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Originally Posted by polak
Its 25,000 people. ...
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There are 14,000 severely disabled people in Alberta alone. Most of them live on AISH, which is about $1,400 per month to cover everything - rent, food, clothing. They have very little advocacy and almost no influence in Government policy.
Thousands of poor seniors in Alberta are waiting for a bed in a nursing home due to shortage of funded beds.
Thousands of Albertans are waiting many months and sometimes years to see a medical specialist or have an MRI test done.
There are over 250,000 homeless people in Canada that receive no financial assistance at all other than minimal life-support services through charitable agencies.
I do not have the link to accurate overall costs of taking one refugee but I recall reading it exceeds $200,000 when you account for all kinds of the Government assistance they are entitled to receive.