Members of a thalidomide survivor group say they felt belittled and are appalled after meeting with Kent Hehr, the federal minister for persons with disabilities, and accuse him of making repugnant statements about their life expectancies. Thalidomide Survivors say they were degraded by the Disabilities Minister1:57Sampson said her team wrote to the prime minister directly about the meeting and Hehr later called her to apologize. "My heart goes out to thalidomide survivors. Members of the Thalidomide Survivors Task Group hold a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. Complicating the plot line, a group called the Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada released a statement distancing itself from Tuesday's bombshell news conference.

Source: CBC News December 05, 2017 18:04 UTC