BC Conservatives rule out candidate whose medical license was suspended

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The British Columbia Conservative Party has ruled out a Denman Island doctor, whose license was suspended for allegedly signing falsified vaccine and mask exemption forms, as a candidate in Ladysmith-Oceanside.

The party announced the nomination of Stephen Malthouse on Wednesday, calling him “an experienced doctor with more than four decades of dedicated service.” Within a few hours, his profile was no longer available on the party’s website.

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Aisha Estey, chair of the British Columbia Conservative Party, said in a social media post that Malthouse is no longer a party candidate. She gave no explanation for his dismissal.

“We are a new party, we have grown at a record pace, but some mistakes are likely to occur,” Estey said in a statement. “Unfortunately, we nominated a couple of candidates who ultimately were not the right fit for our team. We wish them all the best and thank them for putting their name forward.”

Malthouse, a family doctor, has been outspoken against COVID-19 mandates, speaking at rallies against public health measures and in videos.

The person who answered Malthouse’s phone Thursday said he would not comment.

In October 2020, he wrote an open letter to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, alleging that masks are “useless and even harmful” against COVID-19 and stating that people “rarely” became ill from the virus. virus.

At an anti-vaccine event in Kelowna in late 2021, Malthouse claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine made some people magnetized, Castanet reported.

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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC suspended its license in March 2022.

The public notice of his suspension says the university issued an interim order “to protect the public” pending the completion of an investigation. The university’s medical board said Malthouse’s status was suspended Thursday.

The university said the decision to suspend Malthouse came after considering evidence about allegations that he signed vaccine and mask exemption forms that he knew included false statements, gave medical conclusions without any objective medical evidence, provided diagnoses and treatments potentially harmful to patients and used their status. as a doctor to try to circumvent public health orders.

The university found that there was a high probability that Malthouse would repeat his behavior if his license was not suspended.

“The panel concluded that there would be a real risk of harm to the public if Dr. Malthouse were allowed to continue practicing without restrictions,” the university said in its order.

Malthouse appears to be the second island candidate to be ruled out by the British Columbia Conservatives.

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The party named Jan Webb as its candidate for Esquimalt-Colwood in an Instagram post on January 1. Her profile is no longer on the party’s website, but the social media post remains online.

Webb worked as a nurse for decades both in hospitals and in the community, focusing on senior care, the post says.

“It is now seeking new changes in the medical system, advocating for individualized, evidence-based care with better access to treatment to alleviate suffering and provide more options instead of MAID,” he says.

The party did not directly respond to questions about Webb on Thursday.

In a since-deleted tweet, Estey said Webb had been removed as a candidate in response to a tweet by Webb advising people to stay away from “those recently injected due to the spike protein shedding phenomenon.” TRUE.”

“Webb is a trained nurse and, frankly, should know better than this,” Estey wrote.

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