Professor and Child and Cultural Psychiatrist Dr. Guzder, with long experience at McGill and now UBC writes to condemn the abrupt, consultation free closure of the University of Toronto’s Asian Initiative in Mental Health (AIM), a nationally respected model of culturally adapted care, training, and research. She argues that ending AIM without engaging patients harmed dignity, disrupted treatment groups, erased a unique training site widely chosen by residents, and weakened community engaged, person centered services for a population facing persistent structural racism and recent increased anti-Chinese hostility during COVID. Citing Quebec’s preservation of the Chinese hospital after community advocacy led by Alice Chan Yip and Ottawa’s hub for Black mental health under Jude Cenat, the letter stresses that culturally specific programs are essential infrastructure, not optional add-ons. Joining colleagues across Canada and abroad, the author urges the University of Toronto to reconsider and protect AIM, warning that the closure undermines partnerships, access, and Canada’s leadership in cultural psychiatry, and appeals for a reversal to restore trust and a vital national model.