Canada’s universal healthcare system makes it an attractive place to live, but it’s not perfect. Waitlists can be long and the system costs more each year. Can it cope with tens of thousands of new immigrants? Statistics Canada says the longer immigrants live in Canada, the higher their mortality rate. The CBC’s Vik Adhopia explains the ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect.’ Research: OECD Better Life Index - Canada’s Life Expectancy: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/health/ This OECD country still has the best quality of life: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/these-oecd-countries-have-the-best-quality-of-life Stats Canada - The healthy immigrant effect and mortality rates: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2011004/article/11588-eng.htm The Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-2.5/FullText.html Karen Talosig heartbroken over 4-year wait to bring deaf daughter to Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/karen-talosig-heartbroken-over-4-year-wait-to-bring-deaf-daughter-to-canada-1.2658635 York University prof denied permanent residency over son’s Down syndrome: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/costa-rica-down-syndrome-1.3489120 Council of Canadians with Disabilities - Immigration and Disability: Stephen Hawking Could Never Become a Canadian: http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/socialpolicy/access-inclusion/hawking U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - General classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible for admission, waivers of inadmissibility: https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-2006.html European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Migrants with disabilities: http://fra.europa.eu/en/theme/asylum-migration-borders/overviews/focus-disability »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 75 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.