Why is the AVMA proposing to change the definition of “veterinary medicine?
This question has several answers. The following are some of the answers you may not hear from the AVMA or the government. Lastly, I will link you to the reasons the AVMA gives. Read them both, and then you decide. 1) The AVMA lost a court case at all three levels of the court. The AVMA tried to enforce an injunction against a non-veterinarian practitioner, Louis Pequin, an equine dentist. It was the first time an Alberta non-veterinarian practitioner challenged the definition of veterinary medicine and the veterinarian professional monopoly. The result was a precedent setting case. The Court based its decision on the current definition of veterinary medicine in Alberta, and it ruled that equine dentistry was not exclusive to veterinary medicine. AVMA vs. Pequin – Court of Queen’s Bench Ruling AVMA vs. Pequin – Court of Appeals Ruling AVMA vs. Pequin – Supreme Court of Canada Ruling Letter of Complaint about Louis Pequin and his wife, Claudia Pequin, D.V.M. *** NOTE that even though Lo
