Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Medical Care

Interim Federal Health Program Dept: And they were forced into a last-minute pitch to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to save part of the interim federal health program, despite having argued some eight months earlier that the proposed policy was flawed, according to CTV. Up until June 30, 2012, the federal government covered the costs of drugs and medical care -- including dentistry and vision care -- for refugee claimants until they had been in Canada long enough for provincial coverage to kick in and oTTAWA -- Civil servants in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration had to scramble to make the case for preserving some refugee health-care benefits destined for the government's cost-cutting axe, newly released documents show. The series of emails and memos released under Access to Information laws seem to contradict Kenney's assertion in June that benefits for resettled refugees were never meant to be axed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.