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Taxpayer spending on asylum seeker healthcare skyrockets by over 1100%

Program includes pharmaceuticals, vision care, counselling, assistive devices, prosthetics, homecare, nursing homes, physiotherapy, and occupational speech therapy

Clayton DeMaine
Sep 17, 2025
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New government data reveals a staggering 12-fold increase in spending on medical procedures for asylum claimants over just nine years under the Liberal government.

The government data released Tuesday revealed that the Liberal’s have drastically increased spending on the Interim Federal Health Program. The federal government rele…

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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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