Welcome to the third and final post in our three-part, 12-section series The Charter’s Blind Spot. In this installment, we bring together everything uncovered in the first two posts — the legal, structural, and moral failures that allowed governments, institutions, and courts to evade Charter accountability during one of the most consequential periods in modern Canadian history.

Section 5: Delegated Coercion — How Governmental Policy Captured the Medical Profession 5.1 The Mechanism of Delegation Throughout the COVID-19 period, Canadian governments achieved unprecedented control over the practice of medicine without the need for new constitutional powers. The mechanism was deceptively simple: policy by delegation . Federal and provincial executives issued public-health directives; regulatory colleges converted those directives into binding profession

In early 2023, a Canadian woman named Sheila Lewis died — not because a medical treatment failed, but because she was denied access to that treatment under the authority of a government-designed, government-funded, and government-controlled health system. Days later, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to even hear her case. Around the same time, an Ontario man named Garnet Harper died after being refused a kidney transplant for similar reasons.

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