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 Still (1972) described infant circumcision as a "an outdated and unnecessary procedure".<ref name="still1972">{{REFjournal |last=Still |first= |init=H |author-link= |etal=no |title=Circumcision - an outdated and unnecessary procedure? |journal= Can Fam Physician |location= |date=1972-01 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=51-2 |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2370328/ |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=20468719 |pubmedCID=2370328 |DOI= |doi= |accessdate=2025-01-09}}</ref> 

NonExcision of healthy functional tissue that occurs with non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of children is a practice that is of uncertain dubious lawfulness in Canada. The ''Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (1982), [https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-rights-protected/guide-canadian-charter-rights-freedoms.html#a2e Section 7] provides every Canadian with the right to security of the person.<ref name="chhrp2018" />

<b>The historic survey by the Public Heath Health Agency of Canada is now well out -of -date and cannot be relied on for current information.</b>

[[Circumcised]] males are found mostly in older age groups. The incidence of child circumcision in Canada varies by province, but the overall incidence is believed to be one-half or less than that of the [[United States]]where the [[United_States_of_America#Incidence_of_circumcision| incidence of circumcision]] also is declining. It is now estimated that about 25 less than 20 percent or 1 out of 4 5 boys in Canada are currently being [[circumcised]].The prevalence of [[circumcision]] in the whole population constantly declines as elderly, mostly [[circumcised]] males die off and are replaced in the population by mostly [[intact]] boys. [[Foreskinned]] males are in the majority in every province and territory. ===Abusive promotion of non-therapeutic circumcision in Ontario===Dr. Omar Afandi, an Ontario paediatrician, improperly accessed hospital records at [https://www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor General Hospital] and elsewhere to learn the names of mothers who had given birth to a boy. He then telephoned the mothers to offer them an unnecessary [[circumcision]] in his clinic in Windsor. The records of as many as 800 mothers may have been accessed.<ref>{{REFnews |title=Windsor doctor has privileges revoked after allegedly accessing newborn data for profit |url=https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/windsor-doctor-has-privileges-revoked-after-allegedly-accessing-newborn-data-for-profit-1.6977821 |last=Fortnum |first=Travis |init= |author-link= |last2= |init2= |author2-link= |publisher=CTV News |website= |date=2024-07-26 |accessdate=2024-09-05 |format= |quote=}}</ref> Ontario Health Insurance Plan does not pay for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], so parents would have to pay out of pocket for the harmful unneeded surgical amputation at WE Kidz Pediatrics.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/oh-no-canada/ |title=Oh (no) Canada! |last=Ashford |first=Jeannie |init= |author-link= |publisher=Intact America |date=2024-08-16 |accessdate=2024-09-05}}</ref> The Information and Privacy Commission fined Dr. Afandi $5,000 and fined We Kidz Paediatrics $7,500.<ref>{{REFnews |title=Windsor, Ont., doctor fined after wrongfully accessing health records to offer circumcision services |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-doctor-1.7621211 |last=La Grassa |first=Jennifer |init= |author-link= |publisher=CBC |website= |date=2025-08-29 |accessdate=2025-08-30 |format= |quote=}}</ref> ===Overcharging for minor procedure===The [https://www.cps.sk.ca/imis/CPSS/College_of_Physicians_and_Surgeons_of_Saskatchewan.aspx Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons] has charged [https://www.cps.sk.ca/imis/CPSS/Physician_Summary/Physician_Profile.aspx?ID=8041 Dr. Amith Mulla] with three offences arising from the performance of an [[adult circumcision]]. Dr. Mulla has been charged with:* charging $1,795 for a circumcision procedure.* failing to provide followup care.* asking for pictures of the patient's [[penis]].<ref name="simes2024">{{REFnews |title=Saskatoon doctor facing professional charges in circumcision case |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/10906122/saskatoon-doctor-facing-professional-charges-in-circumcision-case/ |last=Simes |first=Jeremy |init= |author-link= |publisher=The Canadian Press |website= |date=2024-12-06 |accessdate=2024-12-07 }}</ref>===Leading promoters===[[Neil Pollock]] and his group are leading promoters of harmful, medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys in Canada.===Counseling for circumcised men===[[Dale Andersen]], MSW, provides counseling in southern Ontario to [[circumcised]] men who are troubled by the grief, [[trauma]], [[depression]], and loss of [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| function]] associated with involuntary [[amputation]] of their [[foreskin]]. ===Care of foreskinned boys===Circumcision is now nearly a thing of the past, and most Canadian boys now have an [[intact]] [[foreskin]]. Alberta Health (2024) has published guidance on the care of the natural, normal, [[foreskinned]] [[penis]].<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Health/aftercareinformation/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=abo1357 |title=Learning About How to Care for an Intact Penis |last=Healthwise |first=Ignite |init= |author-link= |publisher=Alberta Health |date=2024-10-24 |accessdate=2025-09-24}}</ref>===Third-party payment is not available===

There is a long-standing general consensus for at least a half-century that there are no medical indications for [[Foreskinnedcircumcision]] males appear in the newborn period.<ref name="cps1975" /> <ref name="cps1996" /> At the beginning of the 21st Century, only the Manitoba Health Insurance Plan (HIP) still paid for non-therapeutic circumcision, however Manitoba HIP ended payment in 2006.<ref name="skeldon2008" /> No insurance coverage of non-therapeutic circumcision is currently available in Manitoba,<ref name="dm2024">{{REFweb |url=https://doctorsmanitoba.ca/managing-your-practice/remuneration/billing-fees/surgery/neonatal-circumcision |title=Neonatal Circumcision |publisher=Doctors Manitoba |date=2024-07-16 |accessdate=2024-11-26}}</ref> and this is also true throughout Canada.<ref name="allan2024">{{REFbook |last=Allan |first= |init=JA |author-link=Jonathan A. Allan |year=2024 |title=Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin |url=https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Uncut |chapter=Chapter 2: Circumcision Indecision |pages=88-9 |location=Regina |publisher=University of Regina Press |ISBN= 978-1779400307 |accessdate=2024-10-06 }}</ref> Only "medically indicated" circumcisions (which are very rare) are covered.<ref name="dm2024" />===The incidence of circumcision varies widely by region===The incidence of non-therapeutic child circumcision Labrador and Newfoundland is reported to be close to zero while Saskatchewan had an incidence of circumcision in the majority 2000 and 2001 of 27.6 percent. The Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons said in every province 2002 that was much too high and territoryshould be reduced substantially. The Registrar, Dr. Dennis Kimble, said, "they [doctors] aren't required to carry out a procedure simply because parents want it done."<ref>{{REFnews |title=Sask. college wants circumcision rates reduced |url=http://www.cirp.org/news/medicalpost03-18-02/ |last=Driver |first=Deana |coauthors= |publisher=Medical Post |website= |date=2002-03-19 |accessdate=2021-07-22 |quote=}}</ref>

* Most hospitals do not provide non-therapeutic circumcision, however so any parents who want to have a son circumcised must seek out a provider and pay out-of-pocket. ([https://www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor Regional Hospital] is an exception to the general rule. Windsor Regional Hospital still promotes medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to parents of normal, healthy male infants in apparent violation of the infants' [https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art7.html Section 7 rights]. The hospital is reported to circumcise 51 percent of boys born in the hospital. This is far higher than the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision elsewhere in Ontario and Canada.<ref>{{REFnews

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* DeMaria et al. (2013) surveyed physicians in southwest Ontario who still perform circumcisions. They concluded from their survey:

* The CBC (2018) reported that Pakistani [https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/78555/Dr-Ejaz-Ahmad-Winnipeg-MB.html/ Dr. Ejaz Ahmad], who practiced medicine on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, had been suspended from the practice of medicine for five months by the [https://cpsm.mb.ca/ College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba], after he performed 18 circumcisions from June 2016 to July 2017 on pediatric patients and two boys almost bled to death.<ref name="glowaki2018">{{REFnews

* Manitoba Services (2022) reported Winnipeg attorney [https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/martin-j-pollock/76357 Martin Pollock] filed a Statement of Claim on 22 June 2022 in the Court of Queen's Bench on behalf of the Muslim mother of a five-year-old boy who was circumcised in Portage la Prairie in 2017. The suit names [https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/ Manitoba Health] and three health care workers as defendants. The mother "alleges in the lawsuit that the injuries suffered by her son were caused or contributed to by the negligence of the two doctors, the nurse and the health region named in the suit, which led to 'severe and permanent injuries.'"<ref>{{REFnews

* As of 2022, [[third-party payment]] for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] has not been available anywhere in Canada since 2006.<ref name="skeldon2008" /> Moreover, non-therapeutic circumcision is not done in most hospitals,<ref name="jamesloewen2019" /> so parents who want to have a boy [[circumcised]] must take the boy to the surgery of a practitioner who specializes in harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic male circumcision, and furthermore must pay out of pocket. For example, the cost of circumcision of a newborn boy in New Brunswick is C$425 ranging up to C$1500 for a teenager or adult.<ref>{{REFweb

* The prevalence of circumcision is higher among older males, but lower among younger males. As older, mostly [[circumcised]] males die and are replaced in the population by younger, mostly [[intact]] males, the overall prevalence of [[circumcised]] men in Canada is gradually declining. [[Intact]] males usually do not want any son to be [[circumcised]],<ref name="brown-brown1987" /> <ref name="rediger-muller2013" /> so the demand for [[circumcision]] in Canada is declining.

* Mayan et al. (2021) carried out a massive empirical study of the male population of the province of Ontario, Canada (569,950 males), of whom 203,588 (35.7%) were [[circumcised]] between 1991 and 2017. The study concluded that circumcision status is not related to risk of [[HIV]] infection.<ref name="mayan2021">{{REFjournal

* Schröder et al. (2021) reviewed the experience of the [https://www.sickkids.ca Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto with regard to circumcision-related emergency admissions between 2000 and 2013. They found that 19 previously healthy neonates had emergency admissions for [[Risks and complications| circumcision complications]]. The records of patients who had died were searched to identify those who had been [[circumcised]].

* Four of the boys had post-circumcision [[bleeding]]. Four of the boys had [[glans]] amputations. Two previously healthy boys died.<ref name="shroder2021">{{REFjournal

* Non-circumcision, [[intactness]] or [[genital integrity]] has long been the NORM in all parts of Canada. ===Estimates of prevalence and incidence of circumcision in Canada===Non-circumcision or [[genital integrity]] is the norm NORM in all parts of Canadaand has been for several decades. The last statistics were collected in 2006-7, so they are completely out-of-date. In the absence of any statistical data, IntactWiki offers the following estimates for 2026: <b>Prevalence of circumcision</b> is the percentage of all living Canadian males of all ages who are [[circumcised]]. This group is primarily composed of older English-speaking males. IntactiWiki estimates the prevalence of [[circumcision]] is about 25-30 percent.

===Abusive promotion <b>Incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision in Ontario===Dr. Omar Afandi, an Ontario paediatrician, improperly accessed hospital records at [https:<//www.wrh.on.ca/ Windsor General Hospital] and elsewhere to learn b> is the names percentage of mothers newborn boys Canada-wide who had given birth to a boy. He then telephoned the mothers to offer them an unnecessary are currently receiving [[child circumcision]] in his clinic in Windsor. The records This percentage will vary by locality. Many of as many as 800 mothers these boys may have been accessed.<ref>{{REFnews older [[circumcised]] fathers who [[Adamant father syndrome|title=Windsor doctor has privileges revoked after allegedly accessing newborn data for profit |url=https://windsoradamantly insist that their son be circumcised]].ctvnews.ca/windsor-doctor-has-privileges-revoked-after-allegedly-accessingIntactiWiki estimates 10-15 percent of newborn-data-for-profit-1.6977821 |last=Fortnum |first=Travis |init= |author-link= |last2= |init2= |author2-link= |publisher=CTV News |website= |date=2024-07-26 |accessdate=2024-09-05 |format= |quote=}}</ref> Ontario Health Insurance Plan does not pay for boys are currently undergoing harmful, unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[child circumcision]], so parents would have to pay out of pocket for the harmful unneeded surgical amputation at WE Kidz Pediatrics.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://intactamerica.org/oh-no-canada/ |title=Oh (no) Canada! |last=Ashford |first=Jeannie |init= |author-link= |publisher=Intact America |date=2024-08-16 |accessdate=2024-09-05}}</ref>

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