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The status of non-therapeutic circumcision in Canada has been poorly reported. This page is an attempt to correct that situation. ==History== 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
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|first=John L.
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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%). ==Position statements of medical societies.==
The [[Canadian Paediatric Society]] took a position against non-therapeutic circumcision of boys in 1975, declaring it to have "no medical indication" and to be an "obsolete operation".<ref>{{REFjournal