Announced this week, the federal government is introducing cuts to the interim federal health plan (IFHP) that gives healthcare access to people who are refugees in Canada. This affects the patients I care for as a doctor.
This is so incredibly cruel and unjust to cut people’s healthcare while simultaneously sending the weapons and arms being used abroad that fuel the reason why some people are being displaced and seek refuge here in Canada in the first place.
The federal government previously introduced cuts to this plan in 2012, and they were eventually reversed in 2016 because of widespread pushback. We can do it again with your help to push back against bad policy that will harm people’s health.