Where were the doctors? Informed consent is supposed to be the foundation of medicine. A non-negotiable, absolute. Yet when mandates rolled through, silence reigned. Instead of defending patients’ rights, too many in the profession stayed quiet, protecting their own comfort and careers. Ottawa’s streets filled with truckers, but not with doctors, Escalades, or Mercedes. The very people who should have stood for medical ethics chose compliance over courage. And in doing so, they abandoned the pro