A non-verbal 11-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and severe scoliosis that is repositioning her organs could be the face of the Carney government’s recent cuts to refugee and asylum-seekers’ care.
The girl and her mother — who will be identified here as “Emma” and “Olivia,” because Olivia fears using their real names will put them in danger — fled to Canada more than three and a half years ago from Uganda, after Olivia says family members tried to perform witchcraft on Emma to cure her “spiritual” illness, and ostracized them because they believed Emma’s condition was contagious. The two have been living in Toronto since Olivia arrived with a severely malnourished Emma in 2023. They are still waiting for their asylum claim to be heard.
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