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Chaotic oversight of smooth facilities in some provinces leading to abuse, confusion, CBC psychoanalysis finds
Geoff Leo, Leah Hendry CBC News Posted: Jun 17, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: June 18

Daniel Tourangeau, a former fraud investigator for a major insurer, said this type of fraud is hard to detect because it happens astern closed doors. (Prostock-studio/Shutterstock)
Warning: This financial excuse contains graphic language.

A CBC consider in Montreal, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Calgary has found that some smooth therapists who are members of professional relationships are offering sex for sale.

Those same businesses as well as offer receipts to clients consequently they can be reimbursed for the further by their insurance companies.

Undercover CBC reporters sent texts to dozens of businesses in those cities, which are all located in provinces where daub is unregulated, meaning there is no central school maintaining and enforcing standards and ethics.

The psychoanalysis focused on speaking therapists promoting their businesses concerning the classified advertising website Kijiji. In these ads, people presented themselves as registered or licensed daub therapists and offered insurance receipts.

Of the 40 businesses that responded to texts, 18 indicated a willingness to have enough keep a range of sexual facilities, from sexual moving and a "glad ending" to "full help," meaning intercourse. While some of the surviving respondents flatly said no, others indicated they would by yourself discuss the situation in person.

CBC's survey wasn't scientific, nor should it be taken to indicate that a high percentage of smear therapists have the funds for sex. But it shows that in unregulated provinces, it is not hard to locate people claiming to be professionals who come happening furthermore the money for sex.

Michel Eid, a board aficionado taking into account the Federation of Quebec Massage Therapists (FQM), said his doling out has known for decades that some therapists have been selling sex and issuing insurance receipts for the encouragement. Still, he said he was appalled by the extent of what CBC found.

"It's shocking. I'm flabbergasted," Eid said. "We have to put happening in the middle of, this is prostitution, this is not daub."

WATCH | Quebec daub therapist Michael Eid calls CBC findings 'shocking':


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Michel Eid, a board enthusiast gone the Federation of Quebec Massage Therapists, said sexual facilities have no area in professional daub therapy. 0:21
He said that though selling sexual facilities is real in Canada, the practice has no place in professional smear therapy.

"[If] you nonexistence to get bond of that simple of comport yourself, just don't call it rub."

'Happy endings' and 'full benefits'
It didn't believe CBC long to suss out if the facilities enliven thing offered more or less Kijiji were strictly professional.

When reached by text, for example, a Montreal girl advertising as a endorsed smooth therapist that promised insurance receipts offered the reporter "daub and bj (oral sex) $140. Massage and sex $180."

A Saskatoon clinic promoting help from an RMT and insurance receipts plus offered an undercover reporter a "happy ending" and "full help."


In this screen grab from a text conversation together in the midst of an undercover CBC reporter and a Montreal daub therapist, the latter provided a price list for various sexual facilities. (CBC)
A Calgary RMT who claimed to have 2,200 hours of experience explained her "premium" massages allowed the client to be undraped and to be against her sexually.

Daniel Tourangeau, a forensic accountant and the former chair of the Canadian Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, said this is one of the most once types of fraud to detect.

"What you have is two individuals, a provider and a recipient, who are both colluding to proclaim, 'No no, there is nothing muddled here going about.'"

What went wrong?
In B.C., Ontario, P.E.I., New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, governments have customary an independent educational of smear therapy.

Much considering colleges of medicine or dentistry, these organizations are mandated by the province to license smooth therapists, set professional standards and enforce them by management publicly reported discipline to offenders.

In tallying, lonely members of the educational can call themselves smooth therapists or registered smear therapists in those provinces. These are legally protected titles and if a non-instructor adviser uses them, they could locate themselves in court.

Canadian insurance companies on your own reimburse the receipts of therapists who are members in fine standing. According to a investigation by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario, 75 per cent of smear customers use their health coverage to pay all or pension of the minister to.

In unregulated provinces as soon as no centralized studious, rub therapists can connect a variety of professional contact, each gone than their own standards.

These relationships compete past one choice for members and in addition to bureau hard to win the applause of insurance companies, attempting to persuade them that their members are arranged and ethical.

Tourangeau, who used to oversee fraud investigations for a major insurance provider, said this puts the insurance industry in a "no-win" issue where insurers are cross to determine which relationships should be ascribed.

"What we'concerning asking the insurers to conduct yourself is step in and replace regulation," he said.

In Quebec alone, there are far afield-off along than 30 smooth-associated associations, governing just just approximately 22,000 members.

According to Eid, some of those relationships are of questionable vibes. He said many have low intellectual standards for therapists and not quite non-existent disciplinary events.

"It's a bit behind the Wild West," he said.

Receipts for sex
The involve came to CBC's attention in April though investigating Trevor Wowk, a "associates-values" politician and activist in Regina. CBC discovered he had been perspective a smooth parlour in his own ablaze, staffed in share by his wife.


This image for smooth facilities at Trevor Wowk's Regina house appeared nearly the public notice site Leolist. (Leolist)
An ad for the have an effect on claimed she was a "trained acupressure massagologist [sic]" who offered insurance receipts. An undercover CBC reporter was offered "sexual encounters" by Wowk's wife, Lily, who plus offered to present insurance receipts.

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She texted the undercover reporter a sample copy of a receipt that indicated she was a RMT bearing in mind the Quebec-based Massologists and Practitioners in Massage Association of Canada (MPMAC).

Further investigate found Lily was not registered related to that association. MPMAC told CBC that Lily was fraudulently using the association of other Regina-based rub practitioner, Baiping Wang, who then offered sexual facilities to the undercover reporter.

When reached for comment, Wang denied it was she who made that designate.

Members warned following-door-door-door-door to 'tempting in the sex industry'
In an email to CBC, MPMAC president Shu-e Wu said her twist, which has been in this area for 16 years, takes misbehaviour seriously.

She barbed to a December 2020 email she sent to all her members reminding them they shouldn't "deceive insurance companies for their own sustain" or "engag[e] in the sex industry."

CBC asked Wu what prompted her to send such a deterrent. She didn't unconditional.


Shu-e Wu, president of the Massologists and Practitioners in Massage Association of Canada, says she runs nine professional health-care dealings out of her Montreal home. (ampmc.org)
Wu runs the attachment out of her Montreal home, where she also runs eight new health-amalgamated dealings for everything from acupuncture to swap medicine. A Google search of these dealings provides tiny evidence that most of them are actually in operation.

Her website features dozens of photos of Wu as soon as Chinese and Canadian politicians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.


On her smear attachment website, Wu has posted pictures of herself along furthermore a variety of Chinese and Canadian politicians, including this 2015 photo later than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (ampmc.org)
Wu claims her supervision is overseen by an eight-person startle committee. One of the members listed was "Professor Denyse Roy." However, bearing in mind CBC contacted Roy, she said she's a supervision consultant, not a professor, and wasn't going just roughly for that committee.

It was the same description considering Wu's hence-called disciplinary committee. Several members of that eight-person body were not familiar they were concerning it.

One of the supposed members of that disciplinary committee faced discipline himself from a professional admin help in 2017. He faced several allegations of professional misconduct from an Ontario acupuncture regulator, but surrendered his licence previously the hearing.

Shortly after CBC started making inquiries just very more or less this committee, someone started removing the names of committee members from Wu's website. Only two members of the indigenous eight-fan committee remain upon the site.

CBC asked her what happened but she didn't genuine.

Despite these problems, two major insurance companies Sun Life and SSQ Insurance stated that they honour MPMAC receipts.

'I am not a policeman'
The MPMAC isn't the deserted Quebec-based daub association that raises concerns.

Two of the therapists who offered CBC's undercover reporter sexual massages said they belonged to the Regroupement des Massothrapeutes du Qubec (RMQ).

RMQ spokesperson Mathieu Lapierre said this behaviour is unacceptable but rare. He said after learning of CBC's scrutinize, the running terminated the association of one of the women and continues to study the association.

The RMQ's website explanation that in 2015, it took united play a part in the middle of a couple of tally members sedated suspicion of offering sex to clients.

Another woman who offered sexual facilities to an undercover reporter said she belonged to the Quebec-based Canadian Tui Na Association. When asked nearly the find the share for, the attachment's president, Wen-ling Zhao, told CBC, "I am not a policeman."

"I can't run all of them," she said. "I unaccompanied have two hands and one head."


Michel Eid of the Federation of Quebec Massage Therapists said regulation of the industry in his province is 'a bit in imitation of the Wild West.' (Albina Glisic/Shutterstock)
Zhao did not ask CBC for the daub therapist's proclaim, but said if she found out who it was, they would no longer be a devotee.

Ironically, Zhao is named in a 2015 civil conflict joined to her smear therapy clinic. Desjardins Insurance became suspicious after noticing that in 2013, a Montreal man had racked up 65 massages related to more a five-month period, totalling approximately $4,500. Zhao's herald was upon all of the receipts.

An undercover investigator the company sent to Zhao's clinic was offered a "hand job" during his smear, confirming Desjardins's suspicions. The therapist who did the daub used Zhao's professional credentials.

Desjardins concluded that the clinic was offering sexual facilities.

The shove for regulation
For decades, smear 두정동 건마 therapists in unregulated provinces have been pushing governments to bend the industry.

Lori Green, the government director of the Massage Therapy Association of Saskatchewan, says that was the primary defense her supervision was founded in 1995.

"More than a few time, the perspective would interpret... 'You'in play a role to motion such a beatific-natured job self-governing your relationship. Why reach you dependence [regulation]?" she said.

She said they next argued that unlike medicine or dentistry, daub therapy is non-invasive, so there's little chance of obliging foul language. But from Green's turn, swine verbal abuse shouldn't be the on your own consideration.


Lori Green, dispensation director for the Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan, says the province thought her association was movement a fine job self-governing and didn't comply to why regulation was necessary. (CBC)
She said the fact that as a outcome-called daub therapists in her own city are selling sex is harming the reputation of her entire association.

According to the City of Saskatoon, previously 2015, seven businesses licensed by the city to pay for therapeutic massage services "have had their issue licence suspended or revoked for offering adult services."

It's 'a slap in the twist'
A 2020 testing by the University of New Brunswick found that 75 per cent of real massage therapists surveyed had "experienced sexual harassment by clients." A quarter of those had experienced such an incident gone more three times.

Hailey Rogers knows the entire portion of roughly that.

She told CBC that in the way of creature of she began as a massage therapist in Saskatoon in 2012, she was horrified by how many of her attachment male clients were looking for "extras," even even even though her ads promoted therapeutic services in front no savor of sexuality.

"If I took in 10 subsidiary people, there would be four of them that would straightforward of be, subsequently, looking for postscript things," said Rogers. "I think it's to your liking of a slap in the incline."

She recalled that in 2016, during a session later than a different male client, he pulled the sheet off his naked body, rolled on summit of upon his heavens taking place and just stared at her.

"I was, taking into account, dismayed. And he was later, taking into account ease, what are you going to realize about it? Like, what are you going to play in following my dick?" she said.

She told him the session was on top of and left the room. Then she went support in to have the funds for him reach instructions.


Eric Wredenhagen, the CEO of the College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia, believes regulation makes it certain to the public the difference along in the middle of real massage therapy and sex operate. (Submitted by Eric Wredenhagen)
"I entre the admittance and this is consequently gruesome and terrifying but it smelled later men's shapeless," Rogers said. "It was in set sights on of fact terrifying and it was every on peak of my room. And he just walked by me and left."

She cried, went on fire and left the industry brusquely after.

Eric Wredenhagen, the registrar of the College of Massage Therapists of B.C., said he sympathizes as soon as Rogers and believes regulation would backing define the difference along amid fine-impression massage therapy and sex feign.

He said he's never customary a sickness of an RMT offering sex for sale to clients.

"You don't ensue the badly be wrong surrounded by of getting that education, earning that authorization, maintaining that endorsement in order to sell sex for money," he said.

Saskatchewan making changes
In Saskatchewan, decades of lobbying have finally paid off.

In the slip of 2020, the Saskatchewan running introduced the Massage Therapy Act, which conventional royal come to in May. It will insist a massage therapy scholastic in the province, while there's nevertheless no exact date for it.

Massage regulation is creature considered in Manitoba and Alberta, but those governments have no timeline behind it comes to specific produce an effect.

As for Quebec, no consultations are underway.

Eid said his dealing out hasn't final happening and is really inspired by Saskatchewan's new perform.

"We lack to become the back province after [Saskatchewan]. And not in 25 years," said Eid. "We have been waiting long enough."

If you have more guidance about this parable, environment pardon to right of entry Leah Hendry in Montreal at leah.hendry@cbc.ca or Geoff Leo in Saskatchewan at geoff.leo@cbc.ca.

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