Immigration Act medical inadmissibility provision survives constitutional challenge.
In a decision issued on 27 June 2002, the Federal Court of Canada ruled that the medical inadmissibility provision of the Immigration Act did not infringe sections 7 or 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Although the Immigration Act was repealed effective 28 June 2002 with the coming into force of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), the court's reasons are relevant to some HIV-positive people seeking admission to Canada under the new legislation.
D002170:Canada; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans