It seems there is a baby boom in British Columbia. So much so that the nationalized health care system can’t handle the load.

Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it’s the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system.

“I’m a born-bred Canadian, as well as my daughter and son, and I’m ashamed,” Jill Irvine told FOX News. Irvine’s daughter, Carri Ash, is one of at least 40 mothers or their babies who’ve been airlifted from British Columbia to the U.S. this year because Canadian hospitals didn’t have room for the preemies in their neonatal units.

“It’s a big number and bigger than the previous capacity of the system to deal with it,” said Adrian Dix, a British Columbia legislator, told FOXNews.com. “So when that happens, you can’t have a waiting list for a mother having the baby. She just has the baby.”

The mothers have been flown to hospitals in Seattle, Everett, Wash., and Spokane, Wash., to receive treatment, as well as hospitals in the neighboring province of Alberta, Dix said. Three mothers were airlifted in the first weekend of October alone, including Carri Ash.

The cost to Canada is about $1,000 per birth.

Question: If the babies are born in the US doesn’t that make them US citizens?

It makes me think of what Rudy Giuliani said in Tuesday’s debate about socialized medicine of the sort Hillary and the Democrats would want us to have: “If we have socialized medicine where will Canadians go for health care?” [Paraphrased]

What if you need surgery for your heart or for cancer treatment in countries such as Canada? You wait your turn in line unless you have the means to come to the States and get treatment.

Michael Moore touts the Canadian health system in his film “Sicko”. Maybe he should try it sometime and then tell us how good it is.

This is one of the important reasons to keep the Democrats out of the White House and with no more than a slim majority at the worst in Congress. Otherwise they’ll be sending our mothers to Mexico to have their babies.