Shackles removed from hospitalized woman facing deportation: minister
HALIFAX — An ailing woman who is facing deportation to England has been freed from shackles that kept her restrained in her hospital bed following the intervention of two Nova Scotia cabinet ministers, one of whom said he was appalled by her treatment.
Health Minister Leo Glavine said Thursday he thought restraining Fliss Cramman was “very inappropriate,” and had discussed the issue with provincial Justice Minister Diana Whalen.
“When I have a view of a person chained to a bed, it brings back the 19th century not the 21st,” Glavine told reporters.
Cramman, who has been in the country since she was eight years old but is not a Canadian citizen, has undergone a series of surgeries after being rushed to hospital from a prison facility in Dartmouth, N.S., last month.