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The group’s attorney described the situation as an ‘unprecedented attack’ on the ‘privacy’ of the doctor-patient relationship after the regulator demanded a doctor release medical records or face discipline because she gave out COVID mask exemptions.
(LifeSiteNews) – Hundreds of an Ontario physician’s patients are taking to court the province’s medical regulator for what their lawyer describes as an “unprecedented attack” on the “privacy” of the doctor-patient relationship after the regulator demanded the doctor release medical records to them or face discipline because she gave out COVID mask exemptions.
In a press conference held today in Toronto, the patients’ lawyer, Rocco Galati, said the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is “attacking the sanctity and privacy of the doctor-patient relationship and the right to privacy of personal and health information in Canada.”
“Medical regulatory overreach must be subject to judicial scrutiny by the Courts. The Rule of Law requires it,” Galati noted.
The case is being spearheaded by the Privacy is Your Right group with Galati as its legal counsel. The group says that its case is about “who has control of our medical and personal information, who it’s available to, and for what purpose(s).”
The case involves a demand against an Ontario doctor by the CPSO for what the plaintiffs say is an “unlawful investigation against their family doctor and unconstitutional demand for their medical records in Toronto.”
According to the plaintiffs, the CPSO has said the doctor “must hand over medical records of all her patients now or face discipline,” because she gave a doctor’s mask exemption to “two little girls from COVID-19 mask mandate.”
The mask exemption claims the CPSO is “misconduct and/or incompetence.”
In the press conference today attended by LifeSiteNews, Galati said the case involves “broad issues affecting all Canadians.”
According to Galati, in their decisions, the lower court justices continue to give “no consideration to jurisprudence (case law). They’re just ignoring it.”
According to the plaintiffs’ group rep, Leslie Peel, who is one of the patients in the case, their “doctor has done an amazing job of standing up” for their rights.
“I think that this is a fight for our privacy. This is absolutely against all our constitutional rights. I think it’s horrific that it’s happening in Canada, and for our children, I have children of my own and I think about the fact that our privacies are eroding, and a lot of people are not paying attention,” Peel said.