Byron Cruz of Sanctuary Health and Migrant Rights Network says they recently got in touch with nurses and physicians who have initiated a National Day of Action to stop cuts to refugee claimants’ access to healthcare. He notes that when the Conservative government was in power, cuts to IFHP resulted in one death and risked many more in the community. He says the proposal by the Liberal government for co-payment risks similar harm to the community.

Cruz notes that Canada is responsible for the refugees it produces by selling arms to the Gulf and Israel. He says the Canadian government should not cause forced migration and simultaneously limit the civil liberties and access to health care for the same refugees it pushes into leaving their home, noting that health care expenses are “nothing compared to the expenses in military aid committing genocide.”