Tom Denton and Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Citizenship and Immigration Canada: "Plain nasty" is how the executive director of Hospitality House Refugee Ministry, Tom Denton, describes the government. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. In 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced it would no longer pay health benefits for refugee claimants and privately sponsored refugees during their first year in Canada. Both groups went to court to fight the cuts. Advocates for refugee claimants won their case while the privately sponsored refugee advocates lost their case and couldn't afford to appeal, said Denton. THE federal government said it will resume providing some extended health coverage to some refugee claimants but privately sponsored refugees may still have to fend for themselves. On Tuesday, it said it would bow to a Federal Court of Appeal ruling and resume providing things, such as insulin, to some people claiming refugee status. It didn't mention restoring such benefits for privately sponsored refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.