Joe Oliver: The Office

Health Costs Dept: Outside the office of Joe Oliver, the Tories highest ranking member in the GTA, doctors from all disciplines echoed concerns that the denial of health-care access would increase health costs and jeopardize public health, according to The Star. The federal government would tell you that refugees are coming here for routine dental and vision care, Dr. Philip Berger, head of St. Michael s Hospital s family medicine, said to the cheers of the protesting physicians, all in lab coats, waving placards and a group of physicians briefly occupied a Conservative MP s office Friday, demanding Ottawa rescind its planned cuts to refugees health-care coverage. The protest by the 90 Toronto-area physicians was one of many organized by doctors across the country from British Columbia to Newfoundland against the cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program that will come into effect June 30. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.