Juno News - Migrants receive better healthcare coverage than Canadians

In this episode, I talk about why Canada is giving free health care to illegal immigrants who have crossed into the country illegally, even though they have not even been deemed refugees yet. Why are they being given the same health care as Canadian citizens? And why are they not entitled to it?

00:00:00.000 and basically what I saw was certificates issued by the government that said 20 years so they were

00:00:06.000 issued in February 2020 and they expire in February 2040 and so this whistleblower was basically just

00:00:13.040 really concerned because they'd never seen this before and they didn't really understand why a

00:00:18.200 person who has crossed into Canada illegally someone who's not even deemed a refugee yet

00:00:22.920 they haven't even had their case heard why they are being given health care coverage above and

00:00:28.700 beyond what Canadians receive not just Canadians better health care than veterans better health care

00:00:33.860 than people in indigenous communities better health care than the elderly and homeless people

00:00:38.660 than single mothers better than than anybody why are they given this one of the examples of the

00:00:44.600 documents that I saw was issued to an Iranian woman who was in her 70s and she had just arrived in

00:00:50.260 Canada just made her refugee claim and again she was given a 20-year certificate so presumably for 0.97

00:00:56.000 the rest of her life she's going to be able to receive that gold-plated health care in Canada 0.64

00:01:02.500 that Canadians are not entitled to so on the on the certificate on the document it says the above

00:01:08.960 named individual is eligible for coverage of health care costs under the interim federal health program

00:01:14.040 this coverage can be cancelled without notice if the individual's immigration status changes so

00:01:19.160 according to the form it kind of says well this is what they get until the status changes and then

00:01:23.380 this gets taken away but in practice we know the interim federal health program has become a

00:01:28.660 political punching bag in Canadian politics over the last few years the previous Harper conservative

00:01:34.600 government so before Trudeau was Harper and he made changes to the interim federal health program he

00:01:40.240 basically tried to limit it so that people whose asylum claims were rejected or people who arrived and

00:01:46.600 made asylum claims in Canada but were from like safe European countries or just safe countries the United States

00:01:51.580 Western Europe they didn't get access to this so this was only reserved for true refugees

00:01:56.860 while the media and the Trudeau liberals spun that to make it say that the Harper government was trying to

00:02:03.100 cut health care for refugees even though the people they were cutting were explicitly not refugees a federal court

00:02:10.060 ruled 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

00:02:19.580 for the government to withhold this free health care to illegal immigrants so they scrapped the program and then when the Trudeau

00:02:27.980 liberals 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

00:02:37.180 we 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

00:03:05.180 temporary 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

00:03:35.180 that 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

00:04:05.180 I 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

Juno News - March 11, 2020

Migrants receive better healthcare coverage than Canadians

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