‘ Family Class’ immigration reforms a good first step but taxpayers still face significant costs from sponsorship of parents and grandparents

Most recent paper by Martin Collacott of the Fraser Institute on family class immigration and in particular, the Parent and Grandparent family class reforms, advocating further tightening and greater cost recovery. As always, easier for these studies to quantify costs to governments (OAS, healthcare etc) and harder to quantify benefits (e.g., value of childcare and other family-related services), and a costs-benefits comparison with the Live-In Caregiver program would be interesting.

But given the current economic focus of our immigration program, bringing in older family members has fewer economic benefits than younger ones, and the paper argues for a greater financial contribution to cover the additional costs to governments.

Worth reading – haven’t seen much comment on this paper yet.

‘ Family Class’ immigration reforms a good first step but taxpayers still face significant costs from sponsorship of parents and grandparents | Fraser Institute.