Public opinion has tracked rising concern over immigration levels in Canada — to 30-year highs — driven largely by pressure on housing, health care and social supports, according to federal government data.
LOL. If only those services weren't chronically underfunded by neo-liberals and conservativerporate puppets, then there wouldn't be any need to blame immigrants for the governments failure to be a fucking government.
No you don't understand we must funnel money into the private sector and hire armies of middlemen and consultants! We can't have nice things because that would be communism or something
Do people think the guy's putting his $343 in an offshore account? That money gets circulated into the local economy really quickly. Last I read in the US, every $1 spent on SNAP generated something around $7 in economic impact.
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.
I'm not weighing in here for our against the posted issue however EI payments are weekly not monthly. When I was on paternity leave the high end of those payments was ~560 per week and paternity leave payments are equal to other forms of unemployment.
Again, I'm not bothering to read the article, or do the digging if this person is eligible. I'm just advising that I think you might be off on the total value that could be received.
A single person on Ontario Works receives a maximum of $733 per month ($343 for basic needs + $390 for shelter). A couple receives up to $1,136 per month .
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.
Judging by your incredibly racist comment, you currently lack the mental capacity to read more than a sentence.
...he had come to Canada in 1997 on a temporary work permit. Although his permit expired after four years, he never left.
He was able to support himself by working cash jobs until 2023 when he entered the homeless shelter system, he told the tribunal.
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?
38 Comments
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 37d
The Nazionalist post should not be read or shared.
rozodru@piefed.world · 35 pts · 37d
oh boy a whole $343 a month, whatever shall the rest of us do?
whoop de friggin do. a homeless guy can now get enough for a few days of food from the government. $343 isn't enough to buy shit.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 35d
1/10 the costs of speeding fines for Doug's MPPs.
ABCatMom@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 34d
Then there's also Toronto area MPPs claiming accommodation expenses.. in Toronto 🤦♀️
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-mpp-tourism-minister-repaying-accommodation-expenses-9.7269670
snoons@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 37d
LOL. If only those services weren't chronically underfunded by neo-liberals and co
nservativerporate puppets, then there wouldn't be any need to blame immigrants for the governments failure to be a fucking government.ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 37d
No you don't understand we must funnel money into the private sector and hire armies of middlemen and consultants! We can't have nice things because that would be communism or something
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 37d
Do people think the guy's putting his $343 in an offshore account? That money gets circulated into the local economy really quickly. Last I read in the US, every $1 spent on SNAP generated something around $7 in economic impact.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 35d
With savvy investment, they could be looking at $345 in a few years.
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 36d
American news media creeping in again
maam@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 36d
Stop posting the garbage national post.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 36d
We'll deal with this after we get rid of Ford... And probably the 80 years it'll take to economically recover from him.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 36d
Good.
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 36d
Good, it went through the courts. Now they should work on providing him actual status to remain.
lautan@lemmy.ca · -56 pts · 37d
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.
No_Maines_Land@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 37d
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.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 1 pts · 37d
I assume he wasn’t paying taxes into the system by working cash jobs.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 37d
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?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 37d
Jail time for fraud.
kibblebits@quokk.au · 4 pts · 37d
Those employers are bad. Ask the real question you want to ask.
rozodru@piefed.world · 25 pts · 37d
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.
Cerothen@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 36d
I'm not weighing in here for our against the posted issue however EI payments are weekly not monthly. When I was on paternity leave the high end of those payments was ~560 per week and paternity leave payments are equal to other forms of unemployment.
Again, I'm not bothering to read the article, or do the digging if this person is eligible. I'm just advising that I think you might be off on the total value that could be received.
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 36d
No, they're right. EI is different from welfare
https://benefitcheck.ca/blog/ontario-works-rates-2026-eligibility-guide
rozodru@piefed.world · 3 pts · 36d
It's not EI, he can't get EI cause he never had a real job. he's getting Ontario Works which, again, is paid monthly and is $343 a month..
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · -15 pts · 37d
vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 36d
What the fuck is wrong with you?
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 36d
vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 36d
Ah yes, because the only cost they have every month is food. Literally nothing else, just food
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 36d
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 37d
How dare someone use the services they've been paying into.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · -12 pts · 37d
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 37d
Oh so Canada only has employment taxes and nothing else.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · -12 pts · 37d
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 37d
I think you'll survive giving him $350 a month for 6 months.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 37d
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 37d
I disagree and so does this court.
nyan@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 37d
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.
discomatic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 36d
I don't think you understand how economics work, sport.
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 36d
The only people sending this message are morons who think the NP is a reputable source of news and not conservative agiprop.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 37d
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?
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 37d
He's worked more than any CEO
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 36d
And more than most politicians! Definitely more than PP ever did in his life
maam@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 36d
Hating on vulnerable people….