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Originally Posted by Azure
No, we should open up our country to anyone who needs help, regardless of how much it will cost us. 
In all seriousness, I find the comments in this thread about how we shouldn't keep people that have pre-existing conditions from receiving proper health care all fine and dandy, but the fact still remains that we can't afford to constantly have people exploiting our 'welfare' system without actually contributing back into society at some point.
A lot of people have come to Canada as refugees and have received care, and in the end they got jobs, started a family, and paid taxes like everyone else. I have no problem with that, and considering the labour shortage, and the fact that a lot of Canadians seem to have a problem with physical work, I would gladly accept more refugees and immigrants who are willing to work a little harder to make things work.
But, when a 70 year man that needs thousands of dollars in health care comes to Canada from Europe as a refugee, I have a hard time accepting that considering there are numerous European countries that could help him too. |
How many 70-year old refugees come to Canada with massive pre-existing conditions? Hell, how many 70-year olds are even alive in a place like Somalia, let alone make it out of the country to Canada as a refugee?
You guys are cooking up these ridiculous and far-fetched examples and throwing them about a) as if they are categorical facts, and b) as if they make up a substantial number of the refugees who come into the country. I'm sure there aren't statistics kept on how old the refugees are and what their medical condition is upon arrival, but we do have a ballpark figure of what health services to refugees costs Canadians, and it's about 75 cents per Canadian. Peanuts.