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MMiller Thomson LLPToronto, ON · October 20, 2026

Can Ontario health professionals ask patients not to complain to their regulatory college? The CPSO says no

Can a health professional require patients, as a condition of treatment, to promise they will never complain to their regulatory college? In College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario v. Hart, 2026 ONPSDT 29 [CPSO v. Hart], the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (the “Tribunal”)[1] found that doing so amounted to disgraceful, dishonorable and...

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