Today I want to share my brief experience at the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and with their Chief of Staff Dr. Nitin Chopra. I'll skip here all the details since I already addressed them in a previous post.

But suffice to say that I had one phone call with Dr. Nitin Chopra which literally ruined my life.

When I filed a complaint against Dr. Chopra, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) dismissed my complaint, and covered up their member's unprofessional conduct instead.

As a result, this situation caused me so much suffering and so much pain that I almost killed myself a few times. I have been living in a nightmare since then.

I didn't receive any support or help. Instead, I was treated like a criminal and thrown away for daring to speak up against their member.

It is totally unacceptable that a physician coerces his patients to take addictive and harmful drugs, over the phone, and with total impunity.

He reported me to the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, and got my driver's licence suspended simply because I refused to comply with the "treatment" he was trying to impose on me.

A quick investigation revealed that Dr. Chopra graduated from International American University. Which is a second-chance offshore medical school located in the Caribbean.

Here is a presentation of International American University from their own website:

"International American University was founded in October 2003 in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia by an act of the Parliament of the Government of Saint Lucia. On February 1, 2004, with only nine students and five departments, classes began." ¹

Beside their website, there is very little information available regarding IAU. It is listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools, which also provides the following enrolment stats:

Table 1 - Enrolment: Counts of new students admitted to the program and those who graduated, as reported by the school. ^{2 3}

Year	Admitted	Graduated	Graduated (%)
2017	69	31	44.92%
2016	108	43	39.81%
2015	102	40	39.21%
2014	72	24	33.33%
2013	NA	NA	NA
2012	117	17	14.52%
2011	94	6	6.38%

According to a local Saint Lucian newspaper, IAU and other offshore medical schools lured a number of foreign students through fake advertisements. These students travelled there in pursuit of higher education, only to be scammed and abused in multiple ways.⁴

“Over the years, we have not had the necessary legislation to be able to hold institutions that come to this country accountable for what they are proposing” said Minister Guy Joseph, a Saint Lucian MP.⁵

As a result, on April 13, 2017, the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) posted that all candidates from International American University who graduated after January 1, 2018 are not eligible to apply for licensure in Canada, or apply for services of the Council.⁶

Despite this fact, IAU is still falsely claiming that they are accredited by the Medical Council of Canada, and that their graduates are eligible for licensure in Canada. ^{7 8}

They also insist that their programs are eligible for the Canada Student Loan Program and Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). ⁹

Furthermore, the university falsely claims that they are accredited by the Government of Canada, and that their college has now been listed under CanLearn List of Designated Educational Institutions, which is also false.^{10 11}

International American University is a scam. Canadian authorities are aware of it, and they removed IAU from their list of accredited colleges and universities.

But the harm has been done. This did not stop Dr. Chopra from practising psychiatry in Canada, and even becoming the Chief of Staff at CAMH, Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital.

Dr. Chopra continues to ruin the lives of ordinary Canadians by providing medical treatment which doesn't meet even the lowest medical care standards. He continues to threaten and coerce his patients so that they take unnecessary and addictive drugs without their consent.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is complicit in this fraud. They are the only ones still claiming that their member is fit to practise medicine. This despite the fact that the medical school he graduated from lost all its accreditations.

It is time for the CPSO to perform their due diligence, and make sure that all their members are properly qualified.