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Andrea Horwath’s proposal to turn Ontario into a sanctuary province will carry a $2.5-billion price tag for new health-care expenses, front-line physician group Concerned Doctors of Ontario says.

That’s not something the NDP leader has costed into her campaign platform.

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It’s not something Horwath has been willing to discuss.

Instead, when questioned on her plan to “make local services accessible to all residents, regardless of their immigration status,” Horwath has responded with bumper sticker platitudes – variations of “it’s the right thing to do” or we “can’t afford not to.”

Those are deflections, not answers.

Making a political decision to make Ontario a sanctuary province is one thing. The cost of that decision is entirely another.

If Horwath believes her own campaign rhetoric, she needs to say what programs or services she plans to cut, or what taxes she plans to raise to pay for her promise to expand government programs to include, in the case of health-care coverage, a half-million undocumented residents according to CDO.