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Care Plan: Canadian Citizenship and Traffic Heroin

care plan: The hearing comes a day after the Nova Scotia government said it would not provide health coverage to Cramman, who doesnt have Canadian citizenship, according to The Waterloo Record. The 33-year-old mother of four arrived in Canada when she was eight years old but her parents failed to obtain her citizenship. The Elizabeth Fry Society will appear at a hearing to outline the health needs and care plan for Fliss Cramman, who is due to be deported as early as Dec. 16. In 2014, she was convicted of offering to traffic heroin, sentenced to 27 months in prison and detained again when the Canada Border Services Agency looked into her citizenship. By The Canadian Press Darlene Mac Eachern of the Elizabeth Fry Society has asked that Cramman be removed from a detention list and released into its care at a halfway house in Sydney, N.S., to recover from colon surgery. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.