Tausende Kanadier erhalten Einladungen, sich bei Sponsoreltern und Großeltern zu bewerben
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/thousands-of-canadians-to-start-receiving-invitations-to-apply-to-sponsor-parents-and-grandparents/?taid=687914b4db4cbf00015473d3&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Great, just what we need. More drain on services and supports that Canadians are already struggling to get access to.
Government: We need to get younger and more productive as a country
Also Government: Let’s bring in thousands of elderly people who’ve never paid into our tax base, will consume public services at a higher rate than young people and will become eligible for non-contributory pensions after enough time.
Good lord.
I’d be fine with completely restricting seniors into the country without a significant capital investment. Zero interest bringing in people that won’t contribute to the economy but will use our social services.
We could use those spots for skilled workers with children (or who want children) that will resupply Canada’s skilled workforce. I don’t care where you come from, what your background/culture/religion etc. is, as long as you’re adding to the GDP. Otherwise, you’re just taking up a spot of someone who could be adding to our GDP either now or in the future.
Do these parents and grandparents get full access to healthcare? We know seniors use healthcare services at a higher rate than younger people. Are we going to bring in a group of people who will put further strain on the healthcare system before we fix a lot of the underlying issues? A lot of Canadians don’t have a family doctor but we’re going to bring in people’s grandparents?
Liberal government going to liberal government, just a complete waste of resources bringing in people who have never paid taxes in Canada but will absolutely use our already over burdened healthcare systems
The insane part about this is how little money you need in order to sponsor people. It’s an amount that is not even close to what is needed to support the people bringing them in, let alone the extra family members they bring in.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/family-sponsorship/sponsor-parents-grandparents/eligibility/income.html
Income required for the 3 tax years before you apply (for the 2025 intake)
Family size 2024 2023 2022
2 people $47,549 $44,530 $43,082
3 people $58,456 $54,743 $52,965
4 people $70,972 $66,466 $64,306
5 people $80,496 $75,384 $72,935
6 people $90,784 $85,020 $82,259
7 people $101,075 $94,658 $91,582
If more than 7 people, for each additional person, add: $10,291 $9,636 $9,324
It feels strange to be told over and over that we need immigrants to lower the population age and then to allow our population to age up by bringing in so many elderly.
As I’m not familiar with this, I do try to reserve judgement. But who is paying their healthcare costs and their social welfare costs? I really have no interest in subsidizing the elderly of another country.
We’re being asked to sacrifice the public service and then we’re bringing in people who will need all the services and resources currently being slashed by Carney.
How?
I’m sorry, the MAJORITY of Canadians do not want this. I voted for Carney but I’m really questioning my decision.
Without context behind this is a bit of a whistle.
We need people in the labour market. What many fail to realize is just because someone immigrates here, does not mean they always stay long term. They may be sending money back home to parents. Better to have that money stay here. Parents or grandparents also join labour market even if it’s providing child care. Without those family supports here in Canada many will struggle without, leave, or continue sending money back home.
There are numbers run on these situations and in the neo-liberalism of our western times, none of these policies exist if they cost more than they bring in down the years. It’s a rare public policy these days that does not have economic capitalist interests behind it and this is not one of those rare ones.
The main argument people had for parental pr was immigrants wanted freedaycare
But with mew cheap daycare there no reason for this program then vote bank politics. People misuse this program tk being parents over to work now
People can come on a super visa stay for a year or two if a baby is born or some othrr issue.
Yeah there private insurance cost but if you cant afford 100 to 300 bucks a month for it for th3 parent you cant afford to take care of them in canada and likely bringing them in to work lol
For reference, this is less than half the target from 2024, and the lowest since 2017 (not counting 2020, where the target was cut in half due to Covid). In 2015 we only accepted 5000 of these.
[Source](https://ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=820&top=14)
Basically we only _just_ caught up to applications that have been in the queue since 2020, and at this rate we will not be getting to 2021 applications until at least 2027. If 2021 sees even half its applications respond, 2022 won’t be handled until possibly 2030.
This is – unlike what a lot of comments are saying here – a _huge_ decline in these sorts of applications.
„IRCC said its goal is to accept up to 10,000 complete applications under the federal Parents and Grandparents Program.“
It’s from a federal program designated for parents and grandparents with a cap on it. The way people are talking you’d think they were trying to replace the workforce with foreign senior citizens and not a pathway for people to bring their families in.
I mean, if you moved to Canada from wherever, and had the opportunity to sponsor your family legally, then you’d probably do it. And again, there’s a cap, not a David Copperfield boat that has unlimited amounts of immigrants.
I hate that we are bringing in more people who will contribute nothing to the country and just use up resources and services.
This is such a bad idea.
The title is designed to anger people. The truth is this is huge decline in numbers and people are being told to apply because quota will be hit a lot sooner.
A lot of angry people. A lot. Can’t read, so angry. Politics aside and immigration policy aside, you should never be so angry you can’t read 🙂
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This is another reason why I’m convinced we need country caps like the US has. It’s not fair to migrant groups from underrepresented countries.
The government is just looking for new ways to tank our economy through immigration. Are we all just fucken crazy?
Yeah. Can’t get behind this. If you can’t be away from mom and dad don’t leave. We can’t take in whole other countries
If we’re going to do this, we should probably impose a „balance-of-family“ test like Australia does. Basically the way the Australian system works is that if the parent/grandparent has more family members abroad than here, they’re not eligible for parent/grandparent PR class because then it isn’t truly „family reunification“ (in many cases, it might even be splitting up a family group abroad).
We still have supervisas, so it’s not like there isn’t an alternative for family caregiving. I imagine balance of family might require legislative changes to IRPA though.