Court Decision and Refugee Health Care

refugee health care: We have seen a proposed prostitution law carefully crafted to thread its way maybe through perceived loopholes. Now we have a court decision on refugee health care that, if it stands, will doubtless send the lawyers and bureaucrats back to the drawing board to change a hair here, a hair there, to get a bad policy through. , according to Times Colonist. In 2012, the Conservative government reduced or eliminated health-care coverage for many refugee claimants. On Friday, the Federal Court said these changes are unconstitutional. We have reached a strange pass in Canada, when it might be constitutional is becoming a standard defence of government policies. The result is a system of tape-and-chewing-gum fixes to bad laws, which is not a good use of our court system or our Parliament. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.