{"id":15928,"date":"2017-05-16T11:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=15928"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:47:28","slug":"submission-to-the-standing-committee-on-citizenship-and-immigration-on-medical-inadmissibility","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/submission-to-the-standing-committee-on-citizenship-and-immigration-on-medical-inadmissibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on Medical Inadmissibility"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;In Canada, people seeking permanent resident status or temporary residence as students or workers can be rejected on the basis of their HIV status due to the &#8216;excessive demand&#8217; provision of Canada\u2019s laws governing medical inadmissibility.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">&#8220;We recommend that the excessive demand provision be repealed, for the following reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The excessive demand provision is discriminatory.<\/li>\n<li>The excessive demand provision poses many operational problems.<\/li>\n<li>The excessive demand provision undermines the objectives of the <em>Immigration and Refugee Protection Act<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The excessive demand provision violates Canada\u2019s international law obligations and is not in line with other countries\u2019 practices.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Submission to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on Medical Inadmissibility\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/15922\/?tmstv=1776754585\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[150],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-15928","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-immigration-and-travel","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/15928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/15928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21573,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/15928\/revisions\/21573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=15928"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=15928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}