CALGARY -- A physician from a private health clinic at the centre of a queue-jumping scandal denies saying the clinic was set up to reward deep-pocket donors from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Doug Caine of the Helios Wellness Centre says he has no recollection of making such a remark to Dr. Jon Love.
Caine told Alberta's queue-jumping inquiry he doesn't even know any University of Calgary donors.
Caine was called to give evidence after the inquiry heard testimony last month that Helios patients were moved to the head of the line for testing at Calgary's publicly-funded Colon Cancer Screening Centre.
Various clerks and doctors have testified that for years Helios patients were given colon cancer tests in a matter of weeks while everyone else waited years.
Love has testified that he visited Caine at the Helios Centre in November of 2010 and said Caine told him then that the clinic was set up as a reward for donors.
