Similar to housing, social services such as health care and education take significant time to be scaled up.  Planning and construction of new hospitals and schools takes takes years, with these costs being borne by provincial governments.  Quebec is the only province in Canada to have gained control of immigration.  And Quebec currently limits immigration at 50,000 per year.  50,000 out of total Canadian newcomers that is now well over 1,000,000.

• Half of Canadians either don’t have a family doctor (19%) or struggle to see the one they have (29%).

• Persistent problems in the health care system have left seven-in-ten (68%) pessimistic there will be improvements to the system in the next two years and more than half (56%) doubtful things will change for the better even five years down the line.

• Those who believe their province does a poor or terrible job measuring health care performance (68%) significantly outnumber those who instead believe their provincial government is doing great or good on this front (24%). Two-thirds (67%) believe health care performance would be improved by their province making key health care performance indicators publicly available.

“The World Health Organization has identified climate change as this century’s single biggest health threat.

Canada is at particular risk — warming at more than twice the global rate. Indigenous, black and other marginalized communities are being hit the hardest, whether due to wildfires, rising sea levels and receding shorelines on traditional territories, or flooding and heat domes in crowded urban centres.

And for physicians, extreme climate events are making patients sicker and reducing care options.”

“Climate change has always been a health issue. We strongly urge governments and policymakers to collaborate on making sustainable, evidence-based choices to slow the impact of climate change today and into the future.” – Dr. Kathleen Ross, CMA president

Excessive demand threshold is the cut-off limit that medical officers use to determine whether the cost of an applicant’s health and social services would exceed 3 times the Canadian average for health and social services, as defined in the Regulations. As of January 1, 2023, the excessive demand threshold is $25,689 per year.

Note: Medical officers should not include the following social services when calculating the costs of health and social services if the foreign national might reasonably be expected to pose a risk of excessive demand on health or social services:

• special education related services, including services related to the preparation of an individualized education plan and educational assistants
• social and vocational rehabilitation services, including services related to rehabilitation facilities, occupational therapy, behavioural therapy and speech language therapy
• personal, non-professional support services, such as assistance with activities of daily living (for example, bathing, dressing, feeding), meal preparation and housecleaning

We no longer have a premier education system. Canadian school performance has been falling for decades. Newcomers to Canada generally put a disproportionately larger load on schools.

School districts across Canada have been coping with thousands of unexpected new students, many of them from immigrant families.  The result of these influxes is a frenzy of activity to find portable classrooms, to recruit teachers, and to assess student needs with respect to learning requirements.  Chaotic mass immigration hurts students.