'If doctors won’t comply with an investigation by the regulator that’s supposed to govern them then they are, in essence, ungovernable,' said Toronto lawyer Paul Harte.
In July 2020, the province announced they would no longer issue birth alerts, a policy implemented by the Child and Family Services (CFS) system to alert hospitals and other CFS agencies of a mother deemed to be "high-risk'' and in need of further assessment before they could be discharged with a newborn baby.