Immigrants cost $23B a year: Fraser Institute report

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Immigrants to Canada cost the federal government as much as $23-billion annually and “impose a huge fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers,” according to a think-tank report released Tuesday that was immediately criticized as telling only part of the story.
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The Fraser Institute report (download the PDF here or see it below) says newcomers pay about half as much in income taxes as other Canadians but absorb nearly the same value of government services, costing taxpayers roughly $6,051 per immigrant and amounting to a total annual cost of somewhere between $16.3-billion and $23.6-billion.

2 M+ m% I8 n+ p" U“It’s in the interest of Canada to examine what causes this and to fix it,” said Herbert Grubel, co-author of the report Immigration and the Canadian Welfare State. “We need a better selection process … We’re not here, as a country, to do charity for the rest of the world.”

7 O# ^9 J# f- @6 C( K3 DThe report acknowledges there are “popular propositions” about the benefits of immigration: Young immigrants pay taxes that support social services for Canada’s aging population; immigrants fill the low-paying jobs that others do not seem to want; Canadians are ennobled by allowing people to share in the country’s economic riches; immigration enriches the cultural life of Canadians, and future generations end up repaying their parents’ debt by earning an average or above-average living in the long run.
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Mr. Grubel and economic consultant Patrick Grady argue, however, that these benefits either do not hold up to close scrutiny or that they are simply not worth the economic cost.
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. ~% H6 T/ o+ s. P" Q+ q& c* H* GThe 62-page report used a 2006 Census database to estimate the average incomes and taxes paid by immigrants who arrived in Canada over the period from 1987 to 2004. It found that immigrants paid an average of $10,340 in income tax and other taxes, compared with the $16,501 paid by all Canadians. While newcomers each received $110 less than the rest of Canadians, the “net fiscal transfer per immigrant” still amounted to $6,051 annually. The study examined the incomes of adults exclusively, and assumed the average immigrant pays taxes and receives benefits for 45 years.
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# @/ L0 f9 ?/ P7 t# y! k. ~- {“I’m sure the data behind the numbers is sound, but I think it only tells half the story,” said Rudyard Griffiths, co-founder of the Dominion Institute and author of Who We Are: A Citizen’s Manifesto. “The fact is that we’re doing immigration on the cheap … We don’t spend enough money on language services, and we don’t do enough skills accreditation and training.”

# n& I" v1 Y  C: S% z% G" H  RHe said he is sympathetic to the argument that family reunification is likely burdensome on the tax purse, but said it’s just a “drop in the bucket” given that those visas account for only 11,000 of the 250,000 or so newcomers expected this year.

“The trickier issue is that of the quarter of a million, only about 60,000 are skilled or professional workers,” he said. “Everyone else is dependents.”

# q" `  J3 m8 u- B. O4 Y9 O: T# xMr. Grubel, himself an immigrant who first migrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1956 “with nothing,” maintains that he is not anti-immigration but rather that he believes immigrants should “pay their way in the welfare state.”

He and Mr. Grady argue that the selection process should be revamped to focus on admitting skilled workers who have job offers with Canadian employers. Recent newcomers should also have to post a bond to cover payments for health-care and social services before their parents and grandparents are admitted as landed immigrants.
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Douglas Cannon, a prominent B.C.-based immigration lawyer, said he understands the benefit of the cost calculation, but said it is impossible to attach a price-tag to the benefits of welcoming newcomers.

- v4 z; L4 M9 u9 k( ]$ u4 @“Immigration is, in the end, about people and their futures, their dreams, their hopes — how can you put a dollar amount on that?” he said. “It’s about continuing to make Canada a place of opportunity.”

This was not Mr. Grubel’s foray into calculating the cost of Canada’s immigration policies. In 2005, the Fraser Institute released his study that pegged the 2002 cost at $18-billion, but he said this latest report is more “scientifically rigorous and less liable to attack.”

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移民的费用为每年466：弗雷泽研究所的报告
移民加拿大成本高达联邦政府高达230亿，每年与“加拿大纳税人施加了巨大的财政负担，”根据一个智囊团周二公布的报告立即被讲述的故事只是部分批评。
[菲沙研究所的报告（下载PDF这里查看或看到它下面）说，新来支付在其他加拿大人所得税多一半左右，但吸收几乎政府服务相同的值，花费纳税人约六千〇五十一美元每移民和金额为全年美元之间的某处16.3亿美元和23.6亿美元的成本。“活动，在加拿大利益的审查是什么原因导致这个问题，并修复它，”赫伯特说格鲁贝尔，合作的报告，加拿大移民和福利国家的作者。 。“我们需要一个更好的选择的过程...我们不是在这里，作为一个国家，要为世界各地慈善机构”的报告承认有“流行命题的”关于移民的优势：年轻的移民缴纳税款，支持加拿大的人口老龄化的社会服务;移民填补了低工资工作，其他人似乎并不想要的东西;加拿大人允许人们在该国的经济财富共享高贵，移民丰富了加拿大人的文化生活和后代的最终偿还他们父母的债务收入中的一个长期平均或高于平均水平的生活run.Mr.格鲁贝尔和经济顾问帕特里克格雷迪认为，然而，这些好处要么不抱起来仔细推敲，或者他们根本不值得的经济成本。
4 ^9 X. D9 |& E5 N" |7 x EdmontonThe 62页的报告用了2006年的人口普查资料库，估计平均收入，谁的移民抵达加拿大在1987年至2004年期间纳税。研究发现，移民支付的一〇三四〇美元收入税和其他税收平均水平，比一六五〇一美元所有加拿大人支付。虽然新人各获110美元比其他加拿大人少，“净财政转移每移民”仍达6051美元一次。该研究成年人的收入只，并承担支付的平均税率和接收移民45年的好处。“我敢肯定，后面的数字数据是合理的，但我认为这只是告诉故事的一半，”格里菲思说鲁德耶德共同创办的自治领研究所和我们是谁作者：公民的宣言。 “事实是，我们正在做移民的廉价...我们不花足够的钱语言服务，和我们没有做足够的技能鉴定和培训。”
他说，他同情家庭团聚的说法可能是对税收负担的​​钱包，但他表示这只是一个给定的，那些签证只有25万左右，预计新移民11000帐户“杯水车薪”这一棘手year.The问题是，25万，只有约六万是熟练或专业工作者，“他说。 “其他人都养人。”
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/ D3 e8 z. ]( C  E; O; o格鲁贝尔先生，本人就是一个移民谁首先迁移到美国1956年从德国“一无所有”，认为他不反对移民，而是移民，他认为应该“支付的福利国家的道路。”他和。格雷迪认为，遴选过程应改组，重点放在谁承认有加拿大雇主聘书的熟练工人。最近的新人也应该有发布债券，用于支付医疗保健和社会服务的付款前，他们的父母和祖父母被接纳为降落immigrants.Douglas大炮，一个突出的公元前的移民律师表示，他理解的成本效益计算，但他说这是不可能的附加价格标签的好处，欢迎新来的“移民是，在结尾的人民和他们的未来，他们的梦想，他们的希望， - ？你怎么把一个金额。”他说。 “这是关于继续向加拿大是一个充满机会的地方。”

' L$ a! k  E* Z! ?+ m; D这不是格鲁贝尔先生加入计算，加拿大的移民政策的成本尝试。 2005年，弗雷泽学院发表了他的研究，盯住美元118亿元，2002年的成本，但他称，这一最新报告是更多的“科学严谨，少遭受攻击。”

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