Immigration Reform
Critical components of Saskatchewan's overall operation and governance require serious attention in the face of the gung-ho SaskParty immigration programs. Here are just a few:
- Health Care - Despite the claims of Saskatchewan's legislative politicians, no amount of foreign labour recruiting can offset an immigration program that increases the population of a region by one percent a year. Immigrating medical professionals are extremely mobile and studies show decisively they go where the money is. It would bankrupt Saskatchewan in just a few years to get into a bidding war of this type that does not focus on compensating local healthcare professionals.
- Education - With the constant school closure game that goes on between the NDP and Saskparty, Saskatchewan's Primary and Secondary school systems are in shambles. Post-Secondary education cannot meet the increased demands and students are being asked to foot the bill leading to massive debt loads. Saskatchewan school systems should have been expanded dramatically beginning nearly ten years ago if today's immigration was going to succeed.
- Housing - The two political parties currently running Saskatchewan's Legislature have let 75,000 immigrants enter Saskatchewan since 2004. This has created a housing shortage. This has caused massive inflation in rent and property tax - doubling and in some cases tripling. This level of inflation is dangerous to any economy Statistics Canada released information that shows almost 60% of immigrants to Saskatchewan leave within two years.
- Taxes - The current tax code requires huge expenditures in economic areas that have very little to do with Saskatchewan's well being. Many of Saskatchewan's needed programs are being inundated with new demands that the province cannot sustain and inevitably generate massive debt than cannot be offset. Significant reform in these areas is required if Saskatchewan is to avoid serious economic problems in the near future.
There are several other important items requiring immediate attention. The current immigration-mania appears to be just more of the Mega-Project-Mania of the 1980's and 1990's that all but bankrupted Saskatchewan for the last two decades.
