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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 native culture of indigenous Inuit, First Nations, and Métis populations (4.3% of the population). 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 | 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 | ||
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}}</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 | |title=BC Health Pays to Restore Man’s Foreskin | ||
|url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2006/07/25/Circumcision/ | |url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2006/07/25/Circumcision/ | ||
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}}</ref> | }}</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 | 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 | ||
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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 | 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 | ||
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