Report Canada Health Act violations

The College of Physicians and Surgeons is the organization that licenses doctors on a provincial level. They provide many programs and services to improve health care, such as ensuring doctors and services meet certain standards of quality, practice and conduct.

If you have have a complaint about a medical service or have experienced a violation of the Canada Health Act, please share your story with us for our website (jmalek@canadians.org). Click here for more information about what constitutes a violation.

You may also help protect medicare by filing a complaint with your provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons (listed below). They will review your complaint, provide advice to the parties involved and may take additional steps to resolve your complaint.

We also suggest you submit a copy (cc) of your complaint to the Canada Health Act Division of Health Canada:

Canada Health Act Division
0908C1 Brooke Claxton Bldg
Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9
Email: medicare_hc@hc-sc.gc.ca

College of Physicians and Surgeons (provincial):

Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Saskatchewan 

Prince Edward Island
199 Grafton Street
Charlottetown, PEI C1A 1L2
(902) 566-3861

Professional Licensing, NWT
Department of Health and Social Services
8th Floor, Centre Square Tower
Box 1320
Yellowknife, NT X1A 2L9
Phone: (867) 920-8058
Fax: (867) 873-0484

Government of Nunavut
Department of Health & Social Services
Operations & Professional Practice
Nunavut Government Building
Second Floor, Box 390
Kugluktuk, Nunavut X0B 0E0

Yukon Medical Council
Registrar of Medical Practitioners
PO Box 2703 C-5
Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6
Phone: (867) 667-5111
Fax: (867) 667-3609

To find out more about the Council of Canadians, and to become a member, visit our website at www.canadians.org, or call us toll free at 1-800-387-7177.