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  2. Canadian Children's Rights Council - Wikipedia

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    The grounds on this position is that such a mandatory process would uphold a child's right to have contact with their biological fathers. [12] While the organization is a children's rights group, one scholar and a few media outlooks view the organization and its president as men's [4] [10] [3] and fathers' rights advocates.

  3. Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada

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    Recommendation 44 – Federal and provincial governments should prevent potential challenges to Canada’s health care system by: Ensuring that any future reforms they implement are protected under the definition of “public services” included in international law or trade agreements to which Canada is party; and reinforcing Canada’s ...

  4. Healthcare in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Canada Health Act covers the services of psychiatrists, medical doctors with additional training in psychiatry. In Canada, psychiatrists tend to focus on the treatment of mental illness with medication. [66] However, the Canada Health Act excludes care provided in a "hospital or institution primarily for the mentally disordered."

  5. Child care in Canada - Wikipedia

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    According to the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) 249-page annual report, "Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2019", which was partially funded by the federal government's Employment and Social Development Canada's (ESDC) Social Development Partnerships program, past attempts at advancing child care programs have been made in 1984, 1987, 1993, 2003, and 2005.

  6. Social programs in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Compared to other single-payer health systems in the world, Canada is unusual in banning the purchase of private insurance or care for any services that are listed. This is meant to prevent what is described as 'two-tier healthcare', which would allow the rich to "jump the queue". However, in 2005 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Chaoulli v.

  7. Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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    This right has generated significant case law, as abortion in Canada was legalized in R v Morgentaler (1988) after the Supreme Court found the Therapeutic Abortion Committees breached women's security of person by threatening their health. Some judges also felt control of the body was a right within security of the person, breached by the ...

  8. Refugee health care in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a “right to health” has been recognized in a number of international rights instruments to which Canada is a party. [4] It was first articulated in the 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organization as “the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health."

  9. Jordan's Principle - Wikipedia

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    In January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, a Canadian legal institution with a mandate to adjudicate cases where there has been an alleged breach of the Canadian Human Rights Act, found that the Government of Canada's improper implementation of Jordan's Principle resulted in discrimination against First Nations children and youth on the basis of race and national ethnic origin and ...