The Rebranding of Women's Studies Courses in Academia

An interesting discussion occurred on the CBC's The Current radio show recently (link below) between the host and two journalists. 

In the radio interview Barbara Kay will argue these courses are recruitment mechanisms into an ideology of feminism. The Toronto Star Reporter, Catherine Porter will whine about women not being representative in positions like partners in law firms and that same old argument Parliament. She will posit these courses are designed to get fresh ideas so women can have it all, a career, motherhood, vacations and maybe even a husband. Barbara will describe it as the Utopian ideal. Marxism was one of those same Utopian ideologies from whence feminism came.

What Porter fails to realize is women can have these things but only if they get a partner who will look after the children and is prepared to make the same sacrifices as a man by working long days and commuting great distances. The other option is to stay single and get a nanny or not have any children at all. There are choices but what Porter really means is lets just appoint a certain number of women to these positions (the old quota game) so they don't have to do it on merit and then they can have it all. Nothing much has changed in the feminist song book despite the much larger proportion of degrees granted to females over males. Its still an entitlement mentality and women deserve to be placed on a pedestal.

Recruiting feminists must be losing its appeal at Canadian Universities so the resident feminist faculty are trying to lure new recruits by new marketing techniques.  When a business wants to refresh its product it assigns the "New and Improved Label". The professional feminists in academia are re-branding, re-positioning and trying to attract men too would you believe.  They aren't necessarily pushing masculinity mind you but if you are male and gay you may just qualify as part of the "gender" portion of the re-branding.  If you are a transsexual or transvestite you qualify. Have you seen the label they use for the gay community now. It is LGBT or is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. You all may qualify for study along with women.  That opens up to a larger more inclusive audience - doesn't it? If you are a male - does that increase your interest?

At McGill University in Montreal the new branding in March 2009 gives us the name

McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)

"The McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) examines social perspectives on women and women's contributions to society."

You see the emphasis is on women but it is hoped the new name will attract more men and women of different sexualities and diversities.

Here is a sampling of these courses:

WMST 200 (3) Introduction to Women's Studies . Offered in the: Fall

This course introduces students to theoretical positions and topical issues in the broad, interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies. This course aims to demonstrate how “women” is applied as a social and political category imbued with certain, yet contested meanings depending on place and time, and cannot usefully be considered a self-evident effect of biology. Students are introduced to a great variety of analytical tools and topical intersections that will enable them to entangle seemingly natural and obvious truth claims regarding the meanings of gender, sex, sexuality, and feminism in contemporary societies. In addition to key academic texts, we will look at online material, view films and podcasts, and discuss news stories on matters such as gay marriage, sex trafficking, ‘hook up’ cultures, and creative new reproductive strategies.
Elisabeth Engebretsen
MWF 1:35-2:25 pm

WMST 301 (3) Women's Studies Current Topics 1 . Offered in the: Fall

Topic for Fall 2009: Queer Cultures: Gender systems and sexual meanings in a modern, global world
(Prerequisite: WMST 200 or PHIL 242 or permission of instructor.)This course explores alternative sexual and gender expressions cross-culturally, with an emphasis on the modern, global period, and ethnographic accounts of same-sex sexuality and non-normative and trans-gender forms. We examine how sexuality and gender intersect with formations of modern nation states, colonialism, religion, race, and ethnicity worldwide. The course literature emphasizes accounts of people’s lived experiences in different yet intersecting cultural locations, through examples of identity formation, coming out practices, non-normative families incl. same-sex marriage, rights and recognition, and the globalization of queer identity and culture.
Elisabeth Engebretsen
MW 10:05am-11:25 am

The question remains - what do you do with a degree in women's studies after its all said and done? The purpose of the re-branding is to attract more students to keep the programs alive. There are only so many tax supported professional feminist jobs out there and with government cutbacks on the horizon they will be fewer in number. MJM

From the CBC "The Current" web site:

Women Studies 

 

Forty years ago, there was a revolution on university campuses across North America. No longer content to accept the status quo as defined by male professors, women created a new field of study ... one centred on their own experiences and perspectives.

In the United States, San Diego State University became the first to establish a women's studies program in 1970. Canadian universities and colleges quickly followed suit. And today, the field stretches everywhere from China to India to Uganda. But at the same time, the field is under-going a major shift. Women's studies departments from Harvard to Queen's are being renamed as "gender", "equality" or "sexuality" studies or in some cases all of them.

The Women's Studies Department at Simon Fraser University is in the process of changing its name to The Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies. We heard from Catherine Murray, the department's chair.

Women's studies departments were an early part of the women's liberation movement. And the name change has sparked a debate about the state of that movement, as well as what its goals should be. For their thoughts on those questions, we were joined by two women. Catherine Porter is a columnist with The Toronto Star. She was in Toronto. And Barbara Kay writes a column for The National Post. She was in Montreal.

Follow the link below or click on the player here.

Listen to Part Three: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/201001/20100112.html

In OZ ~ Fury at ruling in custody battle

There is tragically nothing new here other than this reporter and editor chose to write it up and make it public. It follows a pattern well entrenched and taught by lawyers and the DV Industry.  Accuse the dad of DV and/or child abuse. Tie him up in the system for as long as possible. He will either give up (most do) or you will drain him emotionally and financially. Enough time will pass that the incompetent judges will rule in moms favour. Simple and effective.  One could appoint a psychologist as a Family Court Judge and, if they are not a feminist, get better decisions based on human inter-relationships. They know nothing of the law but custody has little to do with law and more about human behaviour.  Its a shame, a sham and a tragedy for children.MJM

 

• Laurie Nowell
• From: Sunday Herald Sun
• January 10, 2010 1:22AM
• 22 comments

A MOTHER found by the Family Court to be violent, untruthful, lacking moral values and responsible for the psychological and emotional abuse of her children has been given custody of them.

The father, deemed "principled" and with "much to offer his children", has been effectively banned from seeing his daughters.

The case will spark renewed debate about family law and the issue of shared parenting.
The father, who we will name "Bill" because he cannot be identified for legal reasons, is described by a Family Court judge as no threat to his daughters, a successful parent who is "courteous" and "intelligent".

The same judge found the mother, whom we will call "Jasmine" and who abandoned her first daughter at two and spurned the child's subsequent attempts at reconciliation, had displayed "dreadful", "cruel" and "malicious" behaviour.

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But the judge still ruled that because of time spent apart, the children had become estranged from their father and it was in their interests that "the children spend no time with the father".

This was at odds with a ruling in February 2008 that Bill should have contact with his daughters.

But in last month's ruling, the judge said: "The necessity to preserve the children's physical, emotional safety and welfare is overwhelming. However unsatisfactory this outcome is for the father, it is the outcome most aligned with the children's best interests.

"In addition, it is the only outcome which will afford the girls the peace they require now while permitting some possibility of a relationship between the father, (the children) and their siblings in the future, however long term that may be."

But the judge added: "It is a sad fact in the family law jurisdiction that a determination which is most consistent with the best interests of the children can appear to reward bad behaviour on the part of one parent and work in apparent injustice for the well-motivated best performing parent."

Bill has not seen his daughters since April and has not spent extended time with them since August 2005.

He says the estrangement was largely a result of false allegations of sexual abuse of the children made against him by his former wife.

The custody ruling in the Family Court last month came after a seven-year battle over access to the girls, now aged nine and 11.

It followed a criminal trial in 2007, when Bill, 55, was cleared of the sexual abuse allegations. The trial judge found them totally false and threw the case out.

The ordeal has cost Bill his home, his job and about $450,000 in lost income and legal costs. He has faced court 70 times to clear his name and try for some form of access to his children.

"It has been a nightmare. All I wanted was to be part of my children's lives - to try to give them a good start in life," Bill said.

"But I am denied that because of the malicious way in which my ex-wife has acted and because of the credence the legal system has given her lies and falsehoods.

"The family law system needs wholesale change. There appears to be no testing of evidence in court and it seems that often lies and fabrications are immediately accepted as fact.

"It's a disgrace and, as far as I know, it doesn't happen in any other legal sphere."
Bill's case follows the case of "Steve" last year, in which the court accepted his good character, but banned him from seeing his daughter for seven years because it was believed the mother would "shut down" emotionally if he were allowed to see her.

In another case last year, a father, "Mick", was jailed for sending a birthday card to his daughter in breach of a court order and was locked up again for taking a walk in a park - near where, unknown to him, his daughter was playing.

Debate over the operation of family law has become heated over the past year with a new campaign seeking to overturn amendments to the Family Law Act brought in by the Howard government that have established the principle of "shared parenting" and effectively given fathers a better chance of having greater access to their children in custody disputes.
Historian and Family Court critic Prof John Hirst questions the underlying principles in family law.

"The Family Court by law has to make the children's interests paramount in divorce cases. Everyone thinks this is wise and proper, but to elevate one principle above all others can produce terrible results," he said.

"To stop mothers being tempted to make accusations of sexual abuse and so keep children to themselves, the law should state that any parent making false accusations of this sort will lose the right to be chief carer of the children. If a mother has so turned the children against the father that they don't want to see him, for a time at least the children should be taken into care.

"Even on the present test of child's best interests, it is hard to see how a child will benefit from being left with such a mother. She has burdened the child with the story that her father abused her.

"Then when the child comes of age she will discover that the mother's accusations were false."

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  mick Posted at 4:13 AM January 10, 2010
  

  australians have lost their marbles
  

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  Ron O Posted at 5:14 AM January 10, 2010
  

  Best solution - sack ALL Family Court judges. None of them have a clue. They give a whole new meaning to the word incompetence. They are NOT acting in the interests if the children - they are acting in the interests of their own inflated ego's.
  

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  S. Kelvin Posted at 5:27 AM January 10, 2010
  

  This is what feminism has led to throughout the western world: women with no character and men with no rights. Decent people are getting sick of the double standards.
  

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  keith of belgrave Posted at 6:03 AM January 10, 2010
  

  Sad very very sad nothing has changexd with the family laws for fathers in 30 years. No justice for men, all the whohar about womens liberation etc, Its a womens world.
  

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  Robert Mont of healesville Posted at 7:45 AM January 10, 2010
  

  So what... I had a magistrate from the family court tell me ...."what makes you think you have any more rights over this woman who bore this child?"....nothing has changed, the family court sux.
  

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  kaotik4266 Posted at 8:46 AM January 10, 2010
  

  It's a sad thing, too, that the mother often gets custody of their children by default, regardless of their parenting ability or that of the father.
  

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  David of Mooroopna Posted at 8:54 AM January 10, 2010
  

  as usual, we have a disgusting and backwards legal system in this country. The judges tend to treat dogs better than our children
  

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  hunter Posted at 9:07 AM January 10, 2010
  

  this ruling does not surprise me,it is typical Australian justice
  

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  Isabella Cloud of Murtoa Posted at 9:26 AM January 10, 2010
  

  This is unacceptable, why do we let you things happen? I have no idea how the judge came to this decision...
  

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  Anti-sexist of One Tree Hill Posted at 9:30 AM January 10, 2010
  

  Good to see the system works to do what is in the best interest of the children.
  

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  AAP of Blackburn South Posted at 9:37 AM January 10, 2010
  

  I use to have such respect for the legal system, I no longer have any faith at all in them - they do not always rule for the truth and do not provide justice. My faith stands with God's Justice. The legal system does not always deliver wisely.
  

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  misha of melbourne Posted at 10:09 AM January 10, 2010
  

  I am a mother and was so sorry for the dad in this story. A child needs both parents Love and affection equally.No one but a biological father can offer that love. If the mother gets a New de-facto he too will get access to the kids will he not ? even tho' he has never been with them ! No parent should be cut off from their kids.Period.
  

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  Ang. M. of Melbourne Posted at 10:13 AM January 10, 2010
  

  How blood cruel and stupid can the family court get?! This ruling is digusting.
  

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  ld-v of lalor.vic. Posted at 10:16 AM January 10, 2010
  

  it certainly is a very very sad world esp for all children concerned.
  

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  Adam Cuschieri of South Morang Posted at 10:24 AM January 10, 2010
  

  Get rid of the family court. This is a complete and utterly embarassing. The judges have no idea how destructive they are to good fahthers who want nothing but the best for their children. The Vic Government seems to have ample money for investigative commissions in to everything but the Family Court and the rules which regulate it's decision making.
  

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  John of Melbourne Posted at 10:25 AM January 10, 2010
  

  Family Law is indicative of just how inadequate in terms of equity and justice our legal system is. And the government (state and federal) is at the begging whim of civil libertarians.
  

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  Bosco of Geelong Posted at 10:34 AM January 10, 2010
  

  What an absolute farce the Family court system is!
  

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  DAJ of Ballarat Posted at 10:42 AM January 10, 2010
  

  I don't have kids yet but it certainly makes you think that the person you have them with needs to be of sound mind because as a male you can be accused of rape, abuse, violence etc without the presumption of innocence.
  

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  Rob of Kyabram Posted at 11:11 AM January 10, 2010
  

  It is not only the mum who is dysfunctional but the judge as well. Time for a complete renewal of our broken down activist controlled justice system. Close the family courts and start again, even a drunk could make better decisions.
  

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  Meg of shep Posted at 11:17 AM January 10, 2010
  

  bloody ridiculous I and my older sister were both raised by my father with help from my grandparents [his parents] when my mum abandoned us when I was 8 months old. This judge has alot to answer for. Men are just as good a parent as women are. The girls should just go to the better home.
  

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  Melanie Baker of S.E suburbs Posted at 11:44 AM January 10, 2010
  

  This is terrible, we can't even rely on our justice system anymore to think of the best interest of our children, absolutely discusting! l feel for the kids they always get stuck in the middle, and the poor dad (Bill) for having such a horrid ex-wife.
  

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  michael pitt of kapunda Posted at 12:00 PM January 10, 2010
  

  When you think that tragedies like this have been occurring for the past 35 years; what sort of court allows people to get away with what should be a serious criminal offence and then crucifies the victims and the father.
  

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Free public seminar on the topic of Grandparents Rights. ~ Chatham, Ontario

Dave Flook
President & Proud Father
Not All Dads Are Deadbeats
www.notalldadsaredeadbeats.com

I am proud to announce that Not All Dads Are Deadbeats is now working hand in hand with the Canadian Auto Workers union local 127 to bring you a free public seminar on the topic of Grandparents rights. This unique event will take place on January 27th 2010 at the CAW hall in Chatham Ontario.

Throughout the years running NADADs I have spoken to a great number of Grandparents who have all expressed concern over the lack of laws to protect their access rights to their grandchildren. I look forward to providing support and solutions to this far too often overlooked segment of the population who are experiencing many of the same issues that we as parents face.

In keeping with that sentiment, I will be adding a new section to this website for Grandparents. I will also be adding a new section in the forums for Grandparents to meet and discuss topics relating to Grandparent alienation.

I would like to personally thank Brian Jacues - a retired auto union worker - for initially getting in touch with me and for his ongoing dedication towards the fight for greater Grandparents rights.

I would also like to personally acknowledge CAW Local 127 President Aaron Neaves for his support of the union workers and this cause.
At the seminar we will have Betty Cornelius, founder of www.cangrands.com, as a featured guest speaker. I will also be making a short presentation about NADADS and the support we provide.

Please get in contact with me if you have any questions regarding the seminar. We look forward to meeting with mothers,fathers and grandparents on the 27th.

A wife on Dr. Phil show admits lying about domestic violence to jail her husband for 10 months.

Interesting how Dr. Phil exposes the abuse of this man's civil rights but pillories him by doing so. His audience is largely female so he doesn't want to step too far out of the box to curry disfavour from his base. Nothing hypocritical here folks.

This is the tip of a a very large iceberg of corrupt practices in the DV Industry and in the legal profession who counsel women to lie. They know the law won't punish the perps if found out.MJM

http://www.drphil.com/videos/?Url=/house/flv/8041_1.flv&background=header_drphil_video.jpg

Also here on Current:

http://current.com/items/91870358_a-woman-admits-lying-about-domestic-violence-to-jail-her-husband-for-10-months.htm?xid=45

Man Convicted Of Convincing Kids To Beat Mom

For those deniers of Parental Alienation here is a case that is one of the more severe. Children have gone as far as killing their parents so it does get worse. A young boy shot his father, a surgeon in Texas, several years back. The dad in this case appears to have incited so much hatred of the mom they all attempted to kill her.  Both children are the victims as is the mom and they need counselling not jail.  The dad should rot in prison for life. He is a scum bag of the highest order and there is no place for him in society. He broke the most sacred trust he will ever get in life and that is the care, comfort, nurturing and emotional growth of his children.  On an emotional level I  think they should give him to those of us who have been target parents as part of his punishment and this writer will ensure he never gets to procreate again.  On a logical level it would not be appropriate but such is the thought process when you see innocent children turned against you. This treatment of children occurs by either parent and the one doing it has serious mental health deficiencies.MJM

Prosecutors Say Attack Prompted By Child-Custody Dispute

POSTED: 6:55 am CST December 9, 2009
UPDATED: 7:04 am CST December 9, 2009

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- A Douglas County jury convicted a Lawrence man of encouraging his children to try and kill their mother by assaulting her with a baseball bat.

Peggy Breit/KMBC

The jury deliberated for three hours Tuesday before finding 61-year-old Arthur Davis III guilty of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and contributing to a child's misconduct.

Prosecutors said Davis encouraged his 12-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son to kill his ex-wife on June 16. After the children began beating her, Davis went to her house and helped with the attack.

The woman was able to escape and ran down the road to seek help.Prosecutors said the attack was prompted by a child custody dispute. The girl was granted immunity and testified against her father. The Davis' son will be tried as a juvenile.

http://www.kmbc.com/news/21905318/detail.html

Saanich counselling clinic operator accused of false degree claims, charged with fraud

Here we have yet another perpetrator of fraud who was tied in with the DV Industry and went so far as to make a fraudulent report to obtain a restraining order against a father. There is a great deal of corruption in this Industry and this is another example. I would hazard there are many more cases he has been involved in based on his MO and affiliations.  The DV industry motto is "the end justifies the means". That he is also a Liberal supporter is interesting. The Liberal Pink Book lll is  a bible of misandry! MJM

Well-known Victoria man charged with fraud

By Joanne Hatherly, with files from Louise Dickson, Cindy E. Harnett and Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist January 6, 2010

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Jason Matthew Walker is still listed as a doctor on the door pf his business, Health Point Consulting Inc. , although he has been accused of false degree claims

Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist

A well-known Victoria man who operated a counselling clinic in Saanich and taught courses at the University of Victoria has been charged with fraud, accused of falsely claiming to hold two doctoral degrees.

Jason Matthew Walker, 31, was arrested Dec. 31 after Saanich police searched the offices of Health Point Consulting at 4430 Chatterton Way in Saanich. He has since been released and will appear in court Jan. 21.

Walker is well known in the region, having volunteered with Saanich police as a reserve constable, served as a civilian member of the Greater Victoria Victim Services board, worked for the Vancouver Island Health Authority and the B.C. Coroners Service, served as the Liberal constituency association president for the federal Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca riding and taught courses at the University of Victoria's School of Child and Youth Care.

According to his UVic website biography, which has since been taken down, Walker said he holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology, a master's degree in social work and two PhDs. It also lists him as a registered social worker, and indicates that he has worked as a paramedic, a child-protection investigator with Toronto police and Toronto's Children's Aid Society, a manager of public education for the B.C. Ambulance Service, an auditor and adviser for the Capital Health Region, and a policy adviser for the province.

The sign on his Health Point office indicates Walker has a master's degree in social work and a PhD, and is a registered clinical counsellor.

To the Saanich police, all those credentials didn't add up for someone of Walker's age.
Officers began investigating Walker in August after he reported to police that one of his clients, a six-year-old child, claimed he had been abused by his father. The child's mother had solicited Walker's counselling services privately, as part of a custody battle, said Saanich police spokeswoman Sgt. Julie Fast.

At the time, Walker presented himself to Saanich police as a doctor of forensic and behavioural sciences, and of medical epidemiology. As a result of the child's allegations and Walker's report and sworn affidavit, a restraining order was placed against the child's father.
Fast said police are reviewing the restraining order, but any decision to rescind or modify it would be up to the courts.

In connection with the child-custody issue, Walker is charged with defrauding a Greater Victoria woman of $120 on Aug. 12 and $150 on Aug. 17 by representing himself as a qualified doctor and rendering services while claiming to have two doctoral degrees. Walker is also charged with making a false affidavit on Aug. 26. He's alleged to have made a report when he was not specially permitted, authorized or required to make a statement under oath.

Finally, Walker is charged with knowingly using forged documents that indicated he held a doctorate in medical sciences from the University of Calgary, a doctorate in philosophy from Smith College and a diploma in human behavioural science from the Yale School of Medicine.
Asked if Walker was accused of representing himself as a medical doctor, or as someone with doctoral degrees, Fast said that's not the focus of the investigation. "It's simply the fact that he was representing himself as a doctor ... to people in the community."

Susan Prins, spokeswoman for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, said Walker was not registered with the organization.

Yesterday, Sharon Orr, office manager at Health Point Consulting Inc., said Walker was away on leave until after Jan. 22. She could not say whether he was still in the city.

"This has all been a big surprise to me," said Orr.

The clinic, which is owned by Walker, includes a group of health-related independent businesses that rent space from Walker and sometimes refer clients to one another. Orr said the other practitioners, including a chiropractor and an exercise therapist, are not Walker's business partners.

One of them, Tanis Danyluk, a reiki master and nutritionist, said she didn't know about the allegations and declined comment, calling Walker "a friend and colleague."

Yesterday, the lights were out in Walker's small but plush office, the walls bare where credentials had been removed by police. On a sideboard, a framed photo shows Walker with retired Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire.

Walker was unavailable for comment. His lawyer, Jeff Green, said Walker won't "discuss this matter with anyone until we get more information." Green would not say how his client will plead.

Walker was released on condition that he appear in Victoria provincial court Jan. 21. He was ordered to remove all display notices, advertising or Internet sites that refer to him by the title of doctor or make any reference to him possessing a doctorate of any kind from any educational institution by Jan. 10.

Yesterday, his office window still displayed his name as Dr. Jason Walker, but the clinic's website had been taken down.

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Vancouver Island fraud case sparks challenge to child-custody order

 

 

By Lindsay Kines, Victoria Times ColonistJanuary 8, 2010 1:45 PM

 

A Victoria man, who claimed to hold doctorates in forensic and behavioural sciences and medical epidemiology, has been charged with falsely presenting himself and his credentials. Jason M. Walker, 31, is president and CEO of Health Point Consulting, Inc., in Saanich. He was arrested Dec. 31, 2009 by Saanich

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VICTORIA — A father who has been denied access to his son is moving to strike a restraining order against him now that a clinical counsellor in the case has been accused of lying about his credentials.

Victoria lawyer Naomi McKay, who is acting for the father, said she'll be trying to get into court as soon as possible to have the order quashed.

McKay said the case has been a "nightmare" for the father, who was accused of abuse and, at one point, was prevented from seeing his son for more than six months.

"First priority is setting aside that order and getting back to a regular routine with his son," she said. "He was seeing his son three times a week. So that's his No. 1 priority."

The boy was interviewed in August by counsellor Jason Matthew Walker, who later reported possible abuse involving the father to both Saanich police and the Ministry of Children and Family Development. Walker's sworn affidavit about that interview was then used in the child-custody case to obtain a restraining order against the father.

The case was heard in the father's absence and he has yet to have his day in court, McKay said.

Saanich police, who investigated the abuse complaint, now allege that Walker lied in the affidavit by claiming to be a doctor of forensic and behavioural sciences. He also attached a resume to the affidavit that said he held two doctorate degrees.

Police say Walker, 31, doesn't have a doctorate, and that he has been misrepresenting his credentials. He was charged Dec. 31 with fraud, making a false affidavit and uttering a forged document.

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