{"id":2048,"date":"2008-09-11T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:52:31","slug":"submission-to-the-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"Project Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><i>Re: Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code <\/i><\/h2>\n<p><strong>(11 September, 2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong> | The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpso.on.ca\/\">College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario<\/a> is the regulatory and licensing authority for physicians and surgeons practising in Ontario. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrc.on.ca\/en\/\">Ontario Human Rights Commission<\/a> responded to a draft policy of the College by recommending that the exercise of freedom of conscience by physicians be restricted.\u00a0 The College, in response, released a draft policy <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/archive\/documents\/2008-cpso-ohrc-app-a-consultation%20draft.pdf\">Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code<\/a><\/i>, 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&#8217;s human rights apparatus. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/publications\/submissions\/submissions-006.aspx\">Project Submission<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,508,8,383,287],"tags":[385,187,384,386,566],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-codes-of-ethics","category-ethical-commentary","category-legal-commentary","category-submissions","category-protection-of-conscience-project","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-human-rights","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-human-rights-commission","tag-physicians"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Project Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2048\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Project Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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