On December 10, while the President of the Philippines, Noynoy Aquino, instructing the Department of Justice to withdraw charges against the 43, the health workers remain incarcerated.  For over 10 month, they live in fear, anxiety, subjet to torture, intimidation, forced confessions, sickness, and in deplorable living conditions. As an act of desparation, the detainees have started a hunger strike on December 3. While we Canadians benefit from the thousands of medical practitioners streaming in from the Philippines to look after our children, elderly, and the sick, Stephen Harper's government watches from the sideline.

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