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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
That's an odd stance - the provinces declined funding based on the way it had been offered to be handed out by Trudeau, not because they simply didn't want the money. I can certainly say that immigration is increasing the burden on health care, education and so on. You must be aware that you can get a health card, enroll in school and use other services months (sometimes years) before many will even begin to look at paying taxes or even looking at becoming regularly employed workers.
It is astonishing how removed some people are from how our immigration system actually works. You don't just arrive in the country and suddenly contribute as much as someone that has been living and working here for 10, 15 or 20 years. It takes a very long time to get through the processes and during this time each person or family is drawing far more out than it is putting in.
This is fine, but you do need to expand funding for public services at a rate far beyond what is the lowest in the last 10ish years if you are going to continue to ramp up immigration and deal with your aging and sick population at the same time.
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AB and ON currently have budget surpluses, but they need more money?
They aren’t spending the money they have. They are deliberately under funding healthcare, regardless of whether there is immigration or not.
What makes you think that the AB and ON (and SK and …) governments would spend one extra cent on healthcare than they are today if they did get more money? I have 0 faith in them. The conditions are 100% justified (and no that is not a play on Trudeau’s name)