love all, trust few. Do wrong to none.
The statement appears to speak to many aspects of Lisa’s Plandemic experience. It’s an encouragement to rise above the assaults and injuries and continue on her upward spiritual path. They are parts of a larger and more glorious plan. In fact, it seems to me that the quote speaks to Lisa’s entire life.
Author’s note: One evening after my interview with Lisa, I returned to the core question of what it was that had enabled her to stand firm amid a full-strength propaganda hurricane and its aftermath. I stared at a chronology that I’d made of the major events in her life, and then it hit me like the proverbial brick on the side of the head.
Lisa had been an outsider …. someone who had stood apart from the crowd from birth. The group, or the “herd” as it’s termed in less kindly terms, had never been her reference point when it came to making decisions or choosing her path. The gaslighting, bullying, and intimidation that resisters were subjected weren’t new to Lisa. She’d experienced it throughout much of her life.
In light of the above, the answer to my question was clear. Lisa has been unconsciously developing the psychological, emotional and spiritual muscles and the endurance to withstand the Propagandemic test over the course of a lifetime.