In 2000, when my wife came to Canada from the USA, they made her do x-rays for TB (even though she was pregnant). They would not bypass this process for any reason. I am not sure why they would be bypassing the normal process now. I guess they gotta meet their quotas.
Was your wife in a war zone? Was she somewhere where the medical conditions are over crowded and primitive at best? Really, aside from draft-dodgers in the sixties, I hadn't heard of refugees from the United States since the Underground Railroad derailed.
Infectious diseases are just as dangerous whether the carrier is a refugee or an immigrant. It's madness to let a contaminated person into the country just because they are refugees.
Not that many years ago tuberculosis was stamped out in Canada. Then it was brought back in by refugees/immigrants. Same thing with head lice. God only knows what else they bring with them!
But I guess that's okay. They've had a hard life so we will all have to lower our standards and take our chances.
As long as 50 years ago all food handlers in Canada had to be tested regularly for TB. I know because I was one of them. It was that vigilance that stamped out the disease.
On Power and Politics last night a certain interviewee was asked twice point blank about the strain the refugees would put on our health care, pointing out that many Canadians don't even have a family doctor.
Twice the question was completely ignored, just some evasive rhetoric about 'we have the health care check covered, we can do it'.
All we hear from the media is glowing reports about the refugee situation. All legitimate concerns are completely ignored. Could it possibly be that the media is instructed to NOT talk about any negative aspects? Surely not in Canada! We have free speech!
Right!