At 11:33 PM 5/19/01 +0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>Gary Nunn wrote:
> >
> >> I really can't live in Canada. There's a ban on parents of kids with
> >> Down Syndrome.
> >
> > Your kidding about this, right?
> >
>No. I am not kidding.
>
>AFAIK, there's a ban on parents of kids with Down Syndrome
>that want to live in Canada. The argument is that it puts too
>much stress into the (state owned) medical system, etc.
>
>But I might be wrong. I knew that it was so about 10 years ago,
>when an ex-boss found a job in Ca and had to fill a form denying
>a lot of things, including having a Down Syndrome kid. And I
>have just asked this question in the down-syn list, and got the
>same response.
>
>But Ca is not alone; the USA also had this ban [before some
>law changed], Australia probably has it too, and England bans
>unless you are a millionaire.
Dollars or pounds sterling?
-- Ronn! :)
