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delisting cosmetic phlebology treatments. During that period, she worked entirely on promoting the clinics, her partners seeing the patients. She sold her clinics in 1994, as other entrepreneurs imitated her business model centered around high-volume cosmetic care services.
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135:. Her father Jean Lanctôt was the co-owner of a pharmacy with his wife Fernande Saint-Pierre, and president of a small pharmaceutical company. Jean's father was also a pharmacist and one of the founder of a pharmacy school that would become the Faculty of Pharmacy at the
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259:, the disciplinary committee found Lanctôt "prefers not to respect the most elementary rules of ethics and acts accordingly to the fantasies of her imagination", handing her a rare lifetime ban in 1997. Lanctôt declared
275:, advising people to cut ties with the government. She claimed she no longer had a bank account, credit card, or public health insurance and that she stopped filing tax returns. Her philosophy had been linked both to
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and to the sovereign citizen movement that had been developing in the United States in the 1970s. As early as 1995, she gave talks predicting the coming of an ideal society following governmental collapse.
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committee's hearings, starting in July 1995, were covered by the news media and attended by rowdy groups of Lanctôt's supporters. She called as witnesses several anti-vaccination activists, including
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medical knowledge. It argues cancer is a benefit and that vaccines threaten the continued existence of the human species.
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