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}}</ref> The CPSO lists the laws which it recognises on its [https://www.cpso.on.ca/en/About/Legislation-By-Laws Legislation and By-laws] webpage. It does ''not'' list the [https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/index.html Constitution Acts of Canada], including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on that webpage.
Ontario is the most populous province in Canada, with more than 1314,000,000 inhabitants, so the CPSO regulates the health care of more than 1/3 38 percent of Canadians.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.canadapopulation.net/ontario-population/ |title=Ontario Population 2022 |last= |first= |website=Canada Population |date=2022 |accessdate=2022-08-24}}</ref>
The CPSO recognises the Regulated Health Professions Act 1991 as its governing legislature. It reportedly does not recognise the Constitution of Canada, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as applying to the CPSO, nor does it recognise the rights granted to all Canadians by the Charter as being patient rights.
==Circumcision policy==
The CPSO does not recognise the right to [[physical integrity]] provided by Section Seven of the Charter as a patient right, so it permits doctors to perform [[circumcision]] of boys without [[medical indication]].
The permissive policy of the CPSO has resulted in deaths of infant boys in Ontario.<ref name="cairns2007">{{REFjournal
|last=Cairns
|init=J
|author-link=
|etal=yes
|title=Circumcision: A minor procedure?
|journal=Paediatr Child Health
|location=
|date=2007-04
|volume=12
|issue=4
|pages=311-2
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528673/
|quote=
|pubmedID=19030377
|pubmedCID=2528673
|DOI=
|accessdate=2022-08-24
}}</ref> <ref name="blackwell2015">{{REFnews
|title=Ontario newborn bleeds to death after family doctor persuades parents to get him circumcised
|url=https://nationalpost.com/health/ontario-newborn-bleeds-to-death-after-family-doctor-persuades-parents-to-get-him-circumcised
|last=Blackwell
|first=Tom
|coauthors=
|publisher=National Post
|website=
|date=2015-10-25
|accessdate=2022-08-24
|quote=
}}</ref>
A recent survey of complications of non-therapeutic, non-indicated circumcision carried out at the [https://www.sickkids.ca/ Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto, Ontario reported:
<blockquote>
Neonatal circumcision (NNC) is the most frequently performed surgical procedure worldwide and is generally considered safe in Western societies. Deaths attributed to NNC are seldom reported and are mostly explained by lack of adherence to medical standards. We reviewed our emergency department database for circumcision-related emergency admissions. During 2000–2013, 19 previously healthy neonates were admitted for acute complications after circumcision. Four were admitted for bleeding, with hemophilia identified in two cases and von Willebrand disease in one. Eight boys required emergency surgery, three for severe bleeding. Four boys with amputation of the glans underwent immediate surgical reconstruction. One infant was taken to the operating room to remove an obstructing Plastibell ring. Seven boys were admitted to the intensive care unit with severe bleeding or sepsis, three of whom ultimately progressed to hemorrhagic or septic shock. Two of these children died of their complications. We estimate that the annual incidence of severe complications requiring hospitalization after NNC in the Greater Toronto Area was approximately 0.01%, and the incidence of fatalities over the 14-yr review period was approximately 0.0012%. Our results indicate that the risk of serious complications and death as a result of NNC is greater than generally assumed.<ref name="shroder2021">{{REFjournal
|last=Schröder
|first=Annette
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Farhat
|first2=Walid A.
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Chiasson
|first3=David
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Wilson
|first4=Gregory J.
|init4=
|author4-link=
|last5=Koyle
|first5=Martin A.
|init5=
|author5-link=
|etal=no
|title=Serious and Fatal Complications after Neonatal Circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Eur Urol
|location=
|date=2021-12-12
|volume=29
|issue=
|article=
|page=
|pages=S2405-4569(21)00316-3
|url=https://www.eu-focus.europeanurology.com/article/S2405-4569(21)00316-3/fulltext
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=34973956
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1016/j.euf.2021.12.005
|accessdate=2022-01-15
}}</ref></blockquote>
==Right of appeal==
Actions of the CPSO are subject to review on appeal by the [http://www.hparb.on.ca/scripts/english/#gsc.tab=0 Health Professions Appeal and Review Board].