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The Government of Canada established [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools Residential Schools] for the children of indigenous Canadians from about 1880. [[Paul Tinari]], a Métis, attended a residential school near Montreal where he was [[circumcised]] at the age of eight by a Catholic priest and a Jewish [[mohel]]. Tinari states "thousands of young native and Métis boys were [[circumcised]] during their stays in the notorious residential school system."<ref name="euringer2005" />
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==History==
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 native culture of indigenous Inuit, First Nations, and Métis populations (4.3% of the population). the Canadian Government established Residential Schools from about 1880 to assimilate the indigneous people into Euro-Canadian culture.<ref name="residential2021">{{REFweb |title=Residential Schools in Canada |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools |archived= |trans-title= |language= |last=Miller |first= |init=JR |author-link= |publisher=Canadian Encyclopedia |website= |date=2021-06-01 |accessdate=2022-10-26 |quote=}}</ref> The indigenous people who do circumcise today received [[circumcision ]] as a cultural procedure from the English-speaking Canadians in the Residential Schools.<ref name="euringer2005">{{REFnews
|title=BC Health Pays to Restore Man’s Foreskin
|url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2006/07/25/Circumcision/
|date=2006-07-25
|accessdate=2022-08-21
}}</ref> [[Paul Tinari]], a Métis, attended a residential school near Montreal where he was [[circumcised]] at the age of eight by a Catholic priest and a Jewish [[mohel]]. Tinari states "thousands of young native and Métis boys were [[circumcised]] during their stays in the notorious residential school system."<ref name="euringer2005" />
The medicalized genital cutting of infants and children was first promoted in Canada during the mid to late 19th century by English-speakers after the fashion at the time of the [[United Kingdom]]. 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
|accessdate=2020-06-23
}}</ref>
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
|last=Pirie