AIDS expert Julio Montaner says Conservative crime bill will undermine public health

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.

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