Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq: Announcement

Leona Aglukkaq Dept: HAMILTON - Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq has become the latest federal cabinet minister to be interrupted during a funding announcement event by critics of recent changes to Canada's refugee system, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The two local health care providers, who were calm and polite as they addressed the minister, said the cuts put the health and lives of patients at risk and called for an immediate moratorium and federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq responds to question during an announcement in Ottawa, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Aglukkaq had just announced $7 million in bone health research projects at McMaster University in Hamilton, when two people stood up to protest recent cuts to a federal program that provides extended health-care benefits to refugee claimants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.