Cultural Learnings of Dawson for Make Benefit Glorious College of Mohawk

“Dzień Dobry! Jak się masz? My name is a Borat, when I is go college in Montreal I is execute not the educate.”

Borat's description of the recent "blockbusterings" in the province of Quebec shouldn’t be mistaken for an episode of "Colombine Idol", "C.S.I.:Montreal" or “"This CEGEP has 22 strenchcoats!"”

The fatal shootings at Dawson College in Montreal, leaves many unanswered questions. This is likely to take a while for all of us to come to terms with. The reality of why such an atrocity was ever committed.

Pointing fingers at the goth culture, listening to heavy music and violent video games is a sad exercise in stereotyping and ample proof that people even in this day and age associate rebellious youth behavior to criminal behavior. Who has a minute to understand what really went on in Kimveer Gill's life?

I am sure he was giving out warning signs. His cries for help probably went unaddressed and reinforced his homicidal urges. If only one of his college counselors provided him with ‘Emotional Counseling'. It could possibly have helped the 25-year-old loner Kimveer Gill.

Unfortunately, if the HPRAC (Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council) get their recommendations to be considered ‘Emotional Counseling' might be the thing of the past. Ontario college students' can kiss their access to counseling and psychotherapeutic services goodbye. Human Service Graduates' trained in emotionally supportive counseling skills may never get to practice their craft.

Colleges will have to stop providing students with access to counseling services and close shop. Human/Social Service programs will be sucked dry of content if the restrictive regulation goes through.

The crux of the existence of community colleges happen to be - 'access' and 'diversity'. This new regulation would jeopardize those very core values.

So I ask the Hon. Minister Smitherman, Ontario's Minister of Health and Long-Term Care do you think regulatory practices that exclude competent professionals from providing affordable and accessible services to CAAT students across Ontario is going to be well accepted?

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