Health ministry investigators are aware of more than two dozen so-called birth houses in B.C. offering pregnant foreign mothers temporary room and board before and after giving birth in local hospitals, according to Freedom of Information documents obtained by Postmedia.
The baby houses, as they are called in Asia, are used by women seeking instant Canadian citizenship for their newborns.
Richmond’s Kerry Starchuk launched an online petition to the House of Commons in June, hoping the federal Liberal government will eventually ban birth tourism unless one of the parents is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
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