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Foreign migrant living illegally in Canada eligible for Ontario welfare, tribunal rules
(nationalpost.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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This sends a message (add it to the giant pile of them) to the world that Canada is easily exploitable. Come here illegally, stay long enough and we’ll give you a free ride.
easily exploitable? do you even KNOW how much a person on Ontario Works can get? ESPECIALLY SINCE HE'S HOMELESS?
HEY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, COME GET YOUR FREE $343 A MONTH FOR 6 MONTHS!!!!
fucking idiot.THAT is how much a homeless person in Ontario gets a month from Ontario Works. $343. that's it. a month.
that's enough for MAYBE a few days worth of food for a homeless person. How do I know? I lived it.
if you could only eat for a few days on $343, you must have been a terrible homeless person
I'd say 26 years working and trying to find work for 2+ more years is long enough for EI benifits. MPs get a pensions after only 6 years.
I assume he wasn’t paying taxes into the system by working cash jobs.
You can read the article, it says so two paragraphs in.
What about these employers that are avoiding paying into EI and the other programs?
Jail time for fraud.
Those employers are bad. Ask the real question you want to ask.
Judging by your incredibly racist comment, you currently lack the mental capacity to read more than a sentence.
2026-1997 = 29
Twenty-nine years of work. That is not a free ride dumbass. Actually read the article before you share your racist viewpoints, and then please do share them so we can clown on you.
Even if they weren't working, one would have to ask, why not? Is it actually malicious, or something else? All in all, how can we help them become someone who can sustain the capacity to help others?
He's worked more than any CEO
How dare someone use the services they've been paying into.
22 years of cash jobs is not paying into the system
Oh so Canada only has employment taxes and nothing else.
they are the majority
Depends on how much you're making. This guy has probably been below the poverty line the whole time he's been in this country. If he's been making less than the Basic Personal Amount income tax credit that anyone can claim, he wouldn't be paying any tax even if he'd been doing everything by the book and above-board. If he wasn't very far above it, he'd have been paying a pittance—probably less than he was paying out in sales taxes for everything he bought over the course of twenty-odd years.
I think you'll survive giving him $350 a month for 6 months.
I'll survive many, many things. that doesn't mean anything. The point is he paid nowhere near his fair share of taxes.
I disagree and so does this court.
actually the court said nothing about him paying taxes. they gave him benefits based on "the sheer length of time and the roots the appellant had established while in Canada"
basically says if you come here and hide out illegally for long enough, we'll give you welfare. terrible precedent to set
Lobster bucket mentality strikes again.
Do you think the only taxes you pay are income taxes?
the majority definitely are