Thousands of unemployed doctors and nurses across British Columbia are finally having their day in court.
Once hailed as heroes, they have been unable to work in BC hospitals and other public healthcare facilities for over 2 years now, as they refuse to subject themselves to the Covid-19 experimental injections that the provincial government continues to mandate for them.
The Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine (CSSEM) is currently having their judicial review case heard in the BC Supreme Court, as they directly challenge the BC government’s ongoing mandate that makes it the last province in Canada, and one of the only jurisdictions in the entire world to still have such restrictions in place.
The senior lawyer representing the CSSEM group explained to the court this week that Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry’s injection mandate is not only nonsensical, but that she in fact contradicts herself multiple times.
For example, he pointed out to the presiding judge how Bonnie Henry is continuing to promote the Covid-19 boosters because she is on record saying that the original two injections from 2021 are obsolete and provide no protection, yet these are the very same two injections that she is continuing to mandate to the doctors and nurses before they can return back to their work. She also stated on record in early 2022 that Covid-19 was no longer an emergency and should be treated just like influenza and other similar respiratory illnesses, yet uses her “emergency powers” to keep the mandate in place because otherwise it would be illegal to enforce in our current non-emergency situation.
In a more in-depth interview from last month, one of the doctors involved in the CSSEM case told his story of how the injection mandate pushed him into early retirement away from his 30+ year medical career both as a vascular surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and as a professor who taught at UBC med school. He also explained how thousands of doctors and nurses who took early retirement like himself, transferred into private healthcare practice, or left the province in order to continue working, are not counted in the official government statistics of healthcare workers who were removed from BC’s overburdened and understaffed healthcare system.
Despite having little to no media coverage, this legal case is shaping up to be one of the most important ones occurring within Canadian healthcare. The outcome will determine what direction the province goes, with a long-lasting impact on the health and well-being of every British Columbian, whether they are a healthcare worker, patient, or general member of the public.
The judicial review is scheduled for 10 days of hearings in the BC Supreme Court. More details about the case can be found on the CSSEM website.
