British Columbia Bill C-36 lays the groundwork for mass exodus of qualified healthcare professionals

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

“If a healthcare professional gives misinformation to a patient such as ‘speaking against the vaccines,’ this Bill now implements a duty to report that healthcare professional as a risk to the public.” Adrian Dix (British Columbia Health Official)

As I have evolved as a journalist, I now hold myself, and the journalists that I work with to a certain code of ethics, because we make very important decisions when reporting news to the world. It requires a great civic duty and a devotion to truth, and the Caribbean community depends on us to report the fair truth and to maintain an unbiased opinion. We are the watchdogs of society, and we provide our community with the information necessary to form their own opinions.

There is a lot that happens behind the scenes that get very little media attention if any, and I always wonder why. Decisions made by our world governments affect us in detrimental ways, yet we the public know little about them, and are then forced to abide by these rules without having information to substantiate the reasons for having to abide by these rules.

This week I want to present to the community the highly controversial Bill 36, also known as Health Professions and Occupations Act. If it is passed, it will replace the current Health Professions Act.

British Columbia’s new unelected Premier David Eby and Health Official Adrian Dix are focused on pushing through new legislation, which will bring radical sweeping changes impacting 100,000 of the province’s regulated healthcare workers, and the way their licenses to practice are managed and governed.

Bill 36 will give the BC Minister of Health the ability to appoint College Boards, who are then required to pass bylaws mandating vaccines, and other medical procedures for any illness the government chooses as a condition of license. This has the potential to create an environment of censorship where if you challenge the government’s position on anything you will face discipline and potentially lose your license.

BC Health Minister Adrian Dix claims the new measures would improve patient safety and strengthen jurisdiction over the different regulatory colleges.

Now, I am curious about how misinformation is determined, especially when the information that is deemed, “scientifically sound,” pushes an inoculation that has proved to be highly dangerous and has taken millions of lives all over the world. There are a few doctors who have been ostracized and ridiculed for speaking against the inoculation, and Bill 36 seems to be the solution to silence those doctors who have discovered other ways to strengthen the natural immune system.

Although a Bill like this has not been passed in Ontario, as of yet, doctors are already being punished and silenced for speaking out against the narrative that has been scripted by the Ontario government.

One doctor that comes to mind is Ontario doctor Kulvinder Kaur Gill. In August of 2022 fellow physicians and others criticized her after a series of tweets that they say spread misinformation about COVID-19.

CBC reported on two email complaints about Gill’s tweets, including one by a family doctor to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, which sets regulatory standards for doctors in the province.

One of her tweets, from August 6^th, 2022 stated: “#Humanity’s existing effective defences against #COVID19 to safely return to normal life now includes: -Truth, -T-cell Immunity, -Hydroxychloroquine.”

Another of Gill’s tweets on the same day stated, “There is absolutely no medical or scientific reason for this prolonged, harmful, and illogical lockdown.”

Then there was Dr Simone Gold, who brought up the fact that there might be financial incentive to discredit hydroxychloroquine as a treatment. Both Dr Kulvinder and Dr Simone’s tweets were taken down for violating Twitter rules.

What is interesting here is that there are scientific studies, as well as actual case studies that support the use of Hydroxychloroquine. (Readers if you are interested in reading those, please feel free to reach out to me at simone@carib101.com)

We need to look at the fact that governance is best handled by those with expertise in the areas, those who provide the health solutions directly, not bureaucrats who will act in the best interests of themselves, not the public or professionals. This pandemic has proven that politicians have the power to systematically cripple healthcare under their governance, and if this bill passes, British Columbia will lose more highly skilled and specialized healthcare professionals to other provinces and countries.

The last two years have left society in a highly reactive state. It is time to slow down and be cautious about what we do next, for those in governance and as a society at large.