With a year to go before its proposed launch, the shadow of the soft bigotry of TMU’s social justice-based medical school already hangs over us. A former specialist colleague reached out to tell me her patient just got a new family doctor who is Black, and he was worried if this doctor was competent or an affirmative action hire. She told him all current doctors have gone through the most stringent of examinations. But will her answer change in a few years? It feels like TMU’s medical school is the Titanic in harbour about to sail on its doomed maiden voyage.