Canada’s emergency doctors are demanding better protection against administrative harassment and bullying for speaking out about dangerous overcrowding and unreported deaths in the country’s emergency rooms. Among other measures, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians is calling for “effective and enforced” whistleblower protection, arguing they risk personal and professional persecution for calling out unsafe conditions that are putting lives at risk. Stockton was singled out, bullied and threatened when news outlets ran a story about the sign, according to the claim. “It was the perfect storm of overcrowding in the hospital and the emergency department, staff shortages, too many sick patients and too few available ER beds,” Stockton said in an interview. “The emergency, we never close our doors.”Emergency overcrowding isn’t an emergency department problem, he said.

Source: National Post April 01, 2026 16:09 UTC