Comment: Again, good questions, which the Globe refuses to investigate.  If you live here on a visa, you are not paying income tax - so do you get a response when you call 911?  Go to emergency??  Use all other tax-funded services? And so on.  No other rich nation is so dumb.  We need to limit visitors to reasonable, visitor's terms, like 6 months tops, not 10 years.  This question of getting into Canada, for good, and getting your money into Canada, is what drives all the house price frenzy.  If we go back to accepting ONLY the actual immigration target of (about) 300,000 per year, and no more, the housing market will melt.  Hooray, I would say.  These people don't respect Canadian law but they are not dumb - if buying a house, dropping a baby here, or "visiting" for years does NOT get them PR status and eventual citizenship, they will look elsewhere.  Take 300k people, or more, but based on skills, not $$$ and donations to the Liberals.