AMA served as the educational body that also worked collaboratively with CPSA on issues such as standards of medical care.

[5][6] Levin, who has been identified as an alleged abuser of human rights for his role as Chief psychiatrist and team leader at South African Defence Force (SADF)'s drug rehabilitation program near Pretoria in the 1970s,[7][8] was "convicted of sexual assaulting three of his patients [in Alberta] between 2008 and 2010.

"[9] On October 16, 2020 Wynand Wessels, a white orthopedic surgeon, told a CPSA disciplinary hearing that he had "tied a noose and taped it to the door" of an operating room at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital Grande Prairie, Alberta in June 24, 2016.

[13] Wessels said that he grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era without a free press, and was not aware of the racial connotations associated with the noose and lynching in North America.

[14] On December 6, 2021 Wessels was found guilty of unprofessional conduct by an independent hearings tribunal and handed a 4 month suspension.