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1st Session, 36th Parliament,
46 Elizabeth II, 1997
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-282
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An Act to amend the Canada Health Act
(linguistic duality)
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| R.S., c. C-6;
1995, c. 17;
1996, cc. 8, 11
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Her Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate and House of Commons
of Canada, enacts as follows:
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1. Section 7 of the Canada Health Act is
amended by striking out the word ``and'' at
the end of paragraph (d), by adding the
word ``and'' at the end of paragraph (e) and
by adding the following after paragraph
(e):
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2. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 12:
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12.1 In order to satisfy the criterion
respecting linguistic duality,
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(a) as soon as possible, the province shall,
in co-operation with the facilities of the
province that offer insured health services,
develop a program ensuring access to
health services for members of the
province's anglophone or francophone
minority and, in so doing, shall take account
of the human, material and financial
resources of each facility and the social,
cultural and linguistic characteristics of the
members of the public served by the
facility;
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(b) the provincial health insurance plan
shall offer insured health services in the
language spoken by the members of the
anglophone or francophone minority of the
province, taking into account the
organization of human, material and
financial resources of the province's
facilities that offer such services and, where
applicable, in accordance with any program
ensuring access under paragraph (a); and
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(c) as soon as possible, the province shall
take action to ensure that the management
of any facility in the province that offers
insured health services is placed entirely in
the hands of members of the province's
anglophone or francophone minority,
where the number of users from the
anglophone or francophone minority is
sufficient to warrant that action.
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