A B.C. college has dropped its professional misconduct case against a doctor who sounded the alarm about COVID-19 vaccine harms in his patients.
On February 22, 2022, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. (CPSBC) issued a citation against Dr. Charles Hoffe of Lytton, B.C. saying he had publicly spread misinformation about treatments for COVID-19 since April 2021.
On February 5, 2025, Hoffe's lawyer Lee Turner received a letter from the college saying the case was dragging on too long and they had decided to let it go.
In an interview with Western Standard, Hoffe thanked God and his lawyer that the professional misconduct case had been dropped.
"This is amazing. I still can't quite believe it. But yeah, it's basically their admission that I was right and that they were wrong," Hoffe said.
The college applied to the disciplinary tribunal to have judicial notice regarding their facts on COVID-19, vaccines, and therapeutics such as ivermectin.
This would have banned any testimony or affidavits from Hoffe's defence experts such as Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Pierre Kory. Hoffe said once the tribunal refused the college's request, the college would have lost based on the evidence.
"One of the accusations that the college has had against me is that I've posted misinformation on social media. And what was wonderful about that accusation is that I have never, at any time in my life, ever posted anything on social media.... I laughed because it was so ridiculous."
Hoffe said any interviews he did or speeches he made were at the request of organizers, including one in front of CPSBC offices.
"I was poking the bear.... at some risk to myself, knowing that this is maybe being a career kamikaze kind of thing, but, I have no regrets I have done what I've done because it was right, and that's why I sleep well at night."
Hoffe said he never thought he would lose his licence, but viewed a fine as a real possibility. Recently Ontario doctor Mark Trozzi lost the legal battle to restore his medical licence and was handed large fines due to process costs. Hoffe speculated his lawyer's focus on scientific arguments instead of constitutional ones may have helped.
"Constitutional things got destroyed in this pandemic. It turns out that our constitution wasn't even worth the paper it was written on because they just literally bypassed it. They said, 'No, no, this is an emergency, so the Constitution doesn't apply. And so, freedom of speech went out of the window, and medical ethics went out of the window.'"
The news was welcomed heartily by Hoffe supporters.
"What a wonderful day!" former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford wrote on his blog Peckford42. "What a glorious day!"
Jessica Rose, a substacker with a PhD in computational biology, was more qualified in her enthusiasm.
"This is fantastic news, but I am not satisfied. They destroyed this lovely man’s life for years. That takes a toll on a kind human being’s well-being: they stole his practice, his livelihood and his time," she wrote.
"Why did they suddenly drop the charges? Was it simply because they knew we were not going back down with our tall pile of evidence that would result in these charges eventually being dismissed?"
The CPSBC did not respond to a request from the author to provide a copy of the letter to Turner or to make a statement on their decision.
Hoffe has not yet had hospital privileges restored by BC Interior Health, something he lost soon after he became outspoken.
"They were supposed to, according to their own bylaws, give me a hearing within 14 days. That was four years ago, and they've still not given me a hearing. And I decided not to pursue that because I realized that this was politics, not science, and that if this was a political decision. And therefore I couldn't win."
Hoffe spent 33 years of doing emergency room medicine every third night. He was already in his 60's when he could know a siren at night would not require his response.
"I could see God's hand in it, and so I'm not itching to get back in the ER, because I'm enjoying sleeping at night," he said.
