Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is to be credited for his efforts to improve the efficiency of the refugee adjudication process by shortening wait times, hastening removals and other reforms. But taking away health-care benefits from people who are waiting for a hearing or an appeal, as he has also done, is not smart public policy. As long as these claimants remain in Canada, the government should pay for their health care – both for humanitarian reasons, and in the interest of Canadians.
The decision to restrict the Interim Federal Health Program means that refugee claimants from designated countries are no longer able to receive medical care, except in emergencies. Prescriptions for insulin or heart medication are not covered, pregnant women have no access to prenatal care, and the children of asylum seekers cannot receive immunizations.
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We are not responsible for their chronic conditions, frankly. They should have prepared for that eventuality before they washed up on our shores, that way we would see that their being here was genuine. More crocodile tears from the “refugee” lawyers and social services employed to “look after” these gate crashers.
Canadians are standing in line for health care services in this country as it is and these people want us to consider one of these “refugees” is the next Einstein. Put them up in your house and fund their health care yourselves. We give citizenship away cheap in this country and that’s why they’re here!
By “we” I assume you mean Progressives.