Project Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

Re: Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code

(11 September, 2008)

• Background | The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is the regulatory and licensing authority for physicians and surgeons practising in Ontario. The Ontario Human Rights Commission responded to a draft policy of the College by recommending that the exercise of freedom of conscience by physicians be restricted.  The College, in response, released a draft policy Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code, indicating that Ontario physicians would be expected to sacrifice their freedom of conscience to meet the demands of their patients and avoid prosecution by Ontario’s human rights apparatus. Project Submission