Professor Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist and author of 13 books and more than 2,000 articles.

While giving testimony at a citizen's inquiry in Canada, Chossudovsky, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Ottawa, testified that Bill Gates and others were informed about major Covid announcements before they were made public.

Chossudovsky, the head of the Centre for Research on Globalisation ("CRG") which runs the website Global Research, alleges that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave the information to Gates ahead of announcements that impacted the stock market in 2020.

Dr. Tedros gave Gates and others ample opportunity to buy and sell stock to maximize profits based on their insider knowledge, according to Chossudovsky.

Gates made a fortune from insider trading in 2020, he said.

Throughout his long and illustrious career, Prof. Chossudovsky has been researching the global economy.

"When you freeze an economy, you contribute to mass poverty.

"And that has happened at the national and international levels," he said during an interview with Michelle Leduc Catlin.

By closing down economic and social activity in response to the so-called covid pandemic, "from an economic standpoint, when you confine the labor force and you freeze the workplace, the answer is obvious: it's economic collapse, of the real economy," he added.

"You confine the workforce, you trigger bankruptcies …

"There is a logic in that: There's a financial establishment made up of the large banking institutions and they are the creditors.

"And ultimately, they are intent upon taking control over the real economy, or those pieces of the real economy which they want to pick up."