[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainYooh

And others have also mentioned that this is just a guess, which had not been proven or supported by any serious confirmed information.

Here's one angle:

CRA just published 2014 income tax data stats (it's for 2012 returns though). In summary:
18M tax returns that paid $176B in taxes, or approx. $10K/person/yr
9M tax returns that paid no taxes
8M didn't file (children, status Indians etc.)
35M population total - $176B in taxes - $5,029/person towards national revenue (one average taxpayer supports one average non-taxpayer)
$1.2B = annual tax contributions from 120,000 average Canadian taxpayers

Here's another angle:

Canada will continue budgeting $10B annual debt imbalance for the next two years due to the economy performing much worse than expected.
$1.2B = 12% of the next year budget deficit.

Yes, helping people in need is good and right thing to do. But it has to be prudent and it has to be prioritized to Canadians first. Maybe it shouldn't be 25,000 refugees, considering the economy but a much smaller number.

What is the value of a human life?

I would suspect that if we ran numbers the costs of something like Search and Rescue off the coast wouldn't be worth it.