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==Non-availability of third-party payment==
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 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. 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].<refname="skeldon2008">{{REFnews
|title=Circumcision mix-up
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/canadacom11-18-05/
|publisher=Canada.com
|accessdate=2019-10-26
}}</ref> <ref>{{REFdocument
|title=The Medicalization and Resultant Decline of Circumcision in Canada
|url=https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/1880/47498/2008_HMD_Skeldon.pdf?sequence=1
|contribution=
|last=Skeldon
|first=Sean
|publisher=University of Calgary
|format=PDF
|date=2008-03
|accessdate=2022-06-24
}}</ref>
[[Third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic circumcision is not presently available anywhere in Canada.<ref name="skeldon2008"/> <ref name="jamesloewen2019">[[James Loewen]] (2019). Personal communication.</ref> Parents who wish to have a son circumcised must pay out-of-pocket for the costs of the circumcision.<ref name="rediger-muller2013">{{REFjournal
|last=Rediger
|first=Chris