====== Anthony Mathews ======

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**Anthony (Tony) Mathews**, DO is a British [[osteopathy|osteopath]]. 

He is a member of [[OsteopathyBC]].((//Tony Matthews - Body Logic Osteopathic Rehab and Sports Injury Clinic.// OsteopathyBC. Retrieved April 15, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230415215138/https://www.osteopathybc.ca/content/tony-matthews-body-logic-osteopathic-rehab-and-sports-injury-clinic))

===== History =====

Mathews hired a lobbyist named [[Michael Geoghegan]] to assist him in convincing the [[British Columbia Ministry of Health]] to make changes to how osteopathic practitioners are regulated in [[canada:British Columbia]]. Geoghegan formally registered his intended lobbying activity with the [[Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists for British Columbia]] on August 8, 2012, active until May 1, 2013.((Geoghegan, M. (2012, August 8). //11714235 - Review Registration - Consultant.// Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists British Columbia. http://archive.today/2023.04.15-210712/https://www.lobbyistsregistrar.bc.ca/app/secure/orl/lrs/do/vwRg?cno=1279®Id=11714235))

The pair scheduled a meeting with [[Mark MacKinnon]] and [[Laurianne Jodouin]] for October 15, 2014. According to minutes from the meeting, Mathews did not disclose in advance the purpose of the meeting or the fact that he was bringing guests, which included Geoghegan, an unnamed notetaker, and another osteopathic practitioner named [[Howard Dieno]].((MacKinnon, M., & Jodouin, L. (2015). //FOI Request - HTH-2015-00014// (pp. 2–3). Government of British Columbia. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415202717/http://docs.openinfo.gov.bc.ca/D18698215A_Response_Package_HTH-2015-00014.PDF))