How do the measure a person's value ... economics? Family? That's the question at the heart of John Chipman's documentary, The Accountant's Dilemma, which tells the story of an Indian airline executive who wanted desperately to bring his skills ... along with his wife and children ... to Canada. One problem: his 11-year-old daughter is autistic. In every way but that one, Krishnan Balakrishnan is exactly the kind of immigrant Canada wants.

He speaks perfect English, is wealthy, highly educated in a sought-after field and, best of all, he had a job waiting for him when he stepped off the plane from Mumbai.

But his daughter has autism ... and eventually, she would have rights to subsidized services in Canada.

On the one hand, he is a worker with much to offer Canada and the Canadian economy. On the other, he is a father whose family could be a burden on Canada's social system.

Balancing those two realities has turned what could be a picture-perfect immigration application into a painful, drawn-out process that has destroyed a friendship, strained a family and destabilized a Canadian business.