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Originally Posted by edslunch
Helpfully, data about inter-provincial migration was not available to the report writers. This is from page 51 of the report:
There’s also this fun fact in the report:
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A pretty simple google search showed a report from the Fraser Institute (complaining about health care burden on BC), that showed in 2020 Alberta had a positive net inter-provincial migration of people 65+ but BC had ~4x the volume of net migration and Ontario also had higher net migration, basically everywhere else was equal or negative. Because Quebec has their own pension scheme and far and away had the highest net negative inter-provincial 65+ migration, it makes the report a little hard to shake out. But fair to assume a fair amount of pension contributions from Alberta a being paid out in BC because of migration.
Point being the benefit of this program is individualized, so looking at the net benefit for a province when all individuals regardless of province are being treated equally is a bit of a misnomer at best.