<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi folks,</span><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5718173631"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv5718173631yqt1368155799" id="yiv5718173631yqtfd46686"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica
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clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5718173631yqt3433242462" id="yiv5718173631yqtfd54377"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yiv5718173631y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5718173631"><div class="yiv5718173631yqt9461104631" id="yiv5718173631yqtfd41163"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yiv5718173631y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5718173631"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="yiv5718173631" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="">Many of you will remember that the federal government unilaterally cut the funding for the Interim Federal Health (IFH) program which provided
health care
services for refugees two years ago. After a huge pushback from the community and the provinces, they made some minor changes but the core of the program is still gone meaning that essentially, other than for life-threatening conditions, refugees have no health care.</span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style=""><br clear="none" class="yiv5718173631" style=""></span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="">On Monday June 16th, there will be a Day of Action across
the country and the Ottawa component is a rally at noon on Parliament Hill.
The Community Health Centres are helping to organize it and you can find more information about the IFH program cuts as well as the rally at: </span><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; color: purple; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv5718173631" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/1pyE62p" style="font-size: 10pt; color: purple; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://bit.ly/1pyE62p</a>.</span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These cuts have had drastic effects on refugees since they have no access to any preventative health care and only have 'curative' care covered when they are either a danger to the rest of the community, i.e. have a communicable disease, or face life-threatening illness. In some cases, they are having their care provided in the community by doctors and healthcare providers who aren't being funded to do it which puts a strain on already tight
budgets. Aside from the human cost and the injustice, it does not make economic sense not
to provide primary care to refugees. Fixing problems is rarely as cost-effective as stopping them from happening. </span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">These cuts are wrong on so many levels. Even this government
should understand the cost of lost days at work or school and the benefits of prevention including proper child and maternal care. Aren't they playing the lead internationally on funding child and maternal health programs? Or is that an essential and life-saving medical need only if you live in some other country? When families have to cover their health care costs, those funds have to come out of their food and housing budgets leaving them unable to meet their basic needs. Should people be at food banks, missing work, getting evicted or living with untreated medical issues because, in Canada in 2014, they have no health care?</span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica
Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><span class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We need to continue to push the federal government to reverse their decision and fully fund all health care for refugees across Canada. Please come to the rally on Monday and pass this on to your networks.</span></div><div class="yiv5718173631qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5718173631yqt9422836828" id="yiv5718173631yqtfd97751"><div class="yiv5718173631" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica
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