Have you been living in Canada and you are only visiting Europe? If you have been out of Canada for over 6-7 months in the past year or for longer you likely haven’t met the residency requirements to qualify for healthcare and will have to reapply for a new health card. The fact that you seem to have moved to different provinces every time you returned to Canada or moved within Canada during a trip back to Canada also complicates whether you met RO to qualify for healthcare and which province would be responsible for paying for your healthcare. Everytime you move provinces you need to reapply for a different healthcard. You have to have met a certsin residency requirement to change provinces and still retain coverage during waiting periods when the previous province usually pays for your healthcare costs during the waiting period yo obtain coverage. If you have only recently received PR or you are reapplying for healthcare you must spend even more time in Canada during that first year to qualify for healthcare. In Alberta for example, you have to be living in Alberta for 12 months to qualify for coverage. To qualify for healthcare you must both meet the residency requirement to qualify for healthcare in thatprovince and have a valid health card. If you have not met the RO to qualify for healthcare and you don’t reapply for another card and use your old one you can be asked to pay back the cost of the healthcare you used so it is important to make sure you followthe residency requirements.The ROs are in place so people don’t only return to access healthcare and ROs usually lead to most being Canadian taxpayers and taxpayer in the province they are accessing healthcare. Rules are actually in place to prevent what you are trying to do. It seems as though you may have been out of Canada for around 1.5 years but want to return to try to access healthcare.
