Group of Ontario Doctors Resist Regulator’s Missive Blocking Criticism of COVID Measures

People walk past closed businesses on Spadina Avenue in Toronto on May 13, 2021, as stay-at-home orders continue across Ontario. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

More than 150 MDs are challenging the authority of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) after it issued a statement threatening to sanction members for speaking out against COVID-19 public health orders.

The doctors signed the Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth in opposition to the college’s move, stating that their “primary duty of care is not to the CPSO or any other authority, but to our patients.”