Archie Campbell (judge)

Archie Gray Campbell (13 April 1942 – 17 April 2007) was a former Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario and the lower Ontario Court.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Campbell graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1967. He worked at the Attorney General of Ontario's office as appeal counsel for the attorney general and as deputy attorney general. He later was senior policy advisor to the current Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario Roy McMurtry. Outside of the AG office, Campbell worked briefly at the Parkdale Legal Clinic in 1977 and taught at Osgoode Hall. He was appointed to the bench in 1986.[1]

Campbell's notable contributions included a 1995 inquiry into the police investigation of Paul Bernardo's crimes and the 2003 SARS Commission inquiry.[1]

Campbell died of cancer and degenerative lung disease on 17 April 2007 in Toronto.[1]

SARS Commission

In Canada, health-care workers made up 43 per cent of 2003 SARS epidemic cases.[2] An inquiry was called by then-Premier Ernie Eves who selected Campbell to be the Chairman. The SARS Commission report can be found in the Archives of Ontario, and has five volumes.[3] In total, more than 2000 pages were written by Campbell and his staff. Campbell was selected from amongst the supernumerary justices of Ontario on 10 June 2003[4] by the government of Ernie Eves, whose Conservative colleagues held the legislature at the time of the inquiry's formation and indeed the SARS epidemic itself, which had hit the shores of Toronto on 23 February 2003.[5]

In his final report, Campbell fixed a list of Thirteen Essential Questions, which are enumerated below:[5]

  1. Why Does SARS Matter Today?
  2. How Bad Was SARS?
  3. What Went Right?
  4. What Went Wrong?
  5. Were Precautions Relaxed Too Soon?
  6. Who Is There to Blame?
  7. Was Information Withheld?
  8. Did Politics Intrude?
  9. Was SARS I Preventable?
  10. Was SARS II Preventable?
  11. Were Health Workers Adequately Protected?
  12. Are We Safer Now?
  13. What Must Be Done?

Campbell issued a whopping number of recommendations. Some people count 92. Unfortunately, Campbell was focused on paper, and thus had a blind spot: none deal with logistics, emergency supplies or a secure supply chain.[5]

gollark: Really? Reusable water bottles aren't that common as far as I know.
gollark: But do they drink it FROM BOTTLES?
gollark: And the water bottle suggests that it's somewhere where people drink water.
gollark: Also, it implies they don't spend that much on equipment, because fancier schools waste money on big LCDs or bother to line up their projectors.
gollark: I looked it up in the global projector database™, obviously.

See also
  • Walker Panel - aka Ontario "Expert Panel on SARS and Infectious Disease Control"

References
  1. Debra Black (18 April 2007). "Archie Campbell, 65 Legal Giant". Toronto Star.
  2. Branswell, Helen (6 March 2013). "Ten years later, SARS still haunts survivors and health-care workers". The Globe and Mail Inc. The Canadian Press.
  3. The SARS Commission. Queen's Printer for Ontario. December 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  4. Campbell, Archie Gray (15 April 2004). SARS and Public Health in Ontario (Volume 4) (PDF). Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario. ISBN 1-4249-2823-0.
  5. Cambell, Archie Gray (December 2006). Spring of Fear (Volume 1) (PDF). Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario. ISBN 1-4249-2821-4.

Bibliography
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