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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 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 | |title=Residential Schools in Canada | ||
|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools | |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools | ||
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There was one doctor in P.E.I. who performed non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys and made the incidence of circumcision the highest in Canada. He has now retired, so circumcision is not currently available in P.E.I. | |||
== Position statements of medical societies == | == Position statements of medical societies == | ||
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|quote=The lawsuit, which has not been tested in court, alleges an intern performed the circumcision. | |quote=The lawsuit, which has not been tested in court, alleges an intern performed the circumcision. | ||
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===The handicaps imposed by circumcision=== | |||
[[Dale Andersen| Dale Andersen-Ghiberti, MSW, RSW,]] (2025) has released a new work in [https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/index Critical Disability Discourses], published at [https://www.yorku.ca/ York University], Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the lifelong handicaps imposed by [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Andersen-Giberson | |||
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|author-link=Dale Andersen | |||
|url=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786 | |||
|title=Circumcision and forced disability: Routine male neonatal circumcision and the consequences of amputation within a critical disability studies framework | |||
|journal=Critical Disability Discourses | |||
|date=2025-12 | |||
|volume=10 | |||
|issue=2 | |||
|pages=1-37 | |||
|URL=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786/36016 | |||
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.25071/1918-6215.39786 | |||
|accessdate=2026-03-12 | |||
|quote=In a critical disability studies framework, it is argued that the act of amputating healthy erogenous tissue and the consequences of that amputation cause disability, particularly from a counter-hegemonic lens. | |||
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|accessdate=2026-03-12 | |||
}} | |||
</ref> | |||
==Video== | ==Video== | ||
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<youtube>v=-VP9iO3sbA4&t=359s</youtube> | <youtube>v=-VP9iO3sbA4&t=359s</youtube> | ||
{{SEEALSO}} | {{SEEALSO}} | ||
* [[Dale Andersen]] | |||
* [[Canadian Children's Rights Council]] | * [[Canadian Children's Rights Council]] | ||
* [[Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP)]] | * [[Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP)]] | ||