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Petition 請願書背景 :

Ontario's Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Act will be in force as of April 1, 2013.  Without your help & support, hundreds of Ontario's Acupuncturists and TCM Practitioners may have to stop working after April 1. 

We believe the way this regulation is currently unfolding is not in the best interests of TCM practitioners, Acupuncturists or their hundreds of thousands of patients across Ontario.

Practitioners face a possible $25,000 fine and/or imprisonment if they continue practicing without registration numbers. However, the registration process has been hampered by unclear information regarding deadlines, insufficient preliminary exam options, and language barriers faced by the majority of practitioners in this province (all paperwork and exams must be written in English or French, despite the fact Chinese has been the main operating language of TCM practice in Ontario and worldwide.) The process for securing a registration number has been mismanaged so significantly by the Council it appears that it will be impossible for most practitioners to be in compliance by April 1, 2013.

中醫師、針灸師及中醫病人應得公平對待！他們並非罪犯，他們是醫療服務從業員！

Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners, Acupuncturists and their patients deserve fair treatment! They are not criminals, they are health care providers! 

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