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Canada, like other English-speaking nations formerly circumcised | Canada, like other English-speaking nations formerly circumcised many of its boys, with circumcision rates in the 40 to 70 percent range in the 1960s.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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The Montreal ''Gazette'' (2006) reported that the incidence of circumcision has fallen by 36 percent to 14 percent according to the Association for Genital Integrity, while Statistics Canada reported a high of 29.5 percent in P.E.I. and a low of 1.1 percent in Nova Scotia.<ref>{{REFnews | The Montreal ''Gazette'' (2006) reported that the incidence of circumcision has fallen by 36 percent to 14 percent according to the Association for Genital Integrity, while [https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/start Statistics Canada] reported a high of 29.5 percent in P.E.I. and a low of 1.1 percent in Nova Scotia.<ref>{{REFnews | ||
|title=Rates of circumcision slashed in past 30 years. | |title=Rates of circumcision slashed in past 30 years. | ||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/2006-03-23montrealgazette/ | |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/2006-03-23montrealgazette/ | ||