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Non-therapeutic circumcision of children is not part of the culture of many Canadian minorities. The French-speaking people of Quebec and elsewhere generally do not favour circumcision. Male circumcision is not part of the culture of indigenous Inuit, First Nations, and Métis populations (4.3% of the population).
The medicalized genital cutting of infants and children was first promoted in Canada during the mid to late 19th century. Doctors encouraged the genital cutting of both male and female children to prevent masturbation as well as various diseases like epilepsy and tuberculosis.<ref name="chhrp2018">{{REFdocument
|title=International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy Supplementary Country Report Submission on Canada to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child
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Pirie (1927), in a presentation to the Canadian Society for the Study of Diseases of Children, described circumcision as "very common".<ref name="pirie1927">{{REFjournal