Refugee health-care cuts struck down
Refugee health-care cuts struck down The Federal Court has ruled Ottawa’s cutbacks to health-care coverage for refugee claimants constitute “cruel and unusual” treatment — particularly to children — and should be struck down. “This is particularly, but not exclusively so as it affects children who have been brought to this country by their parents,” Justice Anne Mactavish wrote in a decision released Friday. “The 2012 modifications to the Interim Federal Health Program potentially jeopardize the health, the safety and indeed the very lives, of these innocent and vulnerable children in a manner that shocks the conscience and outrages our standards… View Article
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