Only Rich can Afford Super Visa?

I can sympathise with immigrants wanting to have the parents visit –I am a onetime immigrant myself. However, there are all ready provisions for visitor visas, and bringing parents here for two years amounts to not much less than a “landed immigrant” status; since who is going to put ol’ grandma on a flight back home against her wishes?


The requirement of medical insurance, while expensive, is a minimum requirement. Why should Canadian taxpayers foot the bill for the inevitable medical cost incurred by the “visiting” grandparents? One just has to visit a medical clinic in an immigrant neighbourhood here to see the results of the “family reunification” program: elderly parents waiting in line for medical attention, with their children providing translation services.


My hat’s off to the Conservatives for tightening up on this abuse of Canadian hospitality.