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Immigration officials debated calling Canada’s healthcare “free” in newcomer ad

Internal emails reveal Canada’s immigration department was told to stop calling Canadian healthcare “free” when promoting it to foreigners, after a controversial ad did just that.

Clayton DeMaine
Nov 11, 2025
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Internal emails reveal Canada’s immigration department was told to stop calling Canadian healthcare “free” when promoting it to foreigners, after a controversial ad did just that.

As first reported by the Blacklocks Reporter, a response to an access to information has shown that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s staf…

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A journalist with Juno News focused on telling Canadian stories often over looked by the legacy media. Published on Juno News, True North, the C2C Journal and Durham College's The Chronicle.
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