Without closing H&C to parents and reducing length of visit on supervisas Canada is going to end up with a lot of seniors with no status in Canada. They will need to attempt to deport these seniors and there will be a lot of unpaid hospitals bills. Feasibility of PGP should have been examined a long time ago given our HC crisis and our lack of capacity to absorb more seniors. Before people accuse me of something many of the seniors who are currently struggling to access services immigrated to Canada and have lived and worked/paid taxes in Canada for decades. We didn’t have the capacity to increase PGP numbers for the past 5-10 years. The program in general had not been feasible for quite some time given lack of HC capacity. The government should be upfront that parent sponsorship is not guaranteed and that should be a consideration when immigrating to Canada.
