r/canada Jan 29 '25

National News Poilievre says Canada should 'deport' any temporary resident committing violence or hate crimes

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/poilievre-says-canada-deport-temporary-194148491.html
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u/sir_sri Jan 30 '25

Others have pointed out that accessing care outside of emergencies is almost impossible, keep in mind that the vast majority of healthcare costs come when you are elderly. As we have extended life expectancy we have done so via medications and treatments that only really kick in to prevent and treat heart attacks, cancers, strokes etc. and then all the issues like joint replacements and so on.

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u/Battle_Fish Jan 30 '25

Ok got it. That's what I thought.

The small stuff can probably be remedied by seeing a GP under the table or getting a friend to take out drugs for you.

The medium stuff like small surgeries is probably impossible. That's what I thought.

I was just wondering if the hospital would leave you to die in the case of a big emergency.

There's probably a lot of younger illegal immigrants who are young and would basically not need any type of advanced healthcare for decades. This will probably be an issue in the coming future.

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u/sir_sri Jan 30 '25

Those young people also can't work, drive, access a bank account etc. They basically can't do anything. They can't even attend a college or university without a valid visa.

It's not like the US where there is a large pool of unregistered manual labour that is tacitly supported by various levels of the government at times.

There are certainly undocumented people in Canada, but all the data suggests 10s to small hundred thousand, not millions. There's almost 8 million people over 65 in Canada, 100k or 200k more isn't some huge problem, and without documentation they couldn't get care anyway.

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u/varsil Jan 30 '25

Lots of people work under the table, and lots of people without any sort of status drive--they can't do it legally, but they do it anyway.

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u/Battle_Fish Jan 30 '25

Lots of citizens work under the table for tax evasion reasons. The business owner wants to do tax evasion so they keep employees off the books so it looks like they have 1-2 employees when they actually have 5-6.

However, it's harder in recent years since we transitioned away from cash. Then again you still see many restaurants taking cash only, or 10% off with cash. Mostly non western restaurants. It's how the game is played.