The Hongcouver by Ian Young

Canadian hospital sues mother of million-dollar baby, amid growing concern over Chinese birth tourism

Dozens of ‘baby houses’ have sprung up in British Columbia to house pregnant Chinese women seeking automatic Canadian citizenship for their children, with one in five births at Richmond Hospital involving non-resident mothers

Ian Young

Published: 6:30am, 13 Jun, 2018

Updated: 11:33am, 14 Jun, 2018

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Ian Young is the Post's Vancouver correspondent. A journalist for more than 20 years, he worked for Australian newspapers and the London Evening Standard before arriving in Hong Kong in 1997. There he won or shared awards for excellence in investigative reporting and human rights reporting, and the HK News Awards Scoop of the Year. He moved to Canada with his wife in 2010.