Bill 36 is Province of B.C. legislation to transfer regulation of medical professions to appointed boards. Previously they were elected from within.
This bill also makes it possible to force medications/inoculations as a requirement of licensing.
Thank you to Shirley Bond, Mike Morris and John Rustad, the Northern B.C. MLAs who voted against this bill, which passed third reading at the end of November before all of its articles could be debated.
This bill puts direction of our medical care in the hands of politicians to whom their appointees are beholden, taking it out of the hands of qualified experts in medical fields.
With mandates, we lost 2,500 health care workers. How many more do they hope to lose with this legislation? Will there then be a network developed for alternate medicine and how would this look?
I don’t know what the agenda of the NDP in our province is. It is not transparent at all. They certainly do not care about our health over their political agendas. If the government had been out in the open with this bill, do you not think that there would have been a much bigger ruckus over it?
I ask that you stand with our local MLAs and write to Health Minister Adrian Dix and Premier David Eby asking them to repeal this bill. I understand that if there’s sufficient opposition, they must reopen the debate.
Dorothy Reimer
Prince George
