We’ve been warning that the Wynne government has engaged in ultra un-democratic behaviour as it forces on Ontarians endless restrictive mental and spiritual healthcare regulations under the guise of ‘protecting the public interest’. 

The Canadian Constitution Foundation recently published an article on how a Chinese delegation responded when the Canadian healthcare regulatory system was explained to them.  Their comments can be summarized as “…and you call us communist?”.  

The Chinese reacted strongly to hearing of the countless restrictions placed on the provision of healthcare services because of accelerated monopolization efforts by the usual suspects (doctors, dentists, big pharma and career regulators).

Wynne’s henchman, Minister Eric Hoskins, has been working hard to monopolize all emotional, spiritual and mental healthcare in the hands of psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists—and of course, Big Pharma–using the Psychotherapy Act and the Controlled Act of Psychotherapy.

Now, through pretense and stealth manipulation of language, interacting with one another for the purposes of health and wellness in Ontario is deemed ‘highly risky’ if done without with a Master’s degree and paid membership in an unaccountable private corporation called a ‘regulatory college’!

And so, if the Controlled Act of Psychotherapy is proclaimed into enforcement, which could happen any day, even spiritual care will be the sole purview of registered psychotherapists.  Forget having your choice in treatment and practitioner for emotional, mental and spiritual care, let alone getting treatment without a life-long mental illness diagnosis.

The courts can fix this and we need your financial support to stop what even the Chinese have seen as worse than communism.   www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca/donations

The introduction of the RHPA in the late 1990s had the intent of:

(a) ensuring that the monopolization of healthcare services in Ontario by medical doctors and dentists was halted and

(b) all professions were treated equally and kept in the public domain, except those posing an inherent risk of harm to the public.  The idea was to keep separate and authentic the many other professions whose scopes of practice overlapped but did not pose an inherent risk of harm. 

Note the qualifying word to denote the extent of risk required before a profession could be restricted or intruded upon…INHERENT.

In other words, the free marketplace was to decide who was providing the best quality service, except in the case of those medical acts that were clearly inherently dangerous…such as cutting into the body.

Instead, we now see from the records received as a result of a Freedom of Information request that a mere suggestion by roughly 30-40 psychologists and medical-modal advocates that psychotherapy is highly risky, without any proof whatever and without any definition of ‘psychotherapy’, resulted in extremely restrictive psychotherapy legislation.

On the basis of only self-serving opinion, vague laws were secretly passed and the usual suspects got to define the terms in the legislation so broadly as to prevent anyone else from offering spiritual care, holistic health education, dietary supplementation information, meditation, Zen, yoga, pet-assisted therapy and so on.

The following are the facts:

• Psychology and by extension psychotherapy, have been deemed by the Texas Courts to be unscientific.  Being unscientific, any psychology and psychotherapy laws are unconstitutional. Psychotherapy was known as talk therapy and it had no record of success or consistency from provider to provider, let alone any particular educational requirements or skill set.

•  There were no studies, evaluations or research carried out by the government advisors regarding the claims by self-interest groups that psychotherapy was dangerous prior to enacting psychotherapy legislation.

•  Government advisors (HPRAC) made it clear that a Controlled Act of Psychotherapy would be unworkable and incoherent, yet 10 years later, the Wynne government is forcing Ontarians to accept that these laws are necessary for their ‘protection’.

•  Psychotherapy, because it was used primarily by psychologists and psychiatrists, was automatically part of their scopes of practice, was already ‘regulated’ under the Psychology Act and the Medicine Act and could never stand alone as a ‘profession’, let alone a profession in charge of all human-to-human interaction for the purposes of health and wellness.

It seems that no matter how many times the Wynne government is advised that her restrictive and unlawful psychotherapy legislation is eliminating top frontline healthcare providers, she continues to make services almost impossible to provide because the usual suspects have hijacked the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA). 

Already, the usual suspects are threatening ‘investigations’, prosecutions and are coercing safe, valued front-line professionals into joining a most secretive, unaccountable, private corporate body called the College of Registered Psychotherapists (CRPO), just to be able to offer YOU their services.

Others are rejected as members because they don’t have a Master’s degree or their version of spiritual care is not acceptable to the College!

Please suport us in whatever way possible:  www.StopPsychotherapyTakeover.ca/donations

Past Articles:

We Have No Choice But to Fight in Court–Lives are at Stake

Think Your Regulated Treatment Information is Confidential? Think Again!

The Only Thing That Can Stop Those Too Corrupt to Fail–the People!