Chris Alexander and Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Citizenship and Immigration Canada: S immigration minister truculently announced Tuesday that the government will comply with a Federal Court ruling obliging it to provide health care to asylum-seekers, for now. Chris Alexander also said the Harper government is appealing the decision. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced in 2012 it would no longer pay for health benefits for refugee claimants and privately sponsored refugees the first year they are in Canada. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander CP The decision of the federal government to cut funding in the first place is baffling, particularly to those who provide services for refugees in Canada. Moreover, it is disingenuous to spin the reason for axing the program as economic rather than what it is, ideological. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.