That used to be the way it was done. For example, Manitoba had a scheme whereby you could pay an amount of money as a bond for future expenditures. That was cancelled.
There are ways one could move forward and look for compromises such as people offering to pay bonds or provinces agreeing to allow people to come into Canada.
Obviously immigration is a shared responsibility, so any decisions you make you are going to have to discuss with the provinces as well, especially given that the medical expenditures are provincial.
I think when you look overall at the number of people we're talking about, 900, even when some of them have significant costs as a factor of the total amount of money you're spending, it's insignificant in terms of health care dollars, and it creates a whole series of impediments both to family reunification and to having the best and most skilled people come into Canada.
When we look at all of these things, I wonder whether it makes sense to continue with this program.