The applicant, a family physician, sought judicial review of a decision by the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board confirming a remedial caution issued by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
The caution related to public statements the applicant made objecting to her church's COVID-19 communion protocols, in which she identified herself as a physician.
The applicant argued the decisions failed to reasonably balance her Charter right to religious expression under the Doré framework.
The Divisional Court dismissed the application, finding the screening committee reasonably balanced its statutory mandate to protect the public with the applicant's Charter rights, noting she was not precluded from expressing religious views, but cautioned on identifying herself as a physician when doing so.