BC Doctor Says Country Faces Spiritual War Due to Abortion, MAID

A B.C. doctor says Canada is facing a spiritual war and that the nation needs to uphold morality.

Dr. Charles Hoffe made the comments on Sept. 20 at the We Unify’s 2025 Reclaiming Conference in Calgary. It was the fourth annual event by the organization, which advocates for protecting democracy.

“A spiritual war doesn’t have a political solution, it has a spiritual solution,” Hoffe said, adding that each person should resist tyranny, spread truth, and pray to God for his mercy.

“Ask for His mercy on this nation that has shaken its fists at God. This nation has killed its unborn: 100,000 babies a year are aborted in Canada.”

He also noted that the country is expanding euthanasia, and that doctors shouldn’t take part in that. The latest government statistics show that 15,343 died through medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2023 in Canada.

“Doctors are not supposed to be hurting their patients, whether they’re in the womb or whether they’re elderly,” he said. “Unfortunately, we’re getting what we deserve, which is the judgment of God.”

In an interview with The Epoch Times, Hoffe said that physicians take the Hippocratic oath, which means that they commit to not harming patients. “Of course, killing them is harm at its most extreme form,” he said. “That’s the problem with abortion and MAID, and neither of them should be done by a doctor.”

Speaking on stage at the conference, Hoffe also referred to COVID mandates and policies, saying the fact that the government of nearly every country in the world reacted the same way during the COVID pandemic was evident of a larger story.

“This was a spiritual war, because there’s no other way we could get every nation on the planet to go follow the same deception,” he said.

During the pandemic, Hoffe was charged by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia (CPSBC) for misconduct.

The college issued a citation against him in 2022, saying that he published statements on social media and other digital platforms that were “misleading, incorrect, or inflammatory” about COVID-19 vaccinations, treatments, and public measures.

The citation noted that Hoffe had publicly expressed that ivermectin was “an advisable treatment” for COVID, that the vaccinations cause harm, including death, and that vaccinated persons could cause harm to unvaccinated persons.

Hoffe’s lawyer was informed in February that the college was dropping its proceedings against the doctor.

During the Calgary conference, Hoffe said he had been told it was because “they said that this process has already fulfilled its purpose as acting as a deterrent to every other doctor out there who might wish to spread misinformation.”

The Epoch Times contacted the CPSBC but didn’t hear back by publication time.

Hoffe said even before the pandemic, he had noticed a “creeping tyranny” and a “creeping loss of our freedoms.”

“Layer upon layer of new legislation and restriction was being put in place that felt like a noose around our necks that was gradually being tightened. And of course, when when COVID came, this went into hyper drive.”

Having grown up in South Africa, he said he was surprised when he arrived in Canada and discovered the government’s control of the health care system, adding that he believed there were only three countries with such systems, the other two being Cuba and North Korea.

“The government demanded a monopoly on health care. And of course, their reasoning was everyone has a right to health care. Well, as you’ve now seen with our health care system, it’s basically everyone has a right to be equally deprived of health care.”

‘Civil Disobedience’

He said his father resisted apartheid, demonstrating resistance to state tyranny.

“My father raised money to start the first multiracial school in South Africa,” he said during the conference.

“The government would come pounding on the door every month, saying, ‘This is an illegal school. You will shut it down.’ And they said, ‘Oh yes, yes, absolutely right away.’ And then the police would walk away, and they would just carry on. This is called civil disobedience.”

He said resisting corrupt government was not done through violence or trying to overthrow the government.

“You’ve got to use the democratic process if you can,” he said. “When the government is tyrannical and unjust and draconian, it is our duty as citizens to resist.”