Bioethicists and human rights groups have raised concerns that Ontario's protocol discriminates against people with disabilities. I cannot see a situation where some degree of ICU triage does not happen in Ontario. Lawyer David Lepofsky calls Ontario's ICU triage plan 'raging, cruel disability discrimination, by doctors who say this is science and government that won't even answer.' Dr. James Downar, who co-wrote Ontario's ICU triage protocol, acknowledges it may have disproportionate effects on some groups. Still, Downar acknowledged that the effect of using short-term mortality risk to triage patients for ICU care "is going to necessarily affect some demographic groups more than others."

Source: CBC News April 19, 2021 14:51 UTC