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*Shocking News: Reports of billions of dollars in ineligible COVID benefit payments
- Thread starter Jampy00
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Is there a single person shocked by this? Sadly, probably yes. It was obvious from two weeks in where they didn't even attempt cursory prequalification (eg look at CRA records to see if you made $5000 last year as required) that it would be hugely abused with relative impunity.
Private ski hills got tons of money too. Many had their biggest ever surpluses between straight handouts and salaries getting covered by us.
Mikedezo44
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Sadly, this major financial disaster will barely last a day on Canadian news outlets (I don't even see it on front page of cp24) We are more concerned who Kim Kardashians next boyfriend will be. I'm sure my grandma would probably vote again for current leader because he has nice hair, just like she continually goes to the dealership to get her car fixed at outrageous prices because the service manager is a nice guy and shakes her hand.
Would be nice if we could at least stop those who took the benefits with foreign addresses from entering/exiting Canada until repayment has been made but I won't get my hopes up.
Would be nice if we could at least stop those who took the benefits with foreign addresses from entering/exiting Canada until repayment has been made but I won't get my hopes up.
Speed in the first two weeks mattered. Not bothering to tighten things up for the following year of payments was disgusting.
We desperately need to find out if you can be stunned.
Don't know if he'd stun me but he sure as hell would scare me.
At this point my cat could do a better job than the current administration.
Vote for Alice!
Your cat has my vote. It wont actively light money on fire.
Until we can figure out how to convince you and others otherwise, the country will continue to get worse.
How many scandals and failure will it take, or is it something else?
Fear of cons is real. There is no level the libs can rise to that would make some people vote con.
Mad Mike
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Golf courses too. I know one very expensive local course that had a banner year - virtually every tee time sold at full tick. They collected $240K for clubhouse wage subsidies.
Mad Mike
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I don't think it's about speed, even gov'ts can move like a cheetah when they have to. It's about waste, corruption, and partisan dealings.
With speed comes mistakes, which are acceptable as long as you correct and adjust once you've found them. JT's crew decided to get payments out based on an attestation principle (meaning the applicants would be truthful and honest), with a promise of rigorous post-payment follow-ups and clawbacks for those who cheated. They didn't do any of that, and the AG found they weren't really planning to do it -- understandable as it's politically easier to forgive than to chase down and claw back from millions of voting cheaters. There is $27B in CERB
Sad thing is they granted full paid leave to 135,000+ federal workers to hang out at home during the pandemic -- 25 million work hours and over a $billion+. About 1/3rd of people on paid leave were Revenue Canada employees.
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How hard would it have been to set them up with verification tools?
Then in Ontario we have conservative supporters buying greenbelt properties (that were not permitted to be developed) that all of a sudden are now on the new development list. Never mind one of the largest LTC operators and private nursing companies run by a former PC premier and his wife cashing in on all the new changes and "renting" nurses to the government... and on it goes.
On one side we have epic waste, on the other epic crony capitalism these days. It all sucks unless you happen to be on the receiving end of one of the two.... pigs at a trough, some are blue, some are red, some are orange.... Every once and a while all we can do is swap them out when they get too fat.
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