08 Jan Fefergrad feedback

Yesterday I criticized Irwin Fefergrad, registrar of the Royal Ontario College of Dental Surgeons, for conducting a media blitz in which he passed premature judgment on the Dalhousie Dental School crisis, and chided the school administration for good measure.

A reader with long and deep experience in government responded on Facebook:

It has been quite a while since I looked at Administrative Law so I could be off base here. But I suspect Fefergrad has actually complicated his ability to protect the people of Ontario — and you are correct he has not yet been called upon to protect them from Dal’s class of ’15. Regulators’ actions were — and I’m willing to guess still are — reviewable by the courts for, among other things, bias. If one of the 13 applies and is turned down, all those media quotes will be evidence he may have to explain in court. I wonder if he has the backing of the College, or is on a frolic of his own. I wonder if he talked to the College’s lawyer first.

I wonder too.