Dr. Goodenowe's response to CBC's November 30 and December 2, 2025 articles

The response

Public statement, December 3, 2025

On December 3, 2025, Dr. Goodenowe issued a recorded public statement addressing the CBC reporting and the statement in the Saskatchewan legislature. The statement runs approximately twenty-eight minutes. It opens with introductory remarks, plays MLA Jared Clarke's December 1 statement in full and unedited so viewers can hear it in its entirety, presents a chronological account of Susie Silvestri's stay at the centre based on documented records, examines specific elements of CBC's reporting against that account, and addresses elements of Clarke's legislature statement that were not in the original CBC article.

The full statement is provided below. Readers can use the chapter guide to skip to specific sections; each timestamp jumps the embedded video to that point.

Chapter guide

MLA Jared Clarke's December 1 legislature statement, played in full and unedited, begins at 1:38. A statement of support from Dr. John Whitcomb of Elm Grove, Wisconsin, plays at 4:42. Dr. Goodenowe addresses his role as a researcher and educator, and the distinction from the practice of medicine, at 6:24. The organizational structure of the Restorative Health Centre, including its relationship to the broader network of companies, is described at 8:41.

The chronological account of Susie Silvestri's stay at the centre begins at 10:44. Specific elements of CBC's reporting are examined against that account beginning at 13:49. Elements of MLA Clarke's December 1 statement that were not in the original CBC article are addressed beginning at 20:50. Closing remarks on Moose Jaw and the community begin at 23:41.

What the response addresses

Five elements of the coverage

The first is the organizational structure of the centre. Dr. Goodenowe describes the Moose Jaw Restorative Health Centre as a personalized research facility operated as part of a broader network, with administrative services, laboratory services, and nutritional product manufacturing handled by separate companies, and client services contracted through Dr. Goodenowe Perpetual Health in the United States. He describes the Moose Jaw centre as a personal-assistance environment for clients developing independent wellness programming, and states that it is not a long-term care facility and does not provide medical services. He addresses his own role as a researcher and educator with a PhD in psychiatric medicine, and notes that he is not a medical doctor and does not present himself as one.

The second is a documented chronological account of Susie Silvestri's stay. Dr. Goodenowe presents her intake letter, the dates of her three-month program (September 6 to December 6, 2024), and a sequence of observations recorded by staff and a licensed medical doctor. He describes the medical events that occurred during her stay, including a hospital admission for COVID and pneumonia, and her subsequent return to the centre. He states that she expressed a desire for a feeding tube on December 5, was admitted to the local Moose Jaw hospital, and that surgery was determined by licensed medical staff at that hospital to not be medically necessary. He states that her three-month contract ended on December 6, and that she travelled to Montana on December 8 to seek the procedure elsewhere, where she received it. She died in a Montana hospital on December 26, 2024.

The third is specific elements of CBC's published reporting. Dr. Goodenowe notes that photographs of Susie Silvestri reproduced in the CBC article were not taken at the Moose Jaw centre. He states that the deterioration in her physical condition described in the article occurred before her arrival in Moose Jaw and not during her stay. He plays the longer recorded interview with Scott Myers, an ALS client in Moose Jaw, which CBC reduced to a single sentence in the November 30 article.

The fourth is the December 1 statement made in the Saskatchewan legislature. Dr. Goodenowe plays MLA Jared Clarke's statement in full and unedited, and then examines specific assertions made in the legislature that were not in the November 30 CBC article. These include the assertion that Ms. Silvestri was starving, the assertion that she had not eaten for days, the assertion that the centre conditioned services on payment, and the assertion of a hundred-percent success-rate claim. He states that each of these assertions departs from what was reported in the original CBC article and is not supported by the documented record.

The fifth is the broader context. Dr. Goodenowe notes that the centre employs more than forty people in Moose Jaw, operates five facilities, and provides services free of charge to approximately one hundred and seventy local residents. He references the defamation action filed against CBC and Geoff Leo in August 2025; further information on the lawsuit is available on the lawsuit page.