Mon Nov 28, 2022 – 6:53 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Canadian lawyer Michael Alexander appeared before a tribunal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) on Wednesday, November 23 to defend three of his clients against an attempt to have their licenses taken away due to their anti-COVID-narrative stances and actions.
Alexander’s defense centered on two main issues: First, that patients in Ontario have a constitutional right to security of the person for reasons of informed consent and, second, that the regulations being leveled at Ontario doctors are not laws but recommendations and guidelines.
It was Alexander’s contention that since Canadians have a constitutional right to the security of the person, it would be unlawful for any regulating body to bar a doctor from informing a patient of any possible side effects associated with any medicine, COVID-related or otherwise, and since the rules that the doctors’ allegedly transgressed were not laws that “they can’t be used as a basis for prosecuting anyone.”
Alexander explained during the hearing that, normally speaking, any legal changes to standards of practice must be legislated through parliament, and the CPSO cannot simply dictate what constitute new regulatory practices
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