Dear Supporter of Healthcare Freedoms in Ontario: Our investigations into the legislative healthcare schemes working against the public interest have uncovered clear and shocking proof, written right into the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA) and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) that Ontario’s healthcare regulatory colleges are in fact private, unaccountable corporations (‘bodies corporate’), not even subject to FOI requests. (If you can contribute to our efforts and continuing investigations around what we feel is a serious scheme that ultimately will destroy your healthcare rights, please go to www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca) Our extensive investigations have uncovered the following: 1. Ministry of Health (MOH) officials stated: ‘By definition, controlled acts are those acts [techniques] considered to carry an inherent risk of harm in the course of providing healthcare to a patient. ONLY those acts [not entire professions] that are inherently dangerous are restricted, leaving as much healthcare as possible in the public domain.” 2. Joyce Rowlands, a recently-resigned Registrar in one of the corporations mentioned above, contradicted the MOH, leading the public to believe that the entire profession of psychotherapy, yet to be defined, is a controlled act when applied to certain ‘disorders’ or individuals with certain ‘disorders’, as opposed to just one specified and proven dangerous activity or approach. (Note that refusing service to someone based on their mental health status is a blatant violation of Human Rights codes, hardly an example of ‘protecting the public’!) And, she refused to disclose to the public exactly which disorders she was referring to! (For an example of her refusal click here: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/letters-to-crpo-spts-requests-for-information-fall-2015/) To MOH officials in 2015, Rowlands admitted (we’ve paraphrased): ‘Maybe the controlled act wording needs to be changed since we cannot specify a single act done as part of providing psychotherapy that is dangerous and therefore needs to be controlled!’ MOH officials asked of Rowlands in mid-2015 how she, as the Regulator, planned on distinguishing between a non-psychotherapist performance of the Controlled Act and other practice, and after many years, she was still ‘unable’ to say. [Remember, this is someone who has played a major role in facilitating this attack on holistic practitioners for the last 8 years since the law was passed.] MOH officials lamented that, ‘again’ she could not explain what criteria the College would use to hold mental health services up against when fulfilling their legislated duty to enforce the controlled act of psychotherapy. Paraphrasing what Rowland generally responded to the Ministry: ‘There is no specific act within the profession of psychotherapy that is inherently dangerous or identified as dangerous, but anyone who engages in psychotherapy (the profession) is in violation of the act anyway.’ See the Rowlands / MOH communications: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/excerpts-from-freedom-of-information-documents-from-mohltc/ and a summary of the most important contradictions: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ContradictionsMinistry-CRPO-StatementsFINAL.pdf. So it seems that the corporation’s Registrar saw fit to ‘spin’ the spirit and intent of the RHPA and the MOH official information. This should rank as a gross failure in her duty to be transparent. Rowlands' efforts to define the controlled act of psychotherapy eventually saw a shift to where the definition revolved around the seriousness of the condition, with ‘seriousness’, she claimed, to be defined in the courts. This continues today as seen at the 4:28 and 12:42 minute marks of a SPT Compilation of a 2016 CRPO Webinar for prospective Members: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_UQ9bhY2F0&feature=youtu.be. Knowing what you now know, you may be as disgusted as we are that: • the Minister continue to insist, as recently as last month, that 6 of these ‘bodies corporate’ will decide among themselves how to define the controlled act of psychotherapy and therefore choose which competing treatments and practitioners the public may access for emotional, mental and spiritual issues and which will be eliminated (see here: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/health-ministers-letter-spt-june-16/), and • the Minister and MPPs continually advise the concerned public (including practitioners) to consult with the CRPO ‘body corporate’ to learn exactly how their lives and careers will be adversely affected! (See here: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/health-ministers-letter-spt-june-16/) If you want to help us recover our freedoms before it is really too late, please go here to contribute: www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca Without your contributions and assistance, we cannot stop the damage being done to our healthcare freedoms….