A Conference Board of Canada analysis produced for the premiers states that health care costs are increasing by 5.4 per cent a year. Nearly half of that increase is due to inflation, while 19 per cent is due to an aging population and 18 per cent is due to population growth.
and, that's not just true for health care - it's true for policing, for housing, for education...
while previous immigration policies largely paid for themselves, this government is responsible for undoing that by bringing in large amounts of refugees and focusing on family reunification. it's not paying for itself anymore, and that's a big part of what the premiers are trying to tell the feds.
the flip side is that, if the feds won't pony up, they should give the provinces more control over immigration. but, we can't continue with a system where the feds just dump people into the country with minimal screening and tell the market to figure it out, in the process collapsing provincially run social systems that don't have the local funding sources to adjust.
what they need is a formula that calculates these variables and adjusts for it yearly so this constant haggling isn't necessary.
and, what they need is higher taxes to pay for these unsustainable levels of refugee resettlement, if that is what we insist on continuing to do.