The specialist doctors failed to pass the first stage of an appeal against two decisions by Superior Court Justice Pierre Nollet.

Judge Myriam Lachance of the Court of Appeal refused them permission to appeal, so the province’s highest court will not even hear the arguments of the Quebec Federation of Medical Specialists (FMSQ).

In the first ruling, issued on November 6, Judge Nollet refused the FMSQ’s request to file five sworn affidavits from physicians. These affidavits had been anonymized with extensive redactions to protect the physicians’ identities. According to the FMSQ, the physicians feared that their affidavits—which challenged the validity of Bill 2 introduced by Minister Christian Dubé—would expose them to reprisals under the punitive measures provided for in the law.

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