Ontario Tribunal Decision Could Define Limit on Doctors’ Freedoms Nationwide

Three Ontario doctors are at risk of losing their licences because they criticized COVID-19 public health recommendations

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

Three Ontario doctors are fighting to keep their licences, and the results of that fight could have wide-reaching implications.

The doctors are under fire for allegedly not following some COVID-19 public health recommendations and for speaking publicly against those recommendations. They are among hundreds of doctors nationwide facing similar investigations by their respective provincial colleges of physicians and surgeons.