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GGG · 11-20-2015, 04:22 PM

In general the children of immigrants are better educated then the average Canadian which in theory correlates well with income. So one measure of repayment would be does the gap in income between immigrant children cover the cost of settling their parents. I'm lazy though and don't feel like doing the digging. And I don't know if it holds true for refugees as a subset of immigrants

Or another fun way of looking at is we are getting people who are relatively educated and children who have been born and as a country we didn't have to pay for those costs so being born cost about 2200 for a simple birth and about 1k in pregnancy care so just to get out a healthy baby costs $2000. Now mat leave you get 1k every two weeks so that is 24k in the first year. you also get your child tax credit of 2k per year so by the end of year one Canada has spent about 30k on every child.

Then you start educating the kids at about 7k per year.

So if you are getting an 18 year old with a high school diploma who just needs English training for 48k I think you are getting a good deal. A random Canadian would cost 147k to get to that point. this excludes health care costs outside of being born and any low income supplements.

11-20-2015, 04:22 PM	#424
GGG Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: California Exp:	In general the children of immigrants are better educated then the average Canadian which in theory correlates well with income. So one measure of repayment would be does the gap in income between immigrant children cover the cost of settling their parents. I'm lazy though and don't feel like doing the digging. And I don't know if it holds true for refugees as a subset of immigrants Or another fun way of looking at is we are getting people who are relatively educated and children who have been born and as a country we didn't have to pay for those costs so being born cost about 2200 for a simple birth and about 1k in pregnancy care so just to get out a healthy baby costs $2000. Now mat leave you get 1k every two weeks so that is 24k in the first year. you also get your child tax credit of 2k per year so by the end of year one Canada has spent about 30k on every child. Then you start educating the kids at about 7k per year. So if you are getting an 18 year old with a high school diploma who just needs English training for 48k I think you are getting a good deal. A random Canadian would cost 147k to get to that point. this excludes health care costs outside of being born and any low income supplements.