Bureaucracy, Borders, and Ballots: Canada's Immigration System Faces a Reckoning

A Quebec City couple expecting their second child may owe $20,000 for childbirth costs after months stuck in IRCC processing limbo. Unable to confirm their work permits will be renewed in time, they face the real possibility of losing provincial health coverage right before delivery. It's the sharpest illustration yet of what happens when immigration bureaucracy collides with life's most urgent deadlines — and it's a risk shared by...