dead...The business model is soon dead and COA doesn't stand a chance.
The regulations are to be changed soon enough based on lobbying by COA. COA doesn' t realize that the changes that are to be made will knock them out of contention. See the press release from the BC Health Minister released last week.
Why would a contact lens company not set up online orders themselves???
The BC government has just proposed that the dispensing party need not be an optician/optometrist to allow internet sellers.
If J&J, Ciba, Cooper, B&L set-up their own online orders and ship it to a person's address.