Bill S-201

• Cancer group hopes new non-discrimination law will encourage more genetic testing

  If patients learn they have a genetic risk for disease, they must tell their insurance provider, but that could soon change.

  Health

  Apr 24, 2017
  
• Genetic non-discrimination bill unconstitutional: Trudeau 

  The bill would make it illegal for life and health insurance companies to force people to undergo genetic testing or disclose the results of previous tests.

  Canada

  Mar 8, 2017
  
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• MPs to debate controversial bill on genetic testing after intense lobbying

  After a flurry of intense lobbying from insurance companies, health charities, a handful of provinces and the justice minister herself, the fate of a controversial genetic testing bill is now in the hands of Parliament.

  Canada

  Mar 7, 2017
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• Liberal MP Rob Oliphant announces bill to prevent genetic discrimination

  MP Rob Oliphant announces the introduction of Bill S-201, an Act to Prohibit and Prevent Genetic Discrimination.

  Canada

  May 3, 2016