I don't doubt it. When I was on welfare, I had to log into an online portal every month and it asked me:
- Did you leave the province in the past 30 months?
- If so, for how long?
If you left the province for a prolonged period of time, you'd stop getting welfare. There's no actual verification that you stayed in the province. As long as you say that you didn't leave, you'll keep getting welfare benefits. The only time you ever have to talk to someone from the welfare office is once (or rarely twice) a year about your plans for the future.
If someone wanted to, they could go on welfare, leave the country, and never tell the welfare office. They'd keep getting benefits. The welfare offices and the bureaucrats that work in them are very overworked and they don't have the time or prerogative to actually check in on welfare recipients. This was back in 2022 though, so I'm assuming like everything else in Canada, it's gotten way worse since then.
Sounds about right. IIRC the scam worked because the elderly fraudster would have a relative still living in Canada, my guess is to act as a "local" to handle the phone interviews and paperwork with the welfare office to make it appear the person was still there.
Allowing pajeets to leave India is the biggest mistake in modern history. It will be all of our downfalls.
Domestic tariffs aren't paid by foreign exporters, they are paid by YOU the citizen in higher purchasing costs for imports.
We all know that by this point. But it also stifles purchases from the countries under tariff which provides them less revenue than before. In some cases I'm fine with this. I remember Duhhhhbya Bush saying that opening up trade with China would
force them to become a democracy in the long run. It didn't. They're arguably more powerful and dangerous than they were in 2000.
And now, 25 years later, I can't find the random "made in usa" construction parts I could still find back in 2000. Lots of oddball electrical, plumbing and construction supplies were still domestic up until the last decade or so. China purposely killed that by unfairly subsidizing their industries until ours collapsed, you don't think the next step in their plan is to cut us off now that we no longer have our own suppliers?
And their obsession with Taiwan is borderline insane, like a hyper-jealous ex-boyfriend. China has more opportunity than ever to do way more productive things than worry about one tiny island that claims to still be the real China. But they obsess about it despite it not being all that important in the grand scheme of things.
And don't get me started about China unfairly pegging its dogshit currency to ours for decades which fucked over generations of young Americans. Oh well, we got "cheap" technology out of it--the same technology thats currently frying the brains of the youngest generations. Oh boy, what a great tradeoff. Maybe we should've allowed that technology to slowly integrate organically. No, I don't want to use my cell phone to scan a QR code to view your goddamn menu and I don't care if some pajeet CEO doesn't get paid if QR codes FINALLY DIE.
And plenty of European countries benefitted from the post cold-war period of America being way to nice. Now most of those countries aren't even European now by race. Its the new middle east filled with violent shit skins and most of the population is fine with that.
I don't like tariffs either but I don't like all the bullshit scams the worlds been running on us for decades. No, American's aren't the only ones who suffer from them, we're just the ones that pay. The exporters suffer to. The workers suffer. Time for all of you foreigner's who took advantage of us to suffer. Enjoy.