The statutory regulator of traditional Chinese medicine in Ontario sought interim and interlocutory injunctions restraining several corporate and individual respondents from falsely holding themselves out as statutory regulators and from engaging in the unauthorized practice of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
The evidence demonstrated that the corporate respondents operated a registration and certification scheme that purported to authorize practitioners and used names and representations suggesting statutory authority.
The court found breaches of s. 34 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 and other provisions governing protected titles and controlled acts.
Applying the statutory injunction framework under s. 87 of the Health Professions Procedural Code, the court held that proof of continued statutory breach justified interim injunctive relief in the public interest.
The motion for interim and interlocutory injunctions was granted pending the hearing of the application.
