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|title=The story of circumcision
|journal=Can Med Assoc J
|date=July 1927-07
|volume=17
|issue=12
|journal=Paediatr Child Health
|location=
|date=August 2015-08
|volume=20
|issue=6
|journal=Can Urol Assoc J
|location=
|date=February 2018-02
|volume=12
|issue=2
==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>
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
|journal=Can Fam Physician
|location=
|date=February 2013-02
|volume=59
|issue=2