Mr. Speaker, the only response we want in this place is for the minister to reinstate the program to the way it was before the changes he introduced.
Since July 2012, some legitimate refugee claimants no longer have access to health care. We are talking about asthmatic children or pregnant women who are diabetic, people who cannot get basic and essential health care. Furthermore, the government now wants to allow provinces to strip these refugee claimants of their social assistance.
Why is the government continuing to punish these people? Why does it always go after asylum seekers? That is unfair.