Dear Supporter of Healthcare Freedoms in Ontario: A supporter sent us a Q & A webinar hosted by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) in April 2016. It contains a number of admissions and not-so-veiled threats by the CRPO that demonstrate it’s dictatorial and unlawful attitude on issues relating to the controlled act of psychotherapy. We have created a compilation video of the most relevant facts, and a transcript (http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/transcript-crpo-webinar-highlights-april-21-2016/) summarizing some highlights. The transcript is short, but is breathtaking in content, as we realize that their statements amount to Ontario practitioners being told they are essentially enslaved or will be enslaved, and the public denied services. [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/donations. We do all of our work for free, but seriously need help in covering our costs for printing, website maintenance, legal advice, etc.] In CRPO’s webinar you will hear this secretive organization torment innocent practitioners who simply want to help their clients get and stay healthy, and continue earning a living in their chosen field of work without fear of being one of the CRPO’s court test cases, or receiving a prison sentence and/or massive fines. CRPO repeatedly advised these practitioners to join the corporation and pay their massive (extortion) fees, which they admit are 3-4 times higher than the fees teachers pay. For example, at the 52:25 minute mark: “Because a person doesn’t want to be that test case.” “Yeah, as Philip says [laughter].” “Because that test case is going to be awful for whoever it is [laughter].” "Yeah, well, test cases are long and expensive, um, so, yeah.” “They [energy therapists] get into the emotional deep end, so they do fall under the axe, yes? ... if they don’t make it [into CRPO], they are finished!” The CRPO (like all of Ontario’s health regulatory ‘colleges’, as per the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA)), is in fact a corporation entirely unaccountable to taxpayers, not subject to the Corporations Act, and scheduled for exemption from the Not-for-Profit Corporations Act. It is not subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 1990 (FIPPA, the legislation that subjects government agencies to FOI requests and privacy requirements). Worse, like all the other health regulatory Colleges in Ontario, it is directed by a front corporation called FHRCO and ‘trained’ by an international front corporation called CLEAR. As you will see, the CRPO wavers between the following explanations of what the controlled act of psychotherapy is: (a) we don’t know, the Minister will advise, (b) we can’t say, the courts will decide this during our test court cases, (c) it is based on the ‘seriousness’ of the condition treated (d) it applies to treatment of certain ‘disorders’ or individuals with certain ‘disorders’. CRPO will not define ‘seriousness’ or ‘disorders’, or any other key terms in the controlled act of psychotherapy . It is still anyone’s guess who will be forced out of work and when, because no one can get a straight answer. The only answer one gets is to join CRPO to avoid becoming a ‘test court case’. The fact is that controlled acts, according to the spirit and intent of the RHPA, are just one specified, defined and proven dangerous activity or approach within a profession or professions. There is nothing dangerous about psychotherapy, no matter how widely it is eventually defined, so the Minister is positioning the CRPO to arbitrarily target and ruin professionals, and eliminate the public’s health care options, as they see fit. To help us recover our freedoms before it is really too late, please go here to contribute: www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca/donations. Without your contributions and assistance, we cannot stop the damage being done to our healthcare freedoms. Thank you! ~The Stop Psychotherapy Takeover Team~