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First off, I’m not sure where scarlet fever threatens the Canadian population. Secondly, people in medical emergencies are already treated in our hospitals.

No hospital would leave someone dying outside over the lack of a OHIP card.

What Horwath and the NDP are proposing is extending full health coverage to people who are in the country illegally and for the most part, not part of the system. That means they won’t be paying taxes to support the health care they are using.

The estimate by COD is likely to be low for a couple of reasons.

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Horwath is not only promising to extend health coverage to everyone regardless of status, she is promising to expand coverage. She’s promised a $500-million-a-year pharmacare program and a dental-care plan that would cost $1 billion annually by year five of her plan.

Those programs would also be extended to anyone that showed up.

Can you imagine being an American living in Buffalo, Detroit or Port Huron, Michigan and unable to afford your dental bills? Don’t worry, just get an OHIP card.

Don’t think that is feasible?

What would stop it? Horwath wants the system open to all.

What about people coming from overseas to visit relatives and then getting medical care while here? It could happen.

We can also expect that if Andrea Horwath becomes premier and declares Ontario a sanctuary province, more people would come for that very reason.

It happened with Trudeau’s tweet.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted out #WelcometoCanada in January 2017 and caused a stampede to our borders. The people coming into Canada illegally are costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Those costs will only rise as the number of people coming increase.