CPSO commands Ontario's doctors not to make any statements that might be considered anti-vaccine, anti-masking, anti-distancing, or anti-lockdown. It forbids them to promote "unsupported, unproven" treatments for COVID-19. (Unproven by what standards? CPSO doesn't say.) Doctors are further forbidden to make comments that might encourage people to act contrary to public health orders.

Finally, there's a naked threat: say the wrong thing and you'll face "disciplinary action". This translates into, "We'll suspend your licence, cut off your income stream and impoverish you."

This is a horrifying statement from both a medical and a legal perspective.

A courageous group of doctors calling themselves Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth quickly pushed back with this online Declaration. As I write this, 548 doctors and 14,487 concerned citizens have already signed it.