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  |title=The story of circumcision
  |title=The story of circumcision
  |journal=Can Med Assoc J
  |journal=Can Med Assoc J
  |date=July 1927
  |date=1927-07
  |volume=17
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  |issue=12
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  |journal=Paediatr Child Health
  |journal=Paediatr Child Health
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  |date=August 2015
  |date=2015-08
  |volume=20
  |volume=20
  |issue=6
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  |journal=Can Urol Assoc J
  |journal=Can Urol Assoc J
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  |date=February 2018
  |date=2018-02
  |volume=12
  |volume=12
  |issue=2
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==Availability of third-party payment==
==Availability of third-party payment==
Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans — 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 the 1980s. 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. 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 |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/canadacom11-18-05/ |last= |first= |publisher=Canada.com |accessdate=2019-10-26}}</ref>
Canada has fourteen single-payer health insurance plans — 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 the 1980s. 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. 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
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/canadacom11-18-05/
|last=
|first=
|publisher=Canada.com
|accessdate=2019-10-26
}}</ref>


Third-party payment for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada. Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal
Third-party payment for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada. Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal
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  |journal=Can Fam Physician
  |journal=Can Fam Physician
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  |date=February 2013
  |date=2013-02
  |volume=59
  |volume=59
  |issue=2
  |issue=2