A federal program to provide health care to refugees and asylum claimants that a decade ago cost just $60 million a year is expected to cost taxpayers close to $1 billion this year. And according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the program will cost more than $1.5 billion annually by the end of the decade.
If a criminal refugee claim is rejected as false, and the person ignores an order to leave Canada, we still pay their supplemental health coverage: vision, dental, pharma, physio etc.
These are benefits that law-abiding, tax-paying Canadians do not get!
In November, we exposed… pic.twitter.com/pgJjEbnJnO
— Matt Strauss (@strauss_matt) February 13, 2026
