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Paragons of Ethical Medicine Attacked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC

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Paragons of Ethical Medicine Attacked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC


By
Dr. Matthew Evans-Cockle

Left unchecked, the arbitrary power of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC threatens the health and well-being of all British Columbians as well as the core values of Canadian democracy.

A handful of headstrong, and ethically courageous, British Columbian doctors have stood up and voiced their concerns about the potential harms associated with our provincial COVID-19 policies. Doctors Hoffe, Malthouse, Nagase, and Sclater have all run afoul of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. In the interest of brevity and clarity, the reflections that follow will be confined to a single case—that of Dr. Charles Hoffe, who was one of the first, if not the first, BC physician to be censured by the College.

According to the Vancouver Sun, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has issued a citation for Dr. Charles Douglas Hoffe, alleging that his “online comments contravened the standards of the Health Professions Act including the Canadian Medical Association’s code of ethics and professionalism.” The Vancouver Sun article further relates that Doctor Hoffe is accused of uttering a number of public health heresies.

The heresies of Doctor Charles Hoffe, we are told, are many and grievous. First, he has suggested that the mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines may cause “microscopic blood clots.” Such microscopic blood clots, he has allegedly stated, might contribute to severe neurological issues as well as a wide range of other serious harms. On this matter, the College is unfazed by the unprecedented numbers and varieties of harms reported in the world’s most prominent and widely recognized reporting systems, such as the American VAERS, UK’s Yellow Card, European Medicines Agency’s EudraVigilance, and the World Health Organization’s VigiSafe systems. A second heresy for which Dr. Hoffe is reproached, is his suggestion that “vaccinated persons can cause harm to unvaccinated persons.” The College appears steady in their resolve to censure Hoffe on this matter, unshaken by the growing body of evidence that mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of COVID-19 or its variants, or apparently reduce the occurrence of severe COVID-19. But the third, and perhaps greatest of Dr. Hoffe’s heresies is his suggestion that “ivermectin is an advisable treatment for COVID-19!”(1)

Health Canada historically and presently supports the use of approved medicines such as ivermectin for off-label indications at the discretion of prescribing physicians if there are compelling reasons why the doctors believe they may be helpful to their patients. The College’s attack on this statement is particularly ludicrous given its confirmation by no less an authority than Dr. Tess Lawrie, the director of Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy in Bath, UK. With respect to the advisability of ivermectin in treating COVID-19, Dr. Lawrie has conducted a meta-analysis of 15 trials, following the gold-standard Cochrane protocol. While citing both the well-known safety profile and very low cost of ivermectin, Dr. Lawrie’s meta-analysis concludes that with the aid of this essential medicine “large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible” and, that “[u]sing ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease.”(2)

As though Hoffe’s fantastically reckless claim that “ivermectin is an advisable treatment for COVID-19”, were not offensive enough… As though it were not absolutely intolerable that Dr. Hoffe’s assertion is now supported by not just one, but multiple meta-analyses(3)… As if this weren’t already dreadful enough, the allegedly off-his-rocker doctor stands accused of suggesting that people wishing to make use of this treatment disregard its prohibition by Public Health! If Public Health refuses to make this potentially life-saving and inexpensive treatment available—a treatment with an unparalleled safety profile, a treatment already administered billions of times all around the world, a treatment with incredibly few adverse events recorded after over 40 years of use—Dr. Hoffe, I say—echoing the righteous, thundering indignation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC—has had the unmitigated gall to suggest that the public might be justified in obtaining it “from animal feed stores” where it is also available.

But all kidding aside, to an increasing number of gravely concerned British Columbians, the disciplinary actions undertaken by The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC against Dr. Hoffe and his fellow physicians for identifying issues of concern regarding the COVID mandates and recommendations pronounced by Public Health authorities, appear arbitrary, vindictive, and against the public interest. To these citizens, the College appears to be aggressively persecuting highly qualified and conscientious medical professionals for acting according to the dictates of their conscience, knowledge, and sworn oath to do no harm. These doctors have felt compelled to comply with their duties to patients and the community by voicing science-based concerns about potential harms associated with the mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccine, and by drawing attention to the benefits of early treatment. For casting doubt upon the reliability of the Public Health authority’s COVID-19 policies, they have drawn the ire of the BC College, yet for many British Columbians, these courageous physicians embody the spirit of both ethical medicine and social responsibility.

If the actions taken against these doctors by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC are contrary to the spirit of ethical medicine and the dictates of a socially responsible conscience, they are also contrary to the spirit of the law in Canada. According to the Canadian concept of law, a citizen cannot be both accused of a crime and also stripped of the ability to answer the accusation. When the College suspends a doctor’s license it thereby prevents that doctor from earning income. Without income, such doctors will be unable to effectively pay the legal fees required to mount an adequate defense in answering the accusations made against them.

The punitive actions undertaken by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC are made even more outrageous by their complete lack of reasonable grounds. Again and again, the people of BC have heard from Interior Health, Public Health, and the Minister of Health, that their shared goal is to ensure the safety of British Columbians. To this end, they have prohibited physicians and other healthcare providers from publicly expressing opinions that contradict official Public Health recommendations and orders. To contradict these recommendations, they say, is to put people’s lives at risk by encouraging vaccine hesitancy. And yet, time and again, to compel uninformed or poorly informed compliance, our public health authorities have provided misleading, erroneous, or inadequate information to justify orders and recommendations. Assertions concerning the safety and efficacy of mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines have been disproven. Assertions concerning the safety and efficacy of mask wearing and social distancing have been disproven. Similarly, assertions by Public Health authorities concerning the safety and efficacy of lockdown measures have been disproven. While falsely touting the benefits of these mandates, Public Health authorities have been silent or misleading about the risks. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has censured doctors for attempting to prevent harm by providing patients and others with some of the information needed to make informed decisions about COVID-19 treatment.

At this stage, we should all know that the mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission. Indeed, Pfizer executive Janine Small has admitted, before a European Union parliamentary hearing, that Pfizer did not test the vaccine for preventing transmission of COVID-19 prior to it being made available to the public. U.S. CDC director Rochelle Walensky has publicly admitted the vaccines can’t prevent transmission.(4)

And viral immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle has written, “the current COVID-19 vaccines fail to induce what we call ‘sterilizing immunity’. This means that vaccinated individuals can still get infected with SARS-CoV-2, potentially become ill, and potentially transmit the virus to others.”(5)

At this stage, we should all know that not only do the mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines not prevent hospitalization or death but that vaccine adverse event reporting systems around the world are showing higher rates of mortality for these mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines than for any other vaccines in history. Looking at the US VAERS, the UK Yellow Card, and the World Health Organization VigiAccess systems, in less than three years more vaccine injuries have been reported in connection with the COVID-19 vaccines than from the combined sum of all other vaccines administered over the past three decades.

Once upon a time, members of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC might have believed there were adequate scientific grounds for promoting the mRNA COVID-19 genetic vaccines as safe and effective. Now, however, it has been made abundantly clear, and that for a good long time already, that no such grounds exist. With over 35,000 COVID-19 vaccine deaths and over 2,400,000 adverse events reported in the US VAERS alone, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC should be pulling out their bullhorns and shouting from the rooftops: “these genetic vaccines are NOT safe, and they are NOT effective!” Instead, the College has prohibited physicians from expressing concerns about the safety and efficacy of these genetic vaccines on the grounds that to express such concerns puts people at risk by encouraging vaccine hesitancy. It appears patently obvious, however, that when we set about administering any new treatment, it is precisely by prohibiting physicians from sharing their opinions—as qualified, experienced, and ethically conscientious medical professionals—that we put people at risk.

The College’s disciplinary actions clearly prohibit or impair not just those targeted, but all physicians from carrying out their professional and ethical duties to ensure provision of individualized health care which includes providing information, specialized knowledge and careful advice about the risks and benefits of recommended medical products and about alternative treatments. The disciplinary actions by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC also violate our physicians’ protected rights including rights to: work and earn income as physicians; due process; remedies for rights violations; freedom of expression; and their right to participate in governance and decision making.

All of these rights, which the BC College is violating through their autocratic disciplinary actions, are protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Now, discussions of Charter rights and freedoms tend to be inconclusive, because it is difficult, on the basis of the Charter alone, to reach a useful end or stable determination. There is a simple reason for this. From a legal perspective, the Canadian Charter is a weak constitutional document. It is weak in the sense that it does not, on its own, provide clear and definitive guidance on the general matters with which it is concerned. This does not mean, however, that no such guidance is possible. On the contrary, the relatively weak guidance provided by the Charter can be reinforced through reference to another body of law.

It is important, and also very helpful, to recognize that the Canadian Charter can and should be interpreted in accordance with the many international human rights treaties signed by Canada. When it comes to compliance with treaty obligations, one might say the entire world is watching; or to quote from section 8 of the Canadian “Policy on Tabling of Treaties in Parliament”, “Under international law, a treaty creates international legal obligations for Canada.”

By referring to international human rights treaty law it is possible to throw much needed light on some of the more obscure, ambivalent, and vague sections of the Charter. Our physicians’ rights—the rights which are being violated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC—are protected under the Charter and they are further protected under international human rights law treaties to which Canada is a party. The guidance these treaties provide is definitive and clear and the protection they provide is unquestionable—for these treaties are binding upon Canada. These include, but are not limited to, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

In addition to stripping physicians of Charter rights and freedoms, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s disciplinary proceedings also deprive patients of their essential rights to informed consent to medical treatment, freedom from coercion or force to accept a medical treatment not voluntarily chosen, and freedom from non-consensual medical or scientific experimentation. As ought to be widely known, these last two rights are absolute. They cannot be restricted under any circumstances, including those pertaining to public health emergencies. These laws are, in fact, part of the peremptory right to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In addition, the illegitimate disciplinary actions undertaken by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC have had a chilling effect on non-targeted BC physicians whose silent acquiescence to harmful covid mandates has likely harmed hundreds of thousands of patients in this province alone. This is not an abstract issue that only concerns lawmakers and stuffy bureaucrats; it is a deeply personal crisis that affects Canadians living in major metropolitan centres across the country as surely as it reaches into the heart of rural townships throughout the Southern, Interior and Northern reaches of B.C.

“It is no great stretch to imagine that many of those who have lost loved ones subsequent to vaccination, and a great many more who have been injured, are now calling out for justice. Far from wishing to see BC doctors punished for speaking out, a great many of these might wish to see the Colleges rebuked and disciplined—if not dismantled—for prohibiting their doctors from providing them with the responsible medical counsel required to make properly informed risk benefit analyses. By effectively muzzling BC physicians, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has deprived British Columbians of their legal right to informed consent. This, in turn, has led to an inevitable desire for justice among the vaccine injured and bereaved.”

It is no great stretch to imagine that many of those who have lost loved ones subsequent to vaccination, and a great many more who have been injured, are now calling out for justice. Far from wishing to see BC doctors punished for speaking out, a great many of these might wish to see the Colleges rebuked and disciplined—if not dismantled—for prohibiting their doctors from providing them with the responsible medical counsel required to make properly informed risk benefit analyses. By effectively muzzling BC physicians, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has deprived British Columbians of their legal right to informed consent. This, in turn, has led to an inevitable desire for justice among the vaccine injured and bereaved.

The broader legal context and consequences of the BC College’s autocratic policies and punitive actions against Doctors Hoffe, Malthouse, Nagase, and Sclater are of enormous importance. With the College’s persecutory proceedings against these physicians, we are witness to non-consensual and arbitrary imposition of orders, arbitrary punishment, and arbitrary withdrawal of privileges. This is not only contrary to the Spirit of the law in Canada—it is an outright attack on Canadians’ most fundamental participatory and democratic societal values. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has dealt a terrible blow to doctors’ freedom to practice ethical medicine in the province of British Columbia. If the College’s arbitrary punishment of Doctors Hoffe, Malthouse, Nagase, and Sclater is allowed to stand, it will set a precedent that threatens the constitutionally protected societal values of all Canadians, while destroying the right to provide and receive personalized healthcare in BC. If these doctors’ ethical actions on behalf of their patients are not vindicated, it will hamper the ability of all BC doctors to provide honest and informed consultations that are in the best interests of their patients, because these doctors, in turn, will fear that their own ability to practice medicine may be threatened if they do so.

In closing this discussion of ethical medicine and the ill-advisement of autocratic authority in matters of public safety, it may be helpful to remind ourselves of a fundamental principle of human rights recognized the world over: health professionals are under a legal obligation “to document and report torture and ill-treatment in all contexts(6).”

Declaring a pandemic does not mean that authorities and health professionals no longer need to respect the rule of law and the rights and freedoms of individuals. On the contrary, even if a domestic law were to be changed, it cannot be used as an excuse to suspend rights guaranteed under treaties signed by Canada.

Highly qualified and ethically conscientious medical practitioners, doctors willing to risk their own livelihoods in order to advocate for the well-being of their patients, are a precious commodity. When doctors have science-based concerns about potential harms to their patients, they must be not only allowed, but encouraged to speak out. To punitively restrict and silence doctors, to prevent them from acting according to their conscience, to prevent them from fulfilling their fiduciary duty towards their patients is recklessly poor policy. In light of the above, and in compliance with its statutory and ethical duty to the people of this province, I urge the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC to immediately withdraw all proceedings against Doctors Hoffe, Malthouse, Nagase, and Sclater. I further urge the College to take whatever measures are necessary to enable these doctors’ return to practicing medicine. The value of these doctors’ principled stand against the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC’s autocratic imposition of ill-advised public-health policy cannot be overstated. Exemplary embodiments of the spirit of ethical medicine and social responsibility, these physicians are to be applauded for the tremendous efforts they have made on behalf of all British Columbians.


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Contact: Dr. Cockle dr.evans.cockle@gmail.com


Footnotes:

1 An overview of the current state of research on ivermectin use in the treatment of COVID-19: https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Oldfield-Ivermectin-Treatment-of-COVID-19.pdf

2 Bryant, Andrew MSc1,*; Lawrie, Theresa A. MBBCh, PhD2; Dowswell, Therese PhD2; Fordham, Edmund J. PhD2; Mitchell, Scott MBChB, MRCS3; Hill, Sarah R. PhD1; Tham, Tony C. MD, FRCP4. Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines. American Journal of Therapeutics 28(4):p e434-e460, July/August 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001402

3 Kory, P., Meduri, G.U., Iglesias, J., Varon, J., Berkowitz, K., Kornfeld, H., . . . Marik, P.E. (2021). Review of the emerging evidence demonstrating the efficacy of ivermectin in the prophylaxis and treatment of COVID-19. Am J Therapeutic. 28, 299-318. Retrieved from https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Fulltext/2021/06000/Review_of_the_Emerg ing_Evidence_Demonstrating_the.4.aspx?WT.mc_id=HPxADx20100319xMP

4 https://www.audacy.com/kmox/news/national/cdc-director-says-vaccines-are-not-preventing-transmission

5 https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-06-15-Children-and-COVID-19-Vaccines-full-guide_-FINAL.pdf (page 29).

6 …based on the obligation of States under international law, as well as the ethical obligations of health professionals.” (see the Istanbul Protocol – Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, June 2022 Edition at para. 603)

Bill 36: Destroying Healthcare in BC. by Dr. Charles Hoffe

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[EDITOR’S NOTE: One of British Columbia’s foremost medical sentinels, Dr. Charles Hoffe, MD, a man of great courage, dedication and integrity, has been in the trenches on the front line of the Covid-19 disinformation war since April of 2021 when he first alerted the general public to the dangers of the vaccine the NDP government of John Hogan had mandated for Health Care Workers and the citizens of the province.

Since going public Dr. Hoffe has been put through the wringer by the NDP government, Dr. Bonnie Henry, the Interior Health Authority, the Mainstream Media across Canada, and, of late, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC for having spoken out about the dangers of what has now become known euphemistically as “the Jab”.

As the good doctor waits to hear whether the planned hearing by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. will go ahead he continues to speak out on public forums and rallies and video interviews informing the public about B.C.’s Health Care System. The following article deals specifically with the draconian legislation contained in the current NDP government’s Bill 36. It’s information that every citizen of the province and the nation should be cognizant of if they’re concerned about the future of their own health and the health of coming generations.

I would ask that readers do their very best to help spread the message Dr. Hoffe presents in his article to their friends, family, politicians and every social media platform they can access. He needs our support more than ever now and one thing is certain – he deserves it!]

Bill 36: Destroying Healthcare in BC.
Another triumph for medical tyranny,
And another nail in the coffin of healthcare in British Columbia.

By Charles Hoffe, MD

One year ago, the truckers drove to Ottawa with the historic Freedom Convoy. They were protesting against the tyrannical, unethical and illogical public health legislation. Unvaxxed truckers were being forced to quarantine for 14 days whenever they crossed the US border.

These were the grievances of the truckers:

  1. Mandating a vaccine that does not stop the spread of the disease is completely illogical. If the shots don’t stop you getting Covid, and they don’t stop you spreading Covid, then they cannot possibly keep anyone else safe. So the mandates were completely senseless.
  2. Restricting travel to stop the spread of the virus that was already on both sides of the border was completely senseless.
  3. Forcing people to have a medical treatment that they did not want, is illegal in Canada. (Supreme court decision 1980)

So clearly, the vaxx mandates are not based on either science, logic or truth. They are simply just about tyrannical control.

The truckers went to Ottawa to protest against this tyranny, the massive government over-reach and these violations of our constitutional rights.

And the response of the Trudeau government was not to engage in dialogue as one would expect in any democratic society. But instead they responded with violence and force. The response to the protest against government tyranny and massive government over-reach, was even more tyranny and massive government over-reach.

The response of the government completely validated the entire freedom protest by demonstrating to all the world exactly what the protesters were complaining about.

During the course of the last year there have been numerous medical tyranny protests, three of which have been outside the offices of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. I and other doctors pleaded with the public health authorities to return to the ethical practice of medicine.

• It is never acceptable for anybody to be forced to have a medical treatment that they do not want.

• It is never acceptable to conceal evidence of harm from a medical treatment.

• It is never acceptable to withhold medical treatment from people with a life-threatening infectious disease as they have done with Covid by blocking the prescription of ivermectin.

The mandate of public health, is to protect the public. And the mandate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons is to protect the public from the unethical and illegal practice of medicine. Every doctor in Canada is held accountable to the Code of Ethics of the Canadian Medical Association. Yet, our public health doctors across the country have violated it, their own code of ethics, and threatened retribution upon any who disagreed.

So, just as the Trudeau government responded to the protest against tyranny, with even more tyranny, exactly the same has happened in British Columbia. Bill 36 is, to the doctors of BC, what Trudeau’s commissars were to the freedom protesters in Ottawa. Another tyrannical act to crush dissent.

“We have a crisis of moral integrity in the leadership of this country.”

The response of our medical leaders to our protests against medical tyranny was even more medical tyranny. Bill 36 demonstrates exactly what we have been protesting about. We have a crisis of moral integrity in the leadership of this country.

And we have a crisis of healthcare in British Columbia because our public health leaders chose to fire 2500 healthcare workers in BC who refused to get the ineffective vaccine. Firing healthcare workers in a pandemic is beyond stupidity. And firing them for refusing to take a medical treatment that cannot keep anybody safe is even more stupid.

How can firing healthcare workers in a pandemic possibly align with their mandate to provide healthcare?

“There are one million people in British Columbia who have no family doctor.“

There are one million people in British Columbia who have no family doctor. I constantly have new requests to take on more patients. People are desperate. Rural emergency rooms across the province are recurrently closed due to the lack of doctors, and surgical wait lists grow ever longer. Meanwhile, vax-free doctors are not allowed to work in the hospitals under these absurd and illogical public health policies.

So, this seems to be a planned demolition of healthcare in BC. This is a fabricated crisis.

“So, this seems to be a planned demolition of healthcare in BC. This is a fabricated crisis.”

Bill 36 is yet another nail in the coffin of healthcare in British Columbia and the response to our protests against medical tyranny was only more of the same tyranny. In truth Bill 36 is medical tyranny on steroids!

Just to give you a quick glimpse of the absurd violations of medical ethics and our constitutional rights these are the high points of Bill 36:

  1. Bill 36 gives the medical colleges the right to mandate any vaccine, at any time, as a licensing requirement in BC. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 1980 that informed consent is required by law. So forced injections are never legal. Yet the college now has the legal mandate from Bill 36 to forcibly inject any healthcare practitioner against their will as a licensing requirement.

So for the benefit of our medical leaders who do not understand either the law, nor medical ethics, I wish to say the following:

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms begins with the sentence: “Whereas, Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law;”

For those who do not understand the supremacy of God, let me say this: Your body, just like every other created thing in the universe, was created by Almighty God. God gave your body to you to possess for the duration of your life on Earth. Therefore, your body belongs to you. It does not belong to the government. It does not belong to your employer. It does not belong to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, or anyone else.

“Your body belongs to you, and no one else has the right to do anything to your body that you do not want. Forced injections are a violation and a desecration of your personhood. I have met so many people who are victims of forced vaccination who went to their vaccine appointment with trembling and tears knowing that they were being violated and desecrated. They were being forced to receive an experimental gene therapy injection that they did not want, they did not trust, and they did not need. They felt like they were being raped.”

Your body belongs to you, and no one else has the right to do anything to your body that you do not want. Forced injections are a violation and a desecration of your personhood. I have met so many people who are victims of forced vaccination who went to their vaccine appointment with trembling and tears knowing that they were being violated and desecrated. They were being forced to receive an experimental gene therapy injection that they did not want, they did not trust, and they did not need. They felt like they were being raped.

When the government demands to inject things into you that you do not want they are claiming jurisdiction over your own body. Forced injections are tantamount to rape. They are a violation of your God ordained personhood and your human rights. The code of ethics of the Canadian medical Association enshrines the principle of patient bodily autonomy. Bill 36 violates of this code of ethics. And the fact that our public health authorities do not understand this foundational principle of medical ethics is deeply concerning.

When you have to submit to forced injections to be able to work, you are no longer your own person, you have been bought with a price. You have been bought for the price of your paycheque or your freedom. You are a slave. And your slave master will control what you can do, where you can go and for how long. And if, at any time, you rebel against your slave master your ability to work or travel will be revoked. That is why you are a slave.

  1. Bill 36 threatens any healthcare practitioner who they consider to be guilty of the crime of “misinformation” with a $200,000 fine and/or six months in jail. This is a violation of our constitutional right to freedom of speech but worse than that it shows a profound misinterpretation and revisionism of the very nature of science itself. Just as freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy, scientific debate is the lifeblood of science. The facts of science and medicine are never settled.

Science and medicine are always a work in progress. Without scientific debate science cannot progress. The “facts” are always evolving. Anyone who has the most basic understanding of science, will know that the concept of scientific misinformation is an oxymoron.

Back in the 16th century the mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) proposed that the sun was stationary in the centre of the universe and that the earth revolved around it.

Later, in the same century, a brilliant scientist called Galileo (1564-1624) also supported Copernicus’s theory. His views, of course, deviated from the accepted views of the scientific community. This was considered to be dangerous misinformation. He wasn’t given a $200,000 fine but was put under investigation, given a gag order and placed under house arrest in order to protect the public from this “dangerous misinformation”.

Science and medicine are always a work in progress. The concept of scientific misinformation, is an oxymoron, simply because we cannot know what we do not know. The absolutes of science are provisional at best for this very reason.

So when Bill 36 threatens doctors with jail time and crushing fines for daring to disagree with an unscientific and illogical public health policy this is tantamount to a denial of reason itself and constitutes what would best be described as a totalitarian, dictatorial reaction to medical common sense. It is not about health; it is not about science; and it is not about safety. It’s all about government control over every aspect of a person’s medical well being and that is why it boils down to nothing else but medical tyranny.

Pasteur was ridiculed for years, for his theory that germs cause disease. And Semmelweiss was treated like an outcast for trying to persuade surgeons to wash their hands and sterilize their instruments. These doctors were considered to be spreading misinformation, and were punished for it. History repeats itself.

Our Public health policy is going from bad to worse and that is why we are now in a healthcare crisis; one that has arisen from extremely misguided healthcare policy.

Informed consent and the concept of patient bodily autonomy is the bedrock of medical ethics and yet those ethical healthcare professionals who hold to these principles have been fired from their jobs for refusing the jab, thus creating a health-care crisis that has put the public at risk.

In Conclusion:

So what are BC’s health authorities planning to do about this dire situation? Are they sitting down with the anti-vax medical practitioners to work out an amiable solution to the issue? No, they certainly are not. Instead the health authorities are trying to attract foreign healthcare workers to fill the void.

But what healthcare worker in their right mind would ever move to BC with the knowledge that they have to relinquish autonomy over their own body to the state and be injected with whatever the state chooses, as a condition of employment?

And what healthcare worker in their right mind would move to BC with the threat of jail time and/or a $200,000 fine for saying anything with which the government disagrees?

Furthermore, Bill 36 is driving even more BC doctors into retirement as they are simply unwilling to work under this draconian legislation. This is the last straw.

So, Bill 36 is the final nail in the coffin of BC healthcare and the ethical practice of medicine in BC. It is also another nail in the coffin of our democratic society where freedom of speech and scientific debate are now no longer tolerated in the medical community.

Bill 36 detrimentally impacts every patient and every healthcare professional in BC who are all victims of this misguided, unethical and illegal legislation.

It is time that a public health policy was drafted by people who understand democracy, the scientific process and most important of all, medical ethics. We have a crisis of moral integrity in our leadership and the people of Canada deserve better.

Dr Charles D. Hoffe, MD
20 February, 2023

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Hearing of BC Doctor Who Spoke Out Against COVID Protocols Postponed by Regulatory College

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A sign for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic run by Vancouver Coastal Health in Richmond, B.C., on April 10, 2021. (The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward)
By Jeff Sandes
February 12, 2023Updated: February 12, 2023

[Editor’s Note: It’s with great relief that news of Dr. Hoffe’s hearing before the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has been postponed and I want to thank all the good folks across the nation who were so conscientiously quick in firing off letters of support for Charles Hoffe to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. BIG THANKS also to Jeff Sandes and the Epoch Times for running his story.

Please note that the images in the body of the article and any urls attached to them are mine and not those of Epoch Times.]

Hearing of BC Doctor Who Spoke Out Against
COVID Protocols Postponed by Regulatory College

By Jeff Sandes

The first doctor in British Columbia to face a disciplinary hearing in front of the province’s College of Physicians and Surgeons related to COVID-19 protocol has had his review postponed.

Lytton, B.C. before the fire

Dr. Charles Hoffe from Lytton, B.C., was scheduled to begin his 10-day hearing before a college discipline committee panel on Feb. 13, but his lawyer, who spent several weeks in hospital recently, had applied multiple times to postpone the hearing so he could prepare. After a case conference on Feb. 7 and 8, the panel notified Hoffe and his lawyer of the adjournment on Feb. 9. A new date for his hearing has not yet been publicly announced.

Hoffe says he’s relieved.

“We initially asked for this adjournment seven and a half weeks ago, but the college was so reluctant to give it that they’ve literally approved it four days before the trial starts,” he told The Epoch Times.

“Clearly, they have done this with great reluctance. But you know, time and truth go hand in hand, and with every passing week, more and more scientific evidence validates everything they have accused me of, showing they are wrong. So they clearly need to drop all of these absurd charges against me and all of the other doctors, and they need to go back to [being] the guardians of medical ethics, which is what they’re supposed to be.”

The citation listed three examples, with more left unnamed. Hoffe is accused of recommending ivermectin as a treatment for COVID and where to get it without a prescription; saying COVID vaccines can cause harm including neurological injuries, female infertility, and even death not recognized by public health; and expressing that vaccinated people can cause harm to those who remain vaccine free.

Support

Many of Hoffe’s supporters wrote to the college in recent weeks to show their opposition to any disciplinary action against Hoffe.

In a citation issued to Hoffe in February 2022, the college alleged he “contravened standards imposed under the Health Professions Act, including but not limited to the Canadian Medical Association’s Code of Ethics and Professionalism by publishing statements on social media and other digital platforms that were misleading, incorrect or inflammatory about vaccinations, treatments, and public measure relating to COVID-19.”

Former police officer Ivan DeSilva used to work with the college when he was a detective with the Vancouver Police Department’s Sex Crimes and Child Abuse units, handling many of their investigations.

DeSilva now hosts his “A Biblical Frame” podcast. He has interviewed Hoffe on his podcast, having previously met him, and as a supporter he wrote a letter to the college speaking to Hoffe’s professionalism and integrity.

See article HERE

He says the college now operates with a different mandate than when he was with the Vancouver Police Department.

“When I wrote this letter, I basically said there was a time when I worked with the college and their investigative body and saw how they did their investigations,” DeSilva said in an interview. “I developed respect for them, and it is out of that sense of high regard for them that I’m surprised that they’re taking this approach with Dr. Hoffe because it doesn’t seem to gel with the college I knew.”

Now he says he wonders whether the college has “become another political tool of the government.”

DeSilva says the recent passing of Bill 36, the Health Professions and Occupations Act, suggests to him the B.C. government is looking to replace medical professionals in the province’s colleges with government bureaucrats, which could compromise their integrity.

The Epoch Times reached out to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia but did not receive a reply.

Controversy

Hoffe created controversy in April 2021 when he wrote an open letter to B.C. Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry describing the severe adverse events some of his patients were experiencing after receiving the COVID vaccines, and asking whether the province should reconsider the rollout.

See Cariboosentinel article HERE

“In our small community of Lytton, BC, we have one person dead, and three people who look as though they will be permanently disabled, following their first dose of the Moderna vaccine. The age of those affected ranges from 38 to 82 years of age,” he wrote.

Before writing the letter, Hoffe had been censored from communicating with other doctors about side effects and the person he was told to direct all of his questions to at Interior Health ignored his repeated requests to address his concerns, he says. He was banned from working in provincial hospitals and all of his submissions of vaccine adverse events were overturned and deemed to be coincidence.

See Cariboosentinel article HERE

Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Brian Peckford also wrote to the college in support of Hoffe and highlighted its lack of adherence to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a document he helped create.

“I urge you to abandon your present course and permit Dr. Hoffe to continue his excellent medical practice providing care in freedom, valuing the right of the person and in practicing the principle of doing no harm,” Peckford wrote.

“May I remind you of the Charter provision of ‘life, liberty and security of the person.’ This is in Canada’s most important document, our Constitution.”

The Epoch Times contacted the B.C. Ministry of Health asking about oversight of the college and whether provisions in Bill 36 were designed to provide additional protections to the college or its members, but did not receive a response by press time.

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The Sandra White Story

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[Editor’s Note: There are countless stories which the controlled mainstream media will never cover that concern the lives of individuals who, in one way or another, have been adversely affected by the ongoing repercussions arising from the Covid-19 scamdemic of 2020. It’s my intention to cover as many of them as possible on the Cariboo Sentinel site.

Sandra White’s story is likely typical of so many of BC’s registered nurses who were treated with the utmost disrespect by BC’s NDP government back in 2020 then under the leadership of Premier John Horgan. Horgan and his fellow criminal colleagues Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia Provincial Health Officer and Adrian Dix, BC Minister of Health comprised the trinity of tricksters involved in enforcing the mandates prescribed by the commie World Health Organization.

Should anyone with a story to tell that would be appropriate for The Covid Files please contact the editor at editorcs@nym.hush.com ]

The Sandra White Story

Sandra White RN, BSN

I am a registered nurse in the province of British Columbia still practicing and vaccinated with Johnson and Johnson. I believe what I learned in nurses training that you always give a patient a choice in deciding what treatment they want and provide them with all the information on the risks involved. And I know the old adage of ‘do no harm’ is a mantra most of my colleagues do go by.

As a Registered Nurse I resisted all the vaccines at first because I felt there wasn’t sufficient data and time spent by the pharmaceutical companies to determine whether the immunity was working against the virus or if/what the side effects might be. Did they have any or enough human subjects they tested them on?

As a result, I was terminated like so many of my counter parts but soon broke down and took the J and J vaccine in order to work in my profession again. Because BC only ordered a small supply of J and J and late in the game so far I am okay and have taken time to take Glutathione and N-Acetycystein tabs to counter the effects of the spike protein.

The company I work for did hire me back after I got my J and J vaccine but my partner, who worked as a Wheelchair/Maintenance Technician for Vancouver Coastal Health for over 18 years full time also was terminated because of the mandates. He has had endocarditis and was scared to take the mRNA vaccine because of the myocarditis it could cause.

Even thought Dr. Bonnie Henry stated openly she was going to set up two committees: one to look at any and all medical exemptions for the vaccine and the other for religious reasons, this NEVER came to fruition.

As it happened, my partner, Cory and myself actually had our Johnson and Johnson vaccine booked with the Vancouver Coastal Health travel clinic a few days before the deadline but suddenly the floods came in the Chilliwack, Abbotsford area and there was a land slide in the Agassiz area. My house is in Harrison Mills and we were not allowed to leave the area for almost two weeks until they found alternate routes for people to use only for emergency supplies.

As a result, which was no fault of our own, we missed the mandate deadline and subsequently were terminated of our health care positions. My private health care company did re-hire me back once I was able to travel out to get the vax but the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority never did take this situation in consideration for Cory or me and they let him go.

Cory’s union, after a WHOLE YEAR, finally managed to get him hired back on as casual even though before he was full time but since there are no casual positions available which he could apply for he has had no work since with them yet he is on their books as a casual employee. What a bad joke that is! He only recently got a casual job driving for Handi dart. If I had not been re-hired back by my company we would both be eating out of a dumpster by now.

If the health authorities are so short in staff, which they claim, then why wouldn’t they hire people back to their former positions who got vaccinated late? There are also many well trained, unvaccinated nurses who worked before the mandates. They all used Personal Protective Wear and never got sick with Covid and also would NOT need any orientation who are waiting to return to their jobs but no, the province would rather hire international nurses from out of Canada and adjust the College regulations to help them get started.

So it’s all so easy now to see how much of a scam it all is. I would laugh if it were not so sad.

As for Dr. Hoffe I heard about him some time back. I did email him around the time he was about to meet with Dr. Bonnie Henry and others on some panel they had. [Editor’s Note: The meeting had been arranged by Dr. Bonnie Henry back in April of 2021 after she read Dr. Hoffe’s Open Letter and much to his surprise she contacted Dr. Hoffe informing him that she’d made arrangements for him to speak with a vaccine “specialist”. The results of that meeting were published on the Cariboo Sentinel site on April 16, 2021 and can be read HERE.]

He indicated he was going to present them with concerns he had with his patients who had experienced neurological deficits that appeared to be related to post vaccination. I emailed Dr. Hoffe again about a week later asking how the discussion went and I told Dr. Hoffe if responding to me were to put him at risk because of confidentiality I would understand if he could not reply. He did not reply.

Pfizer has finally come clean to some extent about some side effects their vaccine has caused. The myocarditis for sure is one and the clotting issues appear to be another. Dr. Hoffe, in his online post, has openly stated he is simply, “a country Doctor” and sought out expert opinions from scientific and learned medical professionals before he made any open statements concerning the mRNA vaccines. He simply warned people about the potential side effects and what the spike protein appears to be causing by its nature/structure in the human body. I do not recall him ever stating that no one should take the old-style vaccines. His main concern was with what the BC government was pushing and that was the mRNA vaccines. Not once did I hear Dr. Hoffe tell me or anyone else not to take the Johnson and Johnson vector routine vaccine in order to gain some immunity from the so-called Corona virus.

Dr. Hoffe was simply doing his job as a family physician. All the clients he saw who had voluntarily taken the vaccines (mRNA) came to him looking for answers to why they were experiencing neurological and other deficits and he saw a pattern and a trend and he took the necessary steps to approach Dr. Henry and her team of advisors with his concerns. If he truly were reckless he would not have taken the time to do that.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC is being punitive and ego-centric in their approach which, unfortunately, many nurses still have to put up. We are short of physicians as we are nurses in this province and the college’s ongoing efforts to have this compassionate Doctor convicted and jailed is nothing short of using Orwellian tactics in order to make an example of him and strike fear in the minds of other physicians and healthcare workers. Their actions are simply political and not based on science.

If the College gave a damn about the people of BC they would consider the developments that have arisen since the roll out of the vaccines (the science) and realize that Dr. Hoffe was simply a concerned physician about the benefits and well-being of his patients. The Covid 19 virus will continue to mutate over time and there’s hope herd immunity will take its course. It’s too bad that the College is not spending more time on trying to ban gain of function studies in the world that are being used as bioweapons instead. I feel that we need to just tell the College to ‘get over it’ and leave this man alone so that he can get back to what he does best – be a good country Doctor who cares about his patients.

Contact Sandra White at: sandrawhitebsn@hotmail.com

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