Canada: new federal law about intimidation of healthcare workers
Date postedJanuary 19, 2022
A new federal law has come into effect in Canada making it illegal to intimidate a health professional in order to impede them from providing care or to intimidate a patient in order to impede them from obtaining health services. An offense against a person providing health services or against a person impeding them from obtaining health services can now be an aggravating sentencing factor for any offense.