It's 1.5%, about half a million people. We're talking about adding a thousand people to that every year. Again, it sounds de minimis. It sounds like something that comes out in the wash. It sounds like the number of high-cost users in the immigrant population remain statistically the same as the Canadian population. Forcing this dehumanizing act of quantifying their additional.... As a class of a thousand, each one of them feels it. Forcing the government to do that just seems to me unnecessary and overly bureaucratic, and it would not change the transfer because it's de minimis.
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