00:00:00.000and basically what I saw was certificates issued by the government that said 20 years so they were
00:00:06.000issued in February 2020 and they expire in February 2040 and so this whistleblower was basically just
00:00:13.040really concerned because they'd never seen this before and they didn't really understand why a
00:00:18.200person who has crossed into Canada illegally someone who's not even deemed a refugee yet
00:00:22.920they haven't even had their case heard why they are being given health care coverage above and
00:00:28.700beyond what Canadians receive not just Canadians better health care than veterans better health care
00:00:33.860than people in indigenous communities better health care than the elderly and homeless people
00:00:38.660than single mothers better than than anybody why are they given this one of the examples of the
00:00:44.600documents that I saw was issued to an Iranian woman who was in her 70s and she had just arrived in
00:00:50.260Canada just made her refugee claim and again she was given a 20-year certificate so presumably for
00:00:56.000the rest of her life she's going to be able to receive that gold-plated health care in Canada
00:01:02.500that Canadians are not entitled to so on the on the certificate on the document it says the above
00:01:08.960named individual is eligible for coverage of health care costs under the interim federal health program
00:01:14.040this coverage can be cancelled without notice if the individual's immigration status changes so
00:01:19.160according to the form it kind of says well this is what they get until the status changes and then
00:01:23.380this gets taken away but in practice we know the interim federal health program has become a
00:01:28.660political punching bag in Canadian politics over the last few years the previous Harper conservative
00:01:34.600government so before Trudeau was Harper and he made changes to the interim federal health program he
00:01:40.240basically tried to limit it so that people whose asylum claims were rejected or people who arrived and
00:01:46.600made asylum claims in Canada but were from like safe European countries or just safe countries the United States
00:01:51.580Western Europe they didn't get access to this so this was only reserved for true refugees
00:01:56.860while the media and the Trudeau liberals spun that to make it say that the Harper government was trying to
00:02:03.100cut health care for refugees even though the people they were cutting were explicitly not refugees a federal court
00:02:10.060ruled in favor of that sort of left-wing perspective the liberal point of view and a federal judge said that it was cruel and unusual it's a quote cruel and unusual
00:02:19.580for the government to withhold this free health care to illegal immigrants so they scrapped the program and then when the Trudeau
00:02:27.980liberals came in they made all kinds of changes to the refugee determination program to make it a lot more generous a lot more easy a lot easier for refugees to come and make claims and get the free health care so you know even though the form says that this the interim federal health program can be taken away if the person's immigration status changes we know that in practice the Trudeau government will not take the
00:02:37.180we know that in practice the Trudeau government will not take it away because they accused the Trudeau they accused the Harper government of being cruel for taking this away so basically what's supposed to be a temporary program what's supposed to be a limited program is the opposite 20 years is not temporary and the whole idea that it's limited to the
00:03:05.180temporary and the whole idea that it's limited is not true because it literally includes all the kind of health care including things that Canadians are not eligible so I think it's a big story I reached out to the government and basically asked like what's going on is this new when did this come about and I received several responses from them saying look we're working on this we're going to get you an answer we're going to figure something out and then they just never got back to me they never they never gave me a response they never gave me an explanation about this I think Canadians deserve an explanation
00:03:35.180that a person who might not even have a person who might not even have a real claim to be a refugee just because someone says they're a refugee they actually have to prove it that the whole point of our system is that you have to provide evidence and prove to an immigration judge that you are in fact a refugee that you do face a well-founded fear of persecution and the people who are being given the health care the gold-plated 20-year access health care cards haven't proven that yet so why is it that foreign foreign nationals people who are not permanent residents
00:04:05.180I think it's a big story I think it's a big big story and I wish that the mainstream media would pay attention to these kind of things because I think that Canadians really really care about them