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Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans (HIPs) — one for each of the ten provinces and three territories and a 14th plan for government employees. The British Columbia HIP stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in 1984. Ontario HIP stopped payment for non-therapeutic circumcision in July 1995; Saskatchewan stopped in 1996. One by one, all other HIPs have stopped paying for non-therapeutic circumcision. In 2006, Manitoba HIP was the last to stop, but only after the wrong boy was [[circumcised]] at [http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/ St. Boniface Hospital].<ref>{{REFnews
Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans (HIPs) — one for each of the ten provinces and three territories and a 14th plan for government employees. The British Columbia HIP stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in 1984. Ontario HIP stopped payment for non-therapeutic circumcision in July 1995; Saskatchewan stopped in 1996. One by one, all other HIPs have stopped paying for non-therapeutic circumcision. In 2006, Manitoba HIP was the last to stop, but only after the wrong boy was [[circumcised]] at [http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/ St. Boniface Hospital].<ref>{{REFnews
  |title=Circumcision mix-up
  |title=Circumcision mix-up
  |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/canadacom11-18-05/
  |url=https://www.cirp.org/news/2006/2006-07-18_winnipegfreepress.php
  |last=
  |last=Skerrit
  |first=
  |first=Jen
  |publisher=Canada.com
  |publisher= Winnipeg Free Press
  |accessdate=2019-10-26
  |accessdate=2024-10-08
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  |title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada
  |title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada