Dear Supporter, We have exhausted the political route. First, we tried persuading the Premier of Ontario and her Minister of Health, Dr. Eric Hoskins, to do the right thing and repeal the psychotherapy legislation that we proved: • is entirely unjust, dangerous, undemocratic, unconstitutional and invalid; • is giving a handful of people with vested interests, no oversight or accountability, and apparently no respect for the fundamental rights of Ontario residents, the ability to torment valued holistic professionals with impunity; • is poised to eliminate the entire holistic healthcare community of some 10,000 hard-working, front-line professionals, mostly women, at a time when more, not fewer front-line practitioners and options are needed, and high unemployment rates are creating massive hardship throughout the province; • has created yet another protection racket run by unelected, unaccountable academics whose careers as regulators at private corporate bodies (regulatory Colleges) are being built on the backs of hard-working front-line practitioners who are forced to abandon their basic rights and freedoms and pay huge sums to the private corporations involved in order to earn a living; and • is irrational, given that a US high court has deemed psychology, and by extension, psychotherapy, unscientific and therefore psychology and by extension, psychotherapy legislation, unconstitutional. We and our supporters have written hundreds of letters, talked with MPPs, and sent legal letters to the Minister of Health and the Premier to no avail. MPPs have remained wilfully ignorant of the problem. Finally, we provided the Competition Bureau of Canada with a 700-page submission containing all the facts, the evidence uncovered, and with a request that they investigate and take action against the anti-competition behavior that is directed by a private front-corporation called the Federation of Health Regulatory Colleges of Ontario (FHRCO), which in turn is directed and influenced by the international front corporation called CLEAR (Council on Enforcement and Regulation). A copy of the two-volume submission, which was delivered by courier to the Competition Bureau and several other government agencies, is available for a nominal fee that helps with our production and delivery costs. …contact us at admin@stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca for a copy. The Competition Bureau is a federal law enforcement agency tasked with preventing anti-competition behavior across Canada.We were clear with the Competition Bureau that we were lodging our complaints about how private pharmaceutical front-corporations were engaging in anti-competition activities using smear campaigns, false marketing practices, lobbying without being registered, getting undisclosed payments from the regulatory corporations known as Colleges, registering as non-profit when their activities directly benefited the pharmaceutical industry, and so on. The Competition Bureau’s website seemed clear that they had the power to investigate and prosecute such corporate activity. Under the section Regulated Conduct Doctrine, it appeared that they even had the power to intervene in certain anti-competition activities by valid legislation. Why would invalid legislation not be as well. So why did we get a mere telephone call from the Competition Bureau officials saying that • they plan no enforcement action whatever, • it would not put its reasons in writing, and • they ‘might’ consider advocating for change of the psychotherapy legislation? Of course, there was no mention as to why they weren’t investigating and enforcing the Competition Act against the FHRCO and it was not clear at all that they had bothered to read our entire Submission and the evidence presented. [Scroll down at this page to hear the telephone discussion or read the Transcript of the discussion: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/competition-bureau-submission/] What the Competition Bureau officials did imply was that while there was no veil of legitimacy whatever for this psychotherapy legislation and it was frustrating to those affected (no kidding!), they had no enforcement power over government legislation, no matter how secretly it was concocted and no matter how much against the public interest it was. According to them, even activity that had not yet resulted in legislation, such as the proposed Ontario Clinic Regulations, would not spur investigation by them. The provincial government’s behavior in encouraging the takeover of the Ministry of Health by a front-corporation is called Regulatory Capture. (Good name: one minute we are free people and the next minute, we have been captured and readied for elimination!). It seems that once the unlawful activities are given a sanitized title, such as ‘Regulatory Capture’, they get a pass from the Bureau, even though the Bureau’s own website implies that anti-competitive behavior cannot be hidden under piles of invalid legislation. Regulatory Capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory mechanism created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is intended to regulate. It is the process by which regulations and agencies eventually come to be dominated by the very industries they were charged with regulating. And now you see that when government failure is this profound, Court is the only hope left. Yes, we did follow up with the Commissioner of Competition about the Bureau’s decision and cavalier dismissal of the FHRCO’s behavior (see here: http://www.stoppsychotherapytakeover.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CompetitionLtrCover-Bureau-Commissioner-F-UP-Final.pdf), but we don’t anticipate any meaningful action at this point. Apparently, for some, the medical/pharmaceutical corruption of our entire Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is just ‘regulatory capture’ and we are merely ‘peasants’ who are not entitled to their freedoms and rights under the Constitution. And incontestable government ‘failure’ will be given a free pass until we see the government in Court. Can you help build our Legal Fund so that we can restore our right to practitioners and treatments of OUR choice? Or help in other ways? If so, please click here: www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca/donations