[ernie]

Originally Posted by Knalus

I'll make up a few numbers, too. If each Mexican coming here to Canada on Vacation spends a week here, and spends approximately $2000 per week on a trip, that results in $532,000,000 in spending that Mexicans bring into the country every year. If this is cut in half, that's a cost to the Canadian Economy of $266,000,000. The Mexican portion of the refugee claims is only 3,648, bringing the cost to the government to 3,648*29,000=$105,792,000 - resulting in a net loss to Canada of -$160,208,000 per year of operation, not counting the costs of diplomatic coolness between two close countries.

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Your number make a poor assumption. That assumption is that all 266,000 Mexican tourists decide to not to come to Canada because of the Visa requirement. I doubt that is the case. Just as I doubt all the bogus refugee claims will be eliminated. As you say the number will be 10,000 refugee claims year after years because that is what the system can provess. The difference is if you eliminate a good chunk of the bogus claims a larger percentage of those 10,000 claims are VALID claims...and isn't the valid what the system is supposed to be considering in the first place? Claims from people who actually are being persecuted not the claim of someone who simply wants to move.