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CPSO violates Your Privacy. Please email your MP and all of Ontario MPPs to ask for accountability and oversight.Show more

MPP mailing list from Action4Canada’s website:
https://action4canada.com/4083-2/

MP contact info:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search

Draft letter as proposed by Action4Canada:

Dear Elected Official,
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), is abusing their investigatory powers, as well as breaching privacy and charter rights. Read the following press release outlining a critical case that will be before the Toronto Divisional Court on March 30, 2023. Citizen’s are taking the CPSO to court in response to an unprecedented privacy breach. https://action4canada.com/urgent-canadians-take-medical-regulator-to-court-for-privacy-breach/
The CPSO is a professional regulator gone rogue. They are maliciously going after doctors who put patient care, respecting informed consent and patient privacy, ahead of politics. But it gets worse, the CPSO is now demanding patients’ private medical records without lawful authority. This is an abuse of power.
The judiciary are ignoring and overriding judicial process and the law. Judges are disregarding long standing Supreme Court rulings and their Oath to the Bench by failing in their duty to scrutinize professional regulators. Professional regulators are acting as if they are independent bodies who are above the law.
The right to be secure from government intrusion on individual privacy is a hallmark of a free and democratic society. This right is under threat in Canada and few Canadians know about it. Decades ago, Canada’s Supreme Court recognized privacy as an “essential aspect of a free and democratic society.”[1] “Privacy, including informational privacy, is grounded in a person’s physical and moral autonomy, and is essential for the well-being of the individual.”[2] There can be nothing more private than the intimate information we share about our bodies and our thoughts, with our doctor.
If the Courts allow the invasion of privacy in the confines of the sanctimonious Dr-Patient relationship, then nothing is sacred anymore!
It is up to the judiciary to rein the CPSO back in and scrutinize their actions. However, since the judiciary is failing to do so the responsibility goes back to the legislature, both federally and provincially. Therefore, I request that you take immediate action to prohibit the CPSO’s abuse of power and in so doing protect and uphold the fundamental charter rights and privacy rights of every Canadian.
Yours truly,

[1 ] Hunter v Southam 1984 2 SCR 145 https://canlii.ca/t/1mgc1
[2] R. v Dyment 1988 2 SCR 417 & R v. O’Connor 1995 4 SCR 411 https://canlii.ca/t/1ftc6 https://canlii.ca/t/1frdh