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Originally Posted by acottawa
Family unification is a pretty small percentage and parents/grandparents is a pretty small percentage of that (about 17,000 last year). And they can't collect OAS (which is based on years spent in Canada).
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17,000 is huge! Say the net fiscal cost of a parent/grandparent through the family reunification system is something like $100,000 in present value (I think this is conservative). Then the program costs $17 billion annually, or $500 per person every year. That is a massive and unfair fiscal burden.
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