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Letter: Birth tourism a blight on Richmond, Canada

Dear Editor, We Canadians are slow moving, trusting individuals in a world moving faster and faster. We have laws written when people traveled by steamships. Tens of thousands of people line up to become Canadians.
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Dear Editor,

We Canadians are slow moving, trusting individuals in a world moving faster and faster. We have laws written when people traveled by steamships.

Tens of thousands of people line up to become Canadians. From those applicants, we pick those who can pay their own way and add to our economy. We also select people to unite them with their families. People line up for years.

Or, by paying $8,000 you can have an instant Canadian at  Richmond Hospital’s maternity ward.

I find the creation of a $8,000 fake Canadian very offensive personally and offensive to those thousands of applicants who follow the proper system.

Birth tourism could be stopped in a day by our parliament. Our local MPs seem to be in support of blocking this back door access. If only they could stop bickering over wording, this back door could be closed quickly.

Meanwhile, it was reported that one birth tourism mom stiffed us taxpayers for more than a million dollars in medical charges and now cannot be found.

Until the back door is properly closed, I suggest hospitals charge $75,000 up front to, at least, protect taxpayers.

Nice guys finish last and that is where we are. There is nothing in birth tourism for Canada.

Eric Sykes

RICHMOND