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Non-therapeutic circumcision of children is offensive to many Canadian minorities. The French-speaking people of Quebec and elsewhere generally do not favor circumcision. Male circumcision is not part of the culture of Inuit, First Nations, and Métis populations (4.3%).N
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==History==
on-therapeutic circumcision of children is offensive to many Canadian minorities. The French-speaking people of Quebec and elsewhere generally do not favor circumcision. Male circumcision is not part of the culture of Inuit, First Nations, and Métis populations (4.3% of the population).
Patel (1966) reported his findings on neonatal circumcision in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Patel reported on the complications experienced in a series of 100 consecutive male infants. He also reported on the incidence of circumcision at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Patel
|first=Hawa
|author-link=
|title=The problem of routine infant circumcision
|journal= Can Med Assoc J
|date=1066
|volume=95
|issue=
|pages=576-81
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/patel/
|accessdate=2019-10-25
}}</ref>
Canada, like other English-speaking nations formerly circumcised most of its boys, with circumcision rates in the sixty-seventy percent range in the 1960s.<ref>{{REFjournal
}}</ref>
==Position statements of medical societies.==