I made my comment with respect to what I felt was the record of the Conservative Party when it was in government. I felt that cutting health care to refugee claimants, a practice that the Federal Court called “cruel and unusual treatment”, is something that demonstrated a lack of compassion for refugees. That is why I made those comments. They were not a personal attack in nature, but a comment on the policies of the previous Conservative government with respect to refugees.
On May 7th, 2018. See this statement in context.