“Victor Laszlo published the foulest lies in the Prague newspapers until the very day we marched in. And even after that, he continued to print scandal sheets in a cellar.” So ran the accusation by Colonel Strasser in Michael Curtiz’s impeccable 1942 film noir, Casablanca.

Strasser was vilifying the upstanding resistance leader who challenged the prevailing regime in Morocco that attended France’s surrender to Germany in the summer of 1940. Today, in Canada, more than three-quarters of a century later, this enduring scene begs comparisons to a new, looming rebellion, this time between doctors and their regulatory agencies, and one that bears all the same hallmarks of defiance.