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Starting June 1, 2018, Canada will no longer reject immigrants based on existing health conditions. We will begin accepting sick immigrants who will immediately be a drain on our social welfare system.

Canada’s long-standing policy has been to reject immigrants with serious health issues and disabilities. Since the creation of our publicly-funded universal health care program, the government has restricted immigrants with severe health problems.

Prudent politicians on the left and the right agreed it was only fair to taxpayers to say ‘no’ to those who would pose an excessive burden on our health and social services.

We don’t want to displace Canadians who have paid into the system their entire lives, and we don’t want to create incentives for severely ill people from around the world to come to Canada just to take advantage of our “free” health care.

This Liberal government, however, has walked away from this consensus. And if that isn’t bad enough, they’ve admitted they don’t know how much these changes will cost taxpayers.

A parliamentary committee studying the issue found that an analysis of the costs “simply didn’t exist or had significant gaps.”

The report states that the Liberal government didn’t study the “cost increases that may result from repealing” this rule, “the actual costs related to administering the system,” “the costs associated under a repeal scenario,” “the economic impact,” or if repealing this rule “would result in an increase of applications with high medical and social service needs.”