Bill 36 will allow the Ministry of Health to unilaterally dictate:

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● A licensee to provide additional information or records, including personal information or other types of confidential information

● Bylaws respecting mandatory vaccinations, required under an enactment other than the bylaws, against transmissible illnesses

● Bylaws respecting ethics standards respecting providing false or misleading information to patients or the public respecting health and matters relating to health, including, without limitation, health services, drugs, devices and other health products

● An investigation or taking disciplinary action with respect to whether a licensee is fit to practice or has committed an act of misconduct

● A regulatory complaint based on information from the media or another public source

● An investigation and enter premises used by a respondent to practice a designated health profession without a court order

● An investigation to inspect and copy any records found on the premises or produced under an information and production order, including records containing personal information or other types of confidential information without a court order

● A respondent to undergo a competence assessment

● To not refuse to issue a citation or cancel a citation solely because the respondent's license has expired or has been revoked or surrendered, or the respondent is no longer a resident of British Columbia

● Publicly disclose personal information necessary to protect the public from harm

● Fines not exceeding $200,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than 6 months, or to both, to those who provide false or misleading information

● Any other matter that the minister directs