Submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Re: Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code
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	1. 
	Submission 
	of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to the College of Physicians and 
	Surgeons of Ontario regarding the draft policies relating to establishing 
	and ending physician-patient relationships. 14 February, 2008. 
	Accessed 2008-08-31
	2. 
	Submission 
	of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to the College of Physicians and 
	Surgeons of Ontario Regarding the draft policy, "Physicians and the Ontario 
	Human Rights Code." 15 August, 2008. Accessed 3008-08-31
	3. Murphy, Sean,The 
	New Inquisitors. Protection of Conscience Project (31 August, 2008)
	4. Thinking like that illustrated in a controversial guest 
	editorial in the July, 2006 edition of the Canadian Medical 
	Association Journal. Rodgers, Sanda and Downie, Jocelyn, Abortion: 
	ensuring access. CMAJ July 4, 2006; 175 (1) Accessed 2008-09-02
	5. Explaining his decision to participate in an 
	execution by lethal injection, inevitable in view of the law, a nurse asked 
	an interviewer, "Are you, as a doctor, going to let [an untrained layman] 
	stab the inmate for half an hour because of his inexperience? . . . I 
	wasn't. . . If this is to be done correctly, if it is to be done at all, 
	then I am the person to do it." Gawande, Atul, 
	
	When Law and Ethics Collide - Why Physicians Participate in Executions. 
	N Engl J Med 354;12, March 23, 2006, p. 1227. Similarly, a psychiatrist 
	explained his participation in the Nazi euthanasia programme in terms of 
	harm reduction: "taking part in the selections . . . in order to prevent 
	worse things from happening." Lifton, Robert Jay, The Nazi Doctors: Medical 
	Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Basic Books, 1986, p. 112
	6. Zuliani, Preson,
	
	"Doctors do not have to violate beliefs."Ottawa Citizen, 23 
	August, 2008. Accessed 2008-09-01. Responding to Warren, David, "Refusing to 
	do harm." Ottawa Citizen, 20 August 2008.
	7. "We do not expect physicians to provide services that 
	are contrary to their moral or religious beliefs." The e-mail acknowledged 
	that a requirement that physicians may be required to help patients arrange 
	for morally objectionable procedures had "raised concerns from respondents." 
	" E-mail from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 20 August 
	2008
	8. 
	Submission 
	of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to the College of Physicians and 
	Surgeons of Ontario Regarding the draft policy, "Physicians and the Ontario 
	Human Rights Code." 15 August, 2008. Accessed 2008-08-31
	9. "Dr. James Robert Brown, a professor of science and 
	religion at the University of Toronto, said he agrees with prosecuting a 
	doctor with that sort of conflict. "Suppose someone (doctor) said, 'I'm 
	uncomfortable with (treating) a minority,' I'd say, 'So long scum'," said 
	Brown. Brown believes performing abortions and offering other forms of 
	contraception are necessary and if Dawson won't perform them, then, Brown 
	added, 'Fine - just resign from medicine and find another job." "Religious 
	beliefs are highly emotional - as is any belief that is effecting your 
	behaviour in society. You have no right letting your private beliefs effect 
	your public behaviour." Canning, Cheryl,
	"Doctor's faith under scrutiny:Barrie physician won't offer the pill, could 
	lose his licence." The Barrie Examiner, February 21, 2002 
	10. Asoka ascended his father's throne in 269 BC. 
	Time-Life Books, TimeFrame 400 BC - AD 200: Empires Ascendant, p. 
	107-109
	11. More than 900 out of 5,000 Canadian soldiers were 
	killed; nearly 2000 were captured. An example of the carnage: of the Royal 
	Regiment of Canada, half were killed, just 65 of 554 made it back to 
	England, and only 22 of them were unwounded. Readers Digest, The 
	Canadians at War 1939/45. Vol. 1, p. 181, 192.
	12. "Upon landing on the beach under heavy fire he 
	attached himself to the Regimental Aid Post . . . During the subsequent 
	period of approximately eight hours, while the action continued, this 
	officer not only assisted the Regimental Medical Officer in ministering to 
	the wounded . . . but time and again left this shelter to inject morphine, 
	give first-aid and carry wounded personnel from the open beach . . . . On 
	these occasions, with utter disregard for his personal safety, Honorary 
	Captain Foote exposed himself to an inferno of fire and saved many lives by 
	his gallant efforts. . . Honorary Captain Foote continued tirelessly and 
	courageously to carry wounded men from the exposed beach to the cover of the 
	landing craft. He also removed wounded from inside the landing craft when 
	ammunition had been set on fire by enemy shells. When landing craft appeared 
	he carried wounded from the Regimental Aid Post to the landing craft through 
	heavy fire. On several occasions this officer had the opportunity to embark 
	but returned to the beach as his chief concern was the care and evacuation 
	of the wounded. He refused a final opportunity to leave the shore, choosing 
	to suffer the fate of the men he had ministered to for over three years." 
	Citation, as reported in The London Gazette, 14 February, 1946. 
	Reproduced on the website of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry: 
	Hon LCol John Weir 
	Foote, VC, CD. Accessed 2008-09-05
	13. "Realizing the dangerous situation, Scrimger 
	organized the evacuation of the wounded to the rear, but one of his 
	patients, Captain H. F. McDonald, had a serious head wound. Any movement 
	before he was stabilized would likely kill him. Scrimger chose to stay 
	behind. The shells fell around them and then began to land on the farm. The 
	slight, 5-foot-7-inch doctor, who weighed only 148 pounds, shielded 
	McDonald's prone body while he worked over him. During the bombardment, the 
	building was demolished and set on fire, but both Scrimger and McDonald 
	survived the whirling shrapnel and exploding ammunition. Blinded by the 
	smoke and heat of the fire, Scrimger pulled the larger, unconscious infantry 
	officer onto his back and staggered out of the building. German infantry 
	were advancing on the farm and the only escape was to cross the moat to the 
	rear. Lurching to safety with McDonald on his back, Scrimger passed through 
	the barrage, moving from shell hole to shell hole for cover. Hiding in a 
	nearby ditch throughout the rest of the day, they avoided the enemy 
	infantry. Captain McDonald later testified that each time the shells 
	exploded around them, "Captain Scrimger curled himself round my wounded head 
	and shoulder to protect me from the heavy shell fire, at obvious peril to 
	his life. He stayed with me all that time and by good luck was not hit." 
	Canadian War Museum, 
	Backgrounder: 
	Francis Scrimger, V.C. Accessed 2008-09-05
	14. Kingsmill, Suzanne, Francis Scrimger: Beyond the 
	Call of Duty. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, Dundurn 
	Press Ltd., 1991, p. 25. See also 
	
	"The greatest devotion to duty": Dr. Francis Scrimger and his Victoria Cross. 
	McCulloch, I. CMAJ. 1994 February 1; 150(3): 414-416. Accessed 2008-09-0415. 
	Benson, Iain T.,
	
	"There are No Secular 'Unbelievers.'" Centrepoints 7, Vol. 4, No. 
	1, Spring 2000, P. 3.16. For example: "The moral position 
	of an individual pharmacist, if it differs from the ethics of the 
	profession, cannot take precedence over that of the profession as a whole." 
	College of Pharmacists of British Columbia Bulletin, Ethics in Practice: 
	Moral Conflicts in Pharmacy Practice. March/April 2000, Vol. 25, No. 2, 
	P. 5. For further information about the bulletin and related issues, see 
	Project Report 2001-01, College 
	of Pharmacists of British Columbia: Conduct of the Ethics Advisory Committee, 
	26 March, 2001.
	17. One critic outlines the extent of the penetration 
	of bioethics principlism, as defined in the American Belmont Report: "Many 
	colleges and universities already require a course in bioethics in order to 
	graduate, and most medical and nursing schools have incorporated it in their 
	curricula. Bioethics is even being taught now in the high schools. And what 
	is being taught as bioethics are the Belmont principles, or renditions of 
	one or more of these principles as defined in Belmont terms. Nods may be 
	given to 'alternative' propositions here and there, but in the end it is the 
	language of principlism which sets the standards." Irving, Dianne N., 
	
	What is "Bioethics"? (Quid est "Bioethics"?). Tenth Annual 
	Conference: Life and Learning X (in press)University Faculty For Life, 
	Georgetown University,Washington, D.C. () Accessed 2008-09-11
	18. Cromwell, Oliver, "Declaration of the Lord 
	Lieutenant of Ireland." (January, 1649) Carlyle, Thomas, Oliver 
	Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with elucidations. Boston: Estes and 
	Lauriat, 1886, Vol. I, Part 5, p. 18.19. Cromwell, Oliver, 
	"Declaration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland." (January, 1649) Carlyle, 
	Thomas, Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with elucidations. 
	Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886, Vol. I, Part 5, p. 18.
	20.
	
	Trinity Western University v. College of Teachers, [2001] 1 S.C.R. 
	772, 2001 SCC 31
	21. A practical observation is that ethical advice 
	"falls squarely into the most contested domain of social and public policy. 
	Rawlsians and feminists; casuists and communitarians: all have their 
	divergent visions of what individuals should find life worth living for, or 
	be willing to live with. And these visions will not always coincide with the 
	wishes of the patient, much less the consensus of society." Shalit, Ruth,"When 
	we Were Philosopher Kings." The New Republic, April 28, 1997. 
	Smith, Wesley J., 
	"Is Bioethics Ethical?" The Weekly Standard, 28 May, 2000.
	22. Richard G. Frey, "The ethics of the search for 
	benefits: Animal experimentation in medicine," in Raanan Gillon (ed.), 
	Principles of Health Care Ethics (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994), 
	pp. 1067-1075; cited in Irving, Dianne N.,
	"Scientific and Philosophical Expertise: An Evaluation of the Arguments on 
	'Personhood'". Linacre Quarterly, February 1993, 60:1:18-46 
	[Updated and extensively revised, September 20, 1996] 
	23. Bleich, Dr. J. David, "Euthanasia", in Judaism 
	and Healing: Halakhic Perspectives (1st Ed.), Ktav Publishing House, 
	1981, p. 139. Essay reprinted in A Matter of Choice: Responsibility to 
	Live, Right to Die - Five Discussion Papers from the Jewish Perspective on 
	Euthanasia. 13 April, 1994, Lubavitch Centre, Vancouver, B.C. (Ethics 
	and Torah forum series) 
	24. "Medical professionalism includes both the 
	relationship between a physician and a patient and a social contract between 
	physicians and society." Canadian Medical Association,
	Policy: medical professionalism. (Update 2005) P. 1 (Accessed 
	2008-09-06)"Professionalism is also the moral understanding among medical 
	practitioners that gives reality to the social contract between medicine and 
	society. This contract in return grants the medical profession a monopoly 
	over the use of its knowledge base, the right to considerable autonomy in 
	practice and the privilege of self-regulation." Canadian Stakeholders 
	Coalition on Medical Professionalism, quoted in Canadian Medical 
	Association: 
	Medical 
	Professionalism (Accessed 2008-09-06)
	
	"Professionalism is the basis of medicine's contract with society."
	"Medical 
	Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter." Annals 
	of Internal Medicine, 5 February 2002 | Volume 136 Issue 3 | Pages 
	243-246 (Accessed 2008-09-06)
	
	"In Canada and the United States the social basis of the extraordinary 
	grant of occupational authority and independence to professionalized 
	occupations such as medicine and law has been a social contract between the 
	profession and the public. Professionalism is the moral understanding among 
	professionals that gives concrete reality to this social contract." 
	Sullivan, William M., 
	Medicine under threat: professionalism and professional identity. 
	CMAJ, March 7, 2000; 162 (5)
	(Accessed 2008-09-06) Similarly, Cruess, Sylvia R. and Cruess, Richard L.,
	Professionalism: a 
	contract between medicine and society. CMAJ 7 March 2000; 162 (5) 
	(Accessed 2008-09-06)
	25. "We also exchanged, or rather subsumed, social 
	contract and morality into a single term, moral contract. 
	It seemed to us that the idea of a moral dimension to medicine was 
	important. It indicated something right and good in relation to the 
	behaviours and actions of a doctor. The ultimate expression of those 
	behaviours and actions is perhaps best summed up in the idea of a contract 
	between the public and the profession - a moral contract. A social contract, 
	while a correct description of the mutual agreement that exists between the 
	public and profession, seemed too neutral a term. We wanted to emphasise an 
	ethical edge to that mutual agreement." Royal College of Physicians Report 
	of a Working Party, 
	
	Doctors in Society: Medical Professionalism in a Changing World.(December, 
	2005), para. 2.15 Accessed 2008-09-06
	26. Latimer, Elizabeth J.,
	Accidental patient. A doctor takes a different view. Can Fam 
	Physician. 2002 August; 48: 1295-1296. (Accessed 2008-09-06). James T.C,
	The Patient-Physician Relationship: Covenant or Contract? Mayo 
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	Philosophy (2nd Ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. p. 17428. 
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	The Duty to Accommodate. (Accessed 2008-09-07)
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	Gyanecol Can, February, 2004; 26(2)112
	30. McInerney v. MacDonald (1992), 93 Dominion 
	Law Reports (4th) 415 (Supreme Court of Canada)
	31. Recalling an earlier case (Canson Enterprises 
	Ltd. v. Boughton & Co. [1991] 3 S.C.R. 534)
	32. Quoting LeBel, J. in Henderson v. Johnston, 
	[1956] O.R. 789 at p. 799
	33. For an analysis of subsequent arguments made by Cook 
	and Dickens on this point, see Murphy, Sean, 
	Postscript for the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada: Morgentaler 
	vs. Professors Cook and Dickens.
	34. Lee, Jenny,"Official 
	slams 'sex selection' blood test: Gender of fetus can be seen five weeks 
	into pregnancy." Vancouver Sun, 13 August, 2005. (Accessed 
	2005-10-10)
	35. Ramsay, Sarah, 
	"Controversy over UK surgeon who amputated healthy limbs". The 
	Lancet, Volume 355, Number 9202, 05 February 2000. (Accessed 2001-10-04) 
	Dr. Smith waived his fee and the patients paid for the surgery. 
	36. Gawande, Atul, 
	
	When law and ethics collide - Why physicians participate in executions. 
	N Engl J Med 354;12 23 March, 2006, 1221-1229. (Accessed 2008-09-08)
	37. American Medical AssociationPolicy 
	E-2.06: Capital Punishment (June, 1998) Accessed 2008-09-06
	38. Gawande, Atul, 
	
	When law and ethics collide - Why physicians participate in executions.
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	Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code, p. 4
	41. Zuliani, Preson,
	
	"Doctors do not have to violate beliefs." Ottawa Citizen, 23 
	August, 2008. Responding to Warren, David, "Refusing to do harm." Ottawa 
	Citizen, 20 August 2008. (Accessed 2008-09-01) Further: "We do not 
	expect physicians to provide services that are contrary to their moral or 
	religious beliefs." E-mail from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
	Ontario, 20 August 2008
	42. 
	Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code, p. 6-7
	43. 
	Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code, p. 5, note 5.
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	45. Alter, Jonathon, "Time to Think About Torture." 
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	46. 
	Maher's Story. 
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	47. Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian 
	Officials in Relation to Maher Arar,
	Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommendations. 
	(hereinafter, "Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations") p. 9. 
	(Accessed 2008-09-0848) 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations, p. 35-36. (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	49. 
	
	Deputy Prime Minister Issues Terms of Reference for the Public Inquiry into 
	the Maher Arar Affair. (Accessed 2008-09-08)
	50. Re: briefing note for RCMP Commissioner 
	Zaccardelli: "Assistant Commissioner Proulx states [in the note] that the 
	RCMP can be considered complicit in Mr. El Maati's detention in Syria. 
	However, Mr. Proulx testified that it was the media and public who would 
	consider the RCMP's actions to be complicit. He did not personally believe 
	that the RCMP was complicit, nor was he referring to complicity in the 
	criminal sense." Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian 
	Officials in Relation to Maher Arar,
	Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Factual Background, Vol. 
	1, (hereinafter "Arar Inquiry: Vol. I") p. 64 (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	51. "The Ambassador did not consider that seeking the 
	fruits of the Syrian interrogation made Canada complicit in obtaining 
	information that might have been the product of torture. He reasoned that he 
	did not ask the Syrians to continue interrogating Mr. Arar so that Canada 
	could obtain information. Furthermore, the Ambassador did not have any 
	evidence that Mr. Arar was being tortured or held incommunicado. 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Vol. I, p. 271. (Accessed 2008-09-08)
	52. "Superintendent Killam was aware that Secretary 
	Powell had given Minister Graham the clear impression that the RCMP was 
	complicit in Mr. Arar's deportation. However, Superintendent Killam 
	testified that, even without making further inquiries in response to the 
	media reports, he was able to exclude the possibility that the allegation of 
	complicity might be true, because the allegation was inconsistent with the 
	RCMP position."Arar 
	Inquiry: Vol. I, p. 299. (Accessed 2008-09-08)
	53. "Mr. Solomon prepared a draft memorandum for the 
	Minister . . .which dealt with the upcoming CSIS trip to Syria and stated . 
	. . "there are concerns as to whether a visit to Arar by Canadian 
	intelligence officials may make Canada appear complicit in his detention and 
	possible poor treatment by Syrian authorities." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Vol. I, p. 309. (Accessed 2008-09-08) 
	"Mr. Livermore testified that the original statement about the 
	reliability of the confession and the possible complicity by Canada if CSIS 
	was to meet with Mr. Arar was "very much on the speculative side" and "it 
	was anticipating something that we later ironed out with CSIS, namely that 
	they would not seek access to Mr. Arar." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Vol. I, p. 310. Accessed 2008-09-08
	54. ". . . the intervenors suggest that the 
	circumstances under which these individuals ended up in Syrian detention 
	raise troubling questions about whether Canadian officials were complicit in 
	their detention. The evidence of what happened to them could possibly show a 
	pattern of misconduct by Canadian officials." 770 Commission of Inquiry into 
	the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, 
	
	Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar: Factual Background, Vol. II, 
	p. 770. (Accessed 2008-09-08)
	55. "Canadian officials did not participate or 
	acquiesce in the American decisions to detain Mr. Arar and remove him to 
	Syria. I have thoroughly reviewed all of the evidence relating to events 
	both before and during Mr. Arar's detention in New York, and there is no 
	evidence that any Canadian authorities - the RCMP, CSIS or others - were 
	complicit in those decisions." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations, p. 29. (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	"Although decisions to interact must be made on a case-by-case basis, 
	they should be made in a way that is politically accountable, and 
	interactions should be strictly controlled to guard against Canadian 
	complicity in human rights abuses or a perception that Canada condones such 
	abuses." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations, p. 35. (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	
	"If it is determined that there is a credible risk that the Canadian 
	interactions would render Canada complicit in torture or create the 
	perception that Canada condones the use of torture, then a decision should 
	be made that no interaction is to take place." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations, p. 199. (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	
	"Even if one were to accept that Canadian officials were somehow 
	complicit in those arrests, that would not change my conclusion, based on 
	the evidence at the Inquiry, that Canadian officials did not participate or 
	acquiesce in the American decision to send Mr. Arar to Syria from the United 
	States." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations, p. 271. (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	
	"Information should never be provided to a foreign country where there is 
	a credible risk that it will cause or contribute to the use of torture. 
	Policies should include specific directions aimed at eliminating any 
	possible Canadian complicity in torture, avoiding the risk of other human 
	rights abuses and ensuring accountability." 
	
	Arar Inquiry: Analysis and Recommendations,p. 345. (Accessed 
	2008-09-08)
	
	"Clearly, the prohibition against torture in the Convention against 
	Torture is absolute. Canada should not inflict torture, nor should it be 
	complicit in the infliction of torture by others." 
	
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