Ontario Health DM Michael Decter ignores responsibilities, misrepresents findings of reports and work at Health and Welfare

Quite aside from his role in implementing the Orwellian "social contract," Michael Decter was one of the most irresponsible Ontario officials concerning the exclusion, injury and killing of persons with environmental sensitivities.

In the attached letter, he:

1. refers to sensitivities as being caused by a single condition, ignoring a hundred years of literature and the title of the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Hypersensitivity Disorders

2. excuses a lack of action on the basis that there is no case definition for the condition when it is impossible to have a single case description for a compendium of disorders

3. indicates that diagnosis depends on consistent lab tests then the group is not homogeneous

4. says that tests do not reveal abnormalities, when the science showed a variety of abnormalities across the group

5. ignores the existence of a publicly insured method of diagnosis, as identified in the Thomson report, as currently promoted by the College of Family Physicians of Ontario, and as used by physicians for centuries

6. calls for respect and understanding while betraying persons with sensitivities to being unnecessarily killed in health care, excluded and injured there and elsewhere

7. ignores calls for public education by public health officials recommended in the Thomson report

8. refers discussion of CNS reactors to officials in the Ministry of Health when he had received documented complaints about the lack of forthrightness of those officials

9. tells consumer representative to sort out lack of responsibility on the part of the Medical Officer of Health himself, rather than taking responsibility for his staff

10. portrays requests for remedial action on the Ministry's contribution to abusive public attitudes as requests for "redress on individual situations" when no request for damages had been made

11. refers concerns about the contribution of Ministry officials to abusive action to various appeals boards, instead of addressing those abusive attitudes directly within his own staff

12. further refers concerns about abusive and untruthful attitudes and actions on the part of his staff to agencies of remedy, specifically Ombudsman Ontario and the Ontario Human Rights Commission

13. pretends sensitivities are new, not known to medicine

14. eclipses the actual history, experience, rights of persons with sensitivities behind debate about the ideas of doctors of environmental medicine, as proscribed by official reports and comments from organized medicine.