It appears that the study included refugee claims in there immigration numbers. That alone skews the numbers toward more social program need.
The bottom line is that for our economy to grow we need population growth so and our current population doesn't have enough kids to even replace themselves therefore immigration is required.
The study also ignores the children of immigrants who at least sterotypically seem to out perfrom the comparable non-immigrant. So those are benefits that take 20 years to show up.
The biggest error overall might me that the average Canadian recieves more in benefits than we pay in taxes. That is a given because Canada has other revenue sorces than personal taxation. Corporate Taxes, Resource Revenues, Crown profits etc. So unless you find out how much less in taxes that the average canadian pays than recieves this study is kind of useless.
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