EXCLUSIVE: New ethics code tells nurses to denounce “white, European” medicine
The Canadian Nurses Association’s 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses denounces what it calls the “white, European-centric” foundations of modern medicine.
The Canadian Nurses Association’s 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses denounces what it calls the “white, European-centric” foundations of modern medicine and compels nurses to adopt a broad set of radical, progressive political beliefs as part of their professional duties.
Regulated Canadian nurses are now required to align their conduct with a detailed set of political values — among them, social justice, gender ideology, Indigenous belief systems, and climate activism.
Nurses are now required to acknowledge “the historical and continuous impact that White, European-centric models of nursing and health have on the perpetuation of anti-Indigenous racism, anti- Black racism, and other types of racism.”
Under the Code, nurses must reflect on their “professional power and privilege,” and to structure their practice around anti-racism, allyship, and “culturally safe” care. Special attention must be given to “equity-deserving groups,” a category defined by race, gender identity, Indigeneity, and other protected traits. The Code also directs nurses to apply these concepts when assessing patient needs, communicating with colleagues, and participating in institutional policy.
Under the social justice section, the Code states that nurses must apply a “planetary health lens” to their care. The language goes further, instructing nurses to understand the “interconnectedness between nature (e.g., human beings, plants, animal species and non-living entities)” [emphasis added] and to recognize the “rights of nature and the planet.” Climate disruption is linked to patient outcomes, and climate activism is framed as an ethical response to health inequality.
The section on Indigenous health further requires nurses to integrate “Indigenous ways of knowing” into care delivery. These include ceremony, intergenerational trauma frameworks, and land-based teachings. Nurses are expected to understand the ongoing effects of colonization and adapt care to align with those narratives. Cultural safety, in this model, is defined by the client rather than the provider and determined through the lens of tribal identity.
Even nurses who conscientiously object to certain procedures — including assisted suicide, abortion, gender-affirming interventions, or supervised drug use — must continue care until a substitute is found. The Code emphasizes that personal beliefs must not interfere with access to services and places responsibility on nurses to ensure continuity of care.
The Code presents equality and equity as coexisting priorities, despite the tension between the two. Equality involves uniform treatment for all individuals regardless of identity; equity requires adjusted treatment based on identity group status. No framework is offered for resolving that contradiction. Nurses are instructed to uphold both without clarification.
Contradictions appear elsewhere. The Code emphasizes diversity of thought while simultaneously requiring nurses to report on microaggressions and disrespectful language. These are defined in highly subjective terms. What qualifies as a breach may depend on interpretation, and the threshold for disciplinary action is unclear. Language and tone are regulated in a way that narrows the space for disagreement.
In matters of gender identity, the Code reinforces a strict affirmation model. Nurses must use chosen pronouns and names, ensure their conduct aligns with identity-based expectations, and avoid behaviours that may be perceived as discriminatory. Guidance is less clear when it comes to access to sex-segregated spaces such as washrooms and changerooms. The rights of staff and other patients, particularly women, are not addressed in those scenarios. The document also redefines “family” as any individual with a significant emotional connection to the patient, to accommodate inclusivity.
The glossary and guidance sections adopt terminology commonly associated with activist literature. Traditional nursing principles — compassion, informed consent, confidentiality — are still present but serve as a background to more recent political priorities.
The Code gives nursing regulators wide authority over professional ethics. It centralizes a particular worldview and assigns enforcement power to maintain political alignment. Nurses who disagree with its assumptions are permitted to opt out of certain procedures, but the framework does not accommodate broader philosophical or moral objections.
True North contacted the Canadian Nurses Association and several major nurses’ unions for comment on how conflicts of belief and conscience will be handled under the new framework. No responses were received before publication.
There is apparently no end to the lunacy inflicted on Canadians by the Liberal government. Our health care system - at one time, the envy of most other nations - is now, itself, on life support. This is, in large part, due to the unfettered influx of literally millions of immigrants in a short period, overwhelming existing facilities. Most, if not all of these new Canadians, had little, or poor medical care in their home countries.
Like most other Canadians, I've been, and continue to be, a victim of this government-sponsored idiocy. At 80, I'm going on my eighth consecutive year without a family doctor. BTW, I am in that now-shrinking minority, a white, Anglo Saxon 10th generation Canadian. Recently, out of necessity, I visited the one, operating walk-in clinic in Ottawa for a pressing medical issue. This single clinic was the only one available to support the needs of a city of one million people. At 9 am, I joined a lineup of 30-40 people, waiting outside, to get into the inner lineup of another 20 people. After a total of 5 hours waiting, I finally got to see a (doctor?) who was unable to communicate with me in my native tongue - English. To my knowledge, among the 50 - 60 people I encountered during that miserable experience, only three others were non-visible minorities, the vast majority were middle-eastern. I am not being racist, simply reporting what I experienced. I asked myself; why aren't all these people at work? None of them appeared to be in any immediate medical distress. I guess that's because they don't have jobs - which is an issue for another time.
To require, by Government decree, our medical professionals to bow to this nonsensical, woke agenda, largely to support new immigrants, is sheer madness.
Could someone please, arrange a psychiatric exam for the person who proposed this?
It wont be long now, Canada will write racism into law and I mean, racism will be accepted! Our govt continues to divide us, and the stupid people in this country are going along with it! Indoctrination and brainwashing has been practiced for millennia, where the weak minded subjects easily believe their lies. We are not colonist, invaders or uninvited guests. Our forefathers were invited onto the eastern shores hundreds of years ago, we seen opportunity and capitalized on it. Canada is not and has never been a genocidal state. All the recent propaganda towards the Indians and all the other special interest groups is a plan put into motion by globalist's. And the scary picture is this, these globalist's are winning and we will lose our democracy with a standing ovation...Stupid, stupid apathetic, compliant and brainwashed Canadians.