Ninety-one percent of current CMCC students have an undergraduate degree and 7 per cent have graduate degrees. CMCC takes only one out of every four applicants to the program. Many of the approximately 5,000 chiropractors practising in Canada are CMCC graduates. In Canada today, chiropractic care is popular. It is estimated that Canadians visit chiropractors up to 30 million times a year.
Surveys show that chiropractic patients express a high degree of satisfaction with their treatment.
It would put a chiropractic program in the university, which is where it belongs. It is one of the six regulated health professions that has the right, and the obligation, to diagnose, and one of five that have the right to call themselves doctor. And of those, it is the only one that is not within the university system. I believe that the entire process of chiropractic education would be strengthened and York University would be presenting itself once again as an open-minded, critical, focused on science, focused on evidence, focused on evaluation. And I don't think it needs to be defensive about this.