Grand Erie

Three women on stage holding a framed award certificate at the P2P conference.

In Toronto, 500 people — doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists and social workers — lined the street in front of Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s office on St. Clair St. at Yonge, demanding that Ottawa rescind the plan. […]At the protest, Dr. Meb Rashid, medical director of Crossroads Clinic at Women’s College Hospital, ridiculed Dr. Danielle Grondin, the immigration department’s health director, for signing off the cuts while praising the significance of health care for refugees in a previous presentation. “We come together because what this government is going to do is inflict tremendous hardship on people,” said Rashid. “This is inhumane.”

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1213420–refugee-health-cuts-nationwide-physicians-protest-draws-500-in-toronto