Health Condition: Committee Wednesday and C States

health condition: Section 38-1C states that a person can't be admitted to Canada if they have a health condition that might reasonably be expected to cause excessive demand on health or social services.''The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration is studying medical inadmissibility criteria for newcomers at the request of provincial and territorial ministers and has heard from numerous groups who argued the rules discriminate against people with disabilities and should be scrapped, according to Metro News. Hussen appeared before the committee Wednesday, capping three days of hearings, and said the current rules that have been in place for 40 years are in need of an overhaul. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said he's committed to changing the rules currently spelled out in the country's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and left the door open to the possibility of repealing the controversial section altogether. This provision needs to be changed. I personally think this provision is out of date in terms of looking at those two things. It's simply not in line with our government's policies with respect to moving towards an accessibility agenda, but also with ... how Canadians are increasingly of the opinion that we should be more inclusive as a society, Hussen said before the committee. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.