Most forms of TB can be relatively easily treated and infection can be curtailed within 2 weeks. Border groups report serious social discrimination on account of the media reporting. For example, refugee children in schools say that other children no longer wish to sit next to them. The link between refugees, especially Tibetan refugees, and a TB health hazard which is now established in the public mind, is discrimination. Any targeting for special treatment must be objective, stated in advance in law and must be reasonable.
Discrimination is something which happens in practice.
It is not a matter of what was intended to happen. Even the best intentioned policies may discriminate in practice. Therefore it is important to set out the normal objective process for identifying and responding to a potential health hazard. Please give ICCR information on the normal policy and practice for identifying and responding to a health hazard among travelers into Canada. Please provide any guidelines which exist.