Recent immigrants cost taxpayers $16B a year


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Rucking Fetard   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 19-03-12 15:17:31

The common refrain is that Canada needs immigration to mitigate current and future labour shortages and to help pay the medical bills for our aging population.

The Fraser Institute says hogwash to that. The sometimes controversial right-wing think tank says recent immigrants are actually a huge burden to Canadian taxpayers.

According to its report released Thursday, those who arrived in Canada between 1987 and 2004 received about $6,000 more in government services per immigrant in 2005 than they paid in taxes.

\"Immigrants arriving in Canada since 1987 are not doing as well economically as immigrants who arrived before 1987,\" said Herbert Grubel, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-author of the study titled Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada: Responding to Critics and a Revised Estimate.


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/recent-immigrants-cost-taxpayers-over-16-billion-canada-225603638.html



tamilkuravan   
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Post ID: #PID Posted on: 20-03-12 06:16:42

Good statistics.
This will motivate more people from India to migrate to Canada to get the benefits and thus leave many more job's free in India.

Way to go, Canada !!!

Peace


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