Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Refugees In Canada

Health Care Dept: Kenney will take matters to a new low, cutting health care at the doorstep and arbitrarily detaining many who seek safety here, according to The Star. That is where Byron's story comes in. Being 38 years old and being shot at for your political views in Guatemala, seeing family and friends beside you gunned down, then fleeing for your life to Canada doesn't get you refugee status. Working here for five years, paying taxes and volunteering with youth in your community, while trying to appeal your refugee denial, also gets you nothing no status, no health care. Then getting cancer, well, just go away and die young man. So, that's what he did. Turned down for lifesaving cancer treatment time and time again, Byron died, emaciated, on his apartment floor, never having taken a red cent from this country, but having given everything. What Guatemalan political thugs couldn't accomplish, Canada did and on June 30, an already bad situation for refugees in Canada will get much worse. Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney will end life-saving health-care benefits for Canada's refugees. Making matters worse for vulnerable refugees fleeing for their safety is hardly what Canadian governments are elected to do. Passing regressive and life-harming legislation that hurts the most vulnerable has thousands of Canadian health-care workers physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, dentists, midwives and others up in arms in our streets across Canada, demonstrating. In what can only be described as thinly veiled mean-spiritedness, he smugly proclaimed I don't like being taken for a sucker, when describing the rationale for his new legislation. Really? How paranoid. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.