🇨🇦 Manitoba’s watchdog was guarding the dentist, not the public

A 23-year-old woman is dead, and Manitoba still lets the same dental association lobby for dentists, regulate dentists, and investigate dentists. What could possibly go wrong. Virginia Blatz died after a wisdom-tooth procedure in November 2024, and nearly two years later her family says they were kept in the dark while the Manitoba Dental Association played both cop and defense lawyer. Even the dentist, Dr. Ronald Janz, is listed with restrictions on administering local anesthetic unless supervised, as reported.

This is the real Canadian institutional disease: self-protecting guilds, legal fog, and bureaucrats pretending opacity is professionalism. Manitoba and New Brunswick are the last two provinces still running this obvious conflict racket, and everyone acts shocked only after a family is destroyed. Ottawa’s political class loves lecturing citizens about trust in institutions, but here’s the truth: too many institutions exist to shield insiders from consequences. Public protection is supposed to mean accountability, not an old boys club with letterhead.

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