{"id":19668,"date":"2014-07-21T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19668"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:08:58","slug":"cuts-to-refugee-health-care-denounced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/21\/cuts-to-refugee-health-care-denounced\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to refugee health care denounced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mccallum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mccallum.jpg\" alt=\"mccallum\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19669\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMember of Parliament John McCallum (Markham-Unionville) recently denounced the unusual changes to the Federal Interim Health Program which has affected the lives of refugees in Canada.<br \/>\nMcCallum and colleagues, Kirsty Duncan, Dr. Jane Philpott, were participants in a roundtable discussion in Toronto, attended by 25 community stakeholders, discussing the Conservative government\u2019s health care cuts.<br \/>\nThe Federal Court agreed and ruled on July 4, that denying refugees access to health care amounted to \u201ccruel and unusual\u201d treatment.<br \/>\nLikewise, members of the medical community explained how the cuts have caused widespread confusion among doctors who now have to ascertain what kind or refugee a patient is before deciding whether or not they can be treated. In addition, doctors pointed out that denying refugees access to primary care posed a danger to public health.<br \/>\nFormer refugees also denounced the cuts explaining how they feel discriminated against because of their country of origin. Another refugee spoke of how the stigma of being a refugee never goes away and why a country like Canada can treat them this way.<br \/>\nMcCallum said that Canada should be a place where a refugee can find safety and a fair chance at becoming a productive citizen. He opined that the Conservatives should drop their appeal of the Federal Court\u2019s decision and let vulnerable people have access to the health care they need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament John McCallum (Markham-Unionville) recently denounced the unusual changes to the Federal Interim Health Program which has affected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}