Let me ask you one thing,when(probably in the early 80s/90s) you and your parents immigrated to Canada,Canada had only a few doctors available against thousands of Canadians?did you stop migrating to Canada because of this?weren't you putting extra pressure to Canadian health care system then?did someone advocated the same stop immigration to you/your parents when you immigrated?probably not which is why you are a Canadian immigrant now....
And can you guarantee that health care crisis will be solved totally if they stop parents immigration?they haven't stopped any immigration because of the current healthcare and housing crisis,then why pointing out only a single immigration stream?
And crisis is inevitable sometimes,you just need to learn to live with it....
I was born in Canada. My parents came from Norway at different times. My father was much older. He was in the age 60 bracket when I was born. A bit unusual in many parts of the world, except in the world of Hollywood movie stars fathering kids into their 80s. Kudos to my dad's indomitable Viking spirit!
Early 80s/90s misses the mark by a bit. My dad arrived at Halifax on a CP steamship in December 1926 at age 21. I doubt he was much of a burden on healthcare. I would guess it was a bit different then. My father came with a brother, leaving 7 younger siblings behind. They had replied to ads and accepted a CP Rail offer to come to Canada, free ship passage, in exchange for committing to work for CP for one year. My dad was sent to a place north of Cochrane, Ontario to cut cordwood to fuel the locomotives. My uncle was sent to northern Manitoba to do same. They made a pact to quit after one year, get to Toronto and find each other. A bit difficult in those days since cell service was crappy and Facebook unreliable
They managed to meet up, as agreed. They worked in construction for a time, carrying bricks in a hod and such like. After awhile, my uncle shuffled off to Chicago and stayed there. My dad joined him there for a year and studied at a technological institute (I have his graduation diploma) and returned to Canada. His first trip home to Norway was in 1953. Before that, there was a war in there somewhere and trans-Atlantic flights were not the order of the day much before 1950. Even then, to fly to England from Toronto required a stop at Gander, Newfoundland, to refuel.
And can you guarantee that health care crisis will be solved totally if they stop parents immigration?they haven't stopped any immigration because of the current healthcare and housing crisis,then why pointing out only a single immigration stream?
And crisis is inevitable sometimes,you just need to learn to live with it....
No, of course I cannot guarantee. There is no simple, one-step fix.
Why single out a single stream? Seems sensible to take a hard look at the stream(s) that produce the least benefit to Canada, overall. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that countries usually adopt immigration policies designed to provide some overall long-term benefit to the country. Bringing in skilled labour can be seen as a net benefit. Bringing in labourers can also be of benefit if there is a labour shortage. In general, bringing in younger, willing-to-work and pay taxes people seems to make sense. On a cost/benefit analysis, bringing in people who are up in years, their working lives in the rearview mirror, more likely to require medical services, seems to me to be less of an enhancement to the common weal.
As for the inevitability of crisis, I disagree. Should it not be a hallmark of good governance that our elected officials have wisdom and foresight and an ability to avoid crises? I think it fair to say there are many in Canada at present who believe that what appears as a healthcare and housing crisis could have been avoided by good planning. I think I am in that camp. If you plan to bring in 500,000 immigrants in any year, it would seem to be a course of prudence to have addressed in advance the impact on healthcare and housing and to have things in place, instead of trying to address a problem that was foreseeable and manifested due to a lack of coordinated planning.