Action4Canada - October 28, 2022


Ottawa Supreme Court： Dr. Mary O'Conner Fights For Patients' Rights

Hosted by
Tanya Gaw
Mentioned
Mary Roshan Killian Nancy Whitmore Mark Dorsey O'Connor Thurwell Barry
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

164.06

Word count

955

Sentence count

58

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode, we hear from Dr. Mary O'Connor, who lost her case against the College of Addiction and Mental Health. She talks about how she was targeted by the College, and how she fought back.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I want to give just a moment for Mary, Dr. Mary, to come up and speak, and then we'll wrap this up completely.
00:00:08.860 Dr. Mary, would you please come up, and I'd like you to hear, this is separate from what it is that we're dealing with today,
00:00:18.080 on one issue, but very, very relevant in the overall issue of this being tyranny trying to prevail in a nation and shut down truth from being heard by the public.
00:00:31.900 So, would you tell us a little bit of your testimony?
00:00:34.620 Well, thank you very much, everybody. I'm really privileged to be here today and share the support for Barry.
00:00:40.500 So, I'm a physician. I graduated actually 50 years ago. I've been around for a long time.
00:00:45.560 I was a general practitioner. In the last 28 years, I focused mostly on mental health and substance use disorder.
00:00:53.660 So, just to say in that particular focus, many, many of my patients have suffered abuse, and that's where I heard story after story.
00:01:02.840 So, I'll just start when this pandemic started. I didn't know the truth for the first few weeks.
00:01:09.740 I started to become suspicious when I was going to church and seeing that they didn't have to wear masks on the altars, but the people in the pews had to.
00:01:17.700 So, all of a sudden, nothing made sense.
00:01:20.080 And then, very quickly, I learned, and I learned about the horror of the jabs, etc. 0.96
00:01:25.120 So, all sorts of people, my name got out there, and all sorts of people, hundreds of people contacted me for exemptions, such that I had to have an assistant.
00:01:35.000 We just kept, I was still trying to work and doing exemptions in the evenings.
00:01:39.260 So, these people who were contacting me for exemptions all knew the truth, and they were just, each conversation was about an hour, because they had no one else that had believed in them.
00:01:52.080 The college became aware in October that I was writing exemptions.
00:01:55.620 A couple of patients' employers contacted the college to see if my exemptions were legit.
00:02:02.980 So, they assigned, they accused me also of being disgraceful, dishonorable, and giving out misinformation and causing risks to my patients and community at large.
00:02:14.740 They assigned a team of four investigators to come after me and find, they wanted my names of my patients I had written exemptions for and their charts.
00:02:25.620 So, I refused to comply.
00:02:28.540 They assigned a team of four investigators who could enter, it says on the papers, by force, if necessary, to find me in my charts.
00:02:37.600 So, at that point, I had to have a guard in my office to lock the doors between each patient.
00:02:43.440 And also, on November 4th, they told me not to write any more exemptions, but I re-read that paper several times.
00:02:51.600 It says, we made this order without notice to Dr. O'Connor.
00:02:55.020 So, they told me not to write it, but they didn't tell me to give me the order.
00:02:59.420 So, I actually didn't find out about that order until the 24th, when the lawyer for the college told it to my lawyer.
00:03:06.480 And meanwhile, on the 22nd, a private investigator had tripped me, actually, into giving her an exemption.
00:03:12.000 So, that's, it's really crazy what's been going on.
00:03:16.220 On November, on December 8th, what we'd sort of been fearing, the four investigators came into my office.
00:03:25.080 Now, my guard was there that day by himself, so he hadn't locked the door.
00:03:29.020 So, he heard four, you know, steps rushing up, feet rushing up the stairs.
00:03:34.100 And they literally, four of them entrapped him in my boardroom where we, and really just pummeled him with questions like, where am I, where are my charts, etc.
00:03:41.720 The female investigator went through all the file cabinets, but really, by the grace of God, I had moved everything out of there a few months earlier, not knowing, at that point, this was going to happen.
00:03:52.120 On December 23rd, at midnight, they took away my medical license.
00:03:57.320 On January 7th, they took me to Ontario Superior Court, co-accused with some other great doctors, some great doctors, Mark Troze and Thurwell and Roshan Killian.
00:04:10.820 And I lost my case in Supreme Court.
00:04:16.580 The judge said, the lawyer for the other side, first of all, said this had nothing to do with safety of the, quote, injections.
00:04:25.940 And then I lost my case, so the judge ruled.
00:04:29.440 I'd say he ruled against my patients because he said I had to hand over their charts and their names and their charts.
00:04:36.480 So, I've continued to not comply with this order.
00:04:43.080 Thank you.
00:04:43.760 Really, there's no choice, right?
00:04:48.080 About a month ago, the lawyer from the other side wrote my lawyer, you know, what does your client hope to do so I can continue not to comply, which puts me in contempt of court at this point.
00:05:00.700 Now, my lawyer thought I would get a sentence within a few days of jail sentence, maybe.
00:05:06.680 So far, they haven't come back to me, so I'm not sure.
00:05:11.400 Maybe they don't want to throw an old grandmother in jail. 1.00
00:05:15.100 Anyway, we're just waiting and praying and carrying on day to day.
00:05:20.420 So, I just want to say, in conclusion, I just hope and pray for these people at the college, Nancy Whitmore, my four investigators and newspaper reporters who didn't talk kindly about me, the judge, the lawyers, etc.
00:05:37.080 We hope and pray that they'll come out of this darkness and back into the light of the truth, and they won't any longer be complicit with the injuries and deaths of so many people.
00:05:46.120 So, thank you very much.
00:05:46.900 Thank you so much.