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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.
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.
The only people sending this message are morons who think the NP is a reputable source of news and not conservative agiprop.
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.
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.
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..
No, they're right. EI is different from welfare
https://benefitcheck.ca/blog/ontario-works-rates-2026-eligibility-guide
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Ah yes, because the only cost they have every month is food. Literally nothing else, just food
How dare someone use the services they've been paying into.
Oh so Canada only has employment taxes and nothing else.
I think you'll survive giving him $350 a month for 6 months.
I disagree and so does this court.
Yes, because
Therefore, he did not fit into the three categories that are excluded from eligibility with respect to immigration status and he was eligible.
I remember when Harris brought in this legislation. What an incredible self own lol.
Lobster bucket mentality strikes again.
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 don't think you understand how economics work, sport.
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
And more than most politicians! Definitely more than PP ever did in his life
Hating on vulnerable people….
Do you think the only taxes you pay are income taxes?