Posted AT 4:26 AM EDT on 20/05/08
Ottawa should not pay for sex-change operations, MP says
OTTAWA — A Conservative MP does not want the federal government to pick up the tab for Ontario's plan to cover sex-change surgery under the province's health insurance program.
Ottawa-area Tory MP Pierre Poilievre said Sunday he'll write to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty this week asking that federal health transfers to the province pay only for "vital" health-care treatments, and not sexual reassignment surgery.
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