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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).

he Canadian Government established Residential Schools from about 1880 to assimilate the indigneous people into Euro-Canadian culture.<ref name="residential2021">{{REFweb

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

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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 ==

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The ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (1982), [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e Section 7] provides every Canadian with the right to ''security of the person''.<ref name="chhrp2018" />

In addition, Canada is a state-party to the United Nations ''[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]'' (1966) and the ''[https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx Convention on the Rights of the Child]'' (1989), both of which provide various [[human rights]] to children, which are violated by non-therapeutic child circumcision.

In addition, Canada is a state-party to the United Nations ''[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]'' (1966) and the ''[https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx Convention on the Rights of the Child]'' (1989), both of which provide various [[human rights]] to children, which are violated by non-therapeutic child circumcision. Svoboda, Boyle, & Price (2000) have declared infant male circumcision to be an unlawful violation of Section 7.<ref name="svoboda2000">{{REFweb

|url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Everyman_4-00.pdf

|title=Circumcision of Boys: A Serious Male Health Problem

|last=Svoboda

|first=

|init=JS

|author-link=J. Steven Svoboda

|last2=Boyle

|init2=GJ

|author3-link=Gregory J. Boyle

|last3=Price

|init3=CP

|author3-link=Christopher P. Price

|publisher=Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

|date=2000

|format=PDF

|accessdate=2026-07-26

}}</ref>

[[Margaret A. Somerville]], then Director of the [https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2010-2011/faculties/law/information/law_centre_for_medicine_ethics_and_law McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law], wrote to Pierre Blais in 1993, then Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, to propose that "male circumcision would not be totally banned. Rather circumcision of those persons unable to consent for themselves (which would, of course, include all infants) would not be allowed under the Criminal Code as it presently stands." However, no action was taken.<ref>{{REFweb

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===Estimates of prevalence and incidence of circumcision in Canada===

The incidence of child circumcision in Canada has been in a long-term declining since the 1980s.

The incidence of [[child circumcision]] in Canada has been in a long-term declining trend since the 1980s.<ref>{{REFweb

|url=https://www.reddit.com/answers/0ed39a4d-8136-4f36-8b44-5da3f230d180/?q=Circumcision%20norms%20and%20preferences%20in%20Canada&source=PDP&tl=en

|title=Circumcision norms and preferences in Canada

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|publisher=Reddit

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|accessdate=2026-03-24

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Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the NORM in all parts of Canada and has been for several decades. The last statistics were collected in 2006-7, so they are completely out-of-date. In the absence of any current statistical data, IntactiWiki offers the following estimates for 2026:

Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the NORM in all parts of Canada and has been for several decades. The last statistics were collected in 2006-7, so they are completely out-of-date. In the absence of any current statistical data, IntactiWiki offers the following estimates for 2026:

Prevalence of circumcision is the percentage of all living Canadian males of all ages who are [[circumcised]]. The [[circumcised]] group is primarily composed of older English-speaking males. IntactiWiki estimates the prevalence of [[circumcision]] is about 25-30 percent.

Prevalence of circumcision is the percentage of all living Canadian males of all ages who are [[circumcised]]. The [[circumcised]] group is primarily composed of older English-speaking males. IntactiWiki estimates the prevalence of [[circumcision]] is about 25-30 percent.

Incidence of circumcision is the percentage of Canada-wide newborn boys who are currently receiving [[child circumcision]]. This percentage will vary by locality. Many of these circumcised boys may have older [[circumcised]] fathers who [[Adamant father syndrome| adamantly insist that their son be circumcised]]. IntactiWiki estimates 10-15 percent of newborn boys are currently undergoing harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[child circumcision]].

Incidence of circumcision is the percentage of Canada-wide newborn boys who are currently receiving [[child circumcision]]. This percentage will vary by locality. Many of these circumcised boys may have older [[circumcised]] fathers who [[Adamant father syndrome| adamantly insist that their son be circumcised]]. IntactiWiki estimates 10-15 percent of newborn boys are currently undergoing harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[child circumcision]].

===Doctor cuts off tip of infant boy's penis===

A woman in Regina, Saskatchewan sued a physician after the tip of her son's [[penis]] was cut off during a [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFnews

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===The handicaps imposed by circumcision===

[[Dale Andersen| Dale Andersen-Ghiberti, MSW, RSW,]] (2025) has ~~published~~ a new work in Canada on the lifelong handicaps imposed by [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal

[[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

|init=D

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|volume=10

|issue=2

|URL=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786

|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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==Video==

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* [[Dale Andersen]]

* [[Canadian Children's Rights Council]]

* [[Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP)]]

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|quote=Instead of coming down on one side of the debate, the [[Canadian Paediatric Society]] could help parents more by offering guidance that clearly spells out the potential advantages and risks of [[circumcision]], without bias or omission.

}}

* {{REFnews

|title=Regrowing my foreskin: How I’m overcoming the trauma of infant circumcision

|url=https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2021-01-21/postscript/regrowing-my-foreskin/

|last=Anonymous

|first=

|coauthors=

|publisher={{UNI|Queen's University|Queen's}} Journal

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|date=2021-01-21

|accessdate=2026-04-29

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* {{REFweb

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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).
-he Canadian Government established Residential Schools from about 1880 to assimilate the indigneous people into Euro-Canadian culture.<ref name="residential2021">{{REFweb
+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
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   |quote=
 }}</ref>
+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 ==
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 The ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (1982), [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e Section 7] provides every Canadian with the right to ''security of the person''.<ref name="chhrp2018" />
-In addition, Canada is a state-party to the United Nations ''[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]'' (1966) and the ''[https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx Convention on the Rights of the Child]'' (1989), both of which provide various [[human rights]] to children, which are violated by non-therapeutic child circumcision.
+In addition, Canada is a state-party to the United Nations ''[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]'' (1966) and the ''[https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx Convention on the Rights of the Child]'' (1989), both of which provide various [[human rights]] to children, which are violated by non-therapeutic child circumcision. Svoboda, Boyle, & Price (2000) have declared infant male circumcision to be an unlawful violation of Section 7.<ref name="svoboda2000">{{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Everyman_4-00.pdf
+ |title=Circumcision of Boys: A Serious Male Health Problem
+ |last=Svoboda
+ |first=
+ |init=JS
+ |author-link=J. Steven Svoboda
+ |last2=Boyle
+ |init2=GJ
+ |author3-link=Gregory J. Boyle
+ |last3=Price
+ |init3=CP
+ |author3-link=Christopher P. Price
+ |publisher=Attorneys for the Rights of the Child
+ |date=2000
+ |format=PDF
+ |accessdate=2026-07-26
+}}</ref>
 [[Margaret A. Somerville]], then Director of the [https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2010-2011/faculties/law/information/law_centre_for_medicine_ethics_and_law McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law], wrote to Pierre Blais in 1993, then Minister for Justice and Attorney-General, to propose that "male circumcision would not be totally banned. Rather circumcision of those persons unable to consent for themselves (which would, of course, include all infants) would not be allowed under the Criminal Code as it presently stands." However, no action was taken.<ref>{{REFweb
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 ===Estimates of prevalence and incidence of circumcision in Canada===
-The incidence of child circumcision in Canada has been in a long-term declining since the 1980s.
+The incidence of [[child circumcision]] in Canada has been in a long-term declining trend since the 1980s.<ref>{{REFweb
+ |url=https://www.reddit.com/answers/0ed39a4d-8136-4f36-8b44-5da3f230d180/?q=Circumcision%20norms%20and%20preferences%20in%20Canada&source=PDP&tl=en
+ |title=Circumcision norms and preferences in Canada
+ |last=
+ |first=
+ |init=
+ |author-link=
+ |publisher=Reddit
+ |date=
+ |accessdate=2026-03-24
+}}</ref>
-Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the NORM in all parts of Canada and has been for several decades. The last statistics were collected in 2006-7, so they are completely out-of-date. In the absence of any current statistical data, IntactiWiki offers the following estimates for 2026:
+Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the NORM in all parts of Canada and has been for several decades. The last statistics were collected in 2006-7, so they are completely out-of-date. In the absence of any current statistical data, <b>IntactiWiki</b> offers the following estimates for 2026:
-<b>Prevalence of circumcision</b> is the percentage of all living Canadian males of all ages who are [[circumcised]]. The [[circumcised]] group is primarily composed of older English-speaking males. IntactiWiki estimates the prevalence of [[circumcision]] is about 25-30 percent.
+<b>Prevalence of circumcision</b> is the percentage of all living Canadian males of all ages who are [[circumcised]]. The [[circumcised]] group is primarily composed of older English-speaking males. <b>IntactiWiki</b> estimates the prevalence of [[circumcision]] is about 25-30 percent.
+<b>Incidence of circumcision</b> is the percentage of Canada-wide newborn boys who are currently receiving [[child circumcision]]. This percentage will vary by locality. Many of these circumcised boys may have older [[circumcised]] fathers who [[Adamant father syndrome| adamantly insist that their son be circumcised]]. <b>IntactiWiki</b> estimates 10-15 percent of newborn boys are currently undergoing harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[child circumcision]].
-<b>Incidence of circumcision</b> is the percentage of Canada-wide newborn boys who are currently receiving [[child circumcision]]. This percentage will vary by locality. Many of these circumcised boys may have older [[circumcised]] fathers who [[Adamant father syndrome| adamantly insist that their son be circumcised]]. IntactiWiki estimates 10-15 percent of newborn boys are currently undergoing harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[child circumcision]].
 ===Doctor cuts off tip of infant boy's penis===
 A woman in Regina, Saskatchewan sued a physician after the tip of her son's [[penis]] was cut off during a [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFnews
@@ Line 1,149: / Line 1,179: @@
 }}</ref>
 ===The handicaps imposed by circumcision===
-[[Dale Andersen| Dale Andersen-Ghiberti, MSW, RSW,]] (2025) has published a new work in Canada on the lifelong handicaps imposed by [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
+[[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
   |init=D
@@ Line 1,159: / Line 1,189: @@
   |volume=10
   |issue=2
-  |URL=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786
+ |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.
+  |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.
-}}</ref>
+ |format=PDF
+ |accessdate=2026-03-12
+}}
+</ref>
 ==Video==
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 <youtube>v=-VP9iO3sbA4&t=359s</youtube>
 {{SEEALSO}}
+* [[Dale Andersen]]
 * [[Canadian Children's Rights Council]]
 * [[Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP)]]
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   |format=
   |quote=Instead of coming down on one side of the debate, the [[Canadian Paediatric Society]] could help parents more by offering guidance that clearly spells out the potential advantages and risks of [[circumcision]], without bias or omission.
+}}
+* {{REFnews
+ |title=Regrowing my foreskin: How I’m overcoming the trauma of infant circumcision
+ |url=https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2021-01-21/postscript/regrowing-my-foreskin/
+ |last=Anonymous
+ |first=
+ |coauthors=
+ |publisher={{UNI|Queen's University|Queen's}} Journal
+ |website=
+ |date=2021-01-21
+ |accessdate=2026-04-29
+ |quote=
 }}
 * {{REFweb