Le Journal de Québec has learned that Dr. Éric Savard, who had an optometry clinic in La Malbaie, will have to pay $107,500 after committing numerous offenses, including willful blindness.
He will also be deregistered for a period of 60 days.
The Disciplinary Council of the Order of Optometrists of Quebec recently found him guilty of around ten counts of offenses. He criticized him for failing to carry out measurements, examinations and evaluations on his patients.
According to the legal document obtained by the Journal de Québec, Dr. Savard noted erroneous information in his clients’ files. Also, he allegedly refused to give prescriptions to clients. For the Order, this technique would prevent the patient from purchasing glasses in a store other than their own.
The Dr Savard was also found guilty of creating advertising on Facebook that did not comply with his profession’s Code. It stipulated that the amount of fees will be influenced by the service provided and by the fact that the customer decides to buy their pair of glasses in the clinic or not. This practice is prohibited.
“He has been a member of the Order since 2001 and therefore has, at the time of the events in 2024, 23 years of professional experience. He could therefore not ignore his ethical obligations,” we can read in the decision, which is described as willful blindness.
Éric Savard has already been convicted for two similar complaints. He was already subject to provisional deregistration. In 2018, he owned 48 clinics which he had to sell to pay off his debts.
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