so you are ok for other PRs and Citizens to pay for your health care but not for their own parents? Interesting!

It is a great idea to increase the number of invitations in the Parents and Grandparents Program in 2018, but I have a hard time of understanding the urgency of it. Why would IRCC rush to increase the number of 2018 potential sponsors while it is very clear that the office is unable to handle the current work load? when you inquire about the Canada Immigration Processing Times, it shows that the office is currently processing applications received before November 4, 2011! that is right, for someone who applied to sponsor her/his grandma or mom in 2010 when she was 70 years old is still waiting! she is now almost 80, if not dead! The sponsor’s children who hoped to enjoy the great grandma or their grandma in they upbringing are now teenagers or they have let home to live on their own far away from home, the grandma who had 100% vision in 2010 now requires magnifier tools to recognize her daughter or son let alone grand children! Meanwhile, the sponsor has paid more than $1000 for this application and the families in Canada and in the applicant’s country have been living an “adjusted” life style to accommodate the change which is still hasn’t materialized after 10 years. This sounds like torture to me. The office should focus on cleaning up the current backlog of applications instead of creating a new pile of files that will actually not be looked after for another 5 years or more. The IRCC should focus on adequately staffing itself and ensure that the waiting time is reduced to 12 months or less otherwise it not worth the effort.

At 70, I am seriously looking to leaving this Country. I need to relax and be happy. It is no longer possible here in Canada. 4 generations, and I am now some kind of “enemy”.