The immediate past president of the International AIDS Society, Dr. Julio Montaner, says the Conservative government’s crime agenda will jeopardize the health of some marginalized people.
After a public-policy forum at Liberal MP Joyce Murray’s constituency office, Montaner told the Georgia Straight that the government’s omnibus crime legislation, Bill C-10, is “totally counterproductive” and will make it more difficult for physicians to deliver public-health services to people who are poor, First Nations, mentally ill, at risk of HIV, or drug-addicted.
“This law is all about incarcerating the people that this government views as the ‘other Canadians’ for which they have no time for or no interest,” Montaner claimed.