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frank_black
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CANADA PENSION
Do not apply for your old age pension. Apply to be a refugee.
It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 and each can get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2,470.00.
This compares very well to a single pensioner who, after contributing to the growth and development of Canada for 40 or 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!
Do not apply for your old age pension. Apply to be a refugee.
It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 and each can get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2,470.00.
This compares very well to a single pensioner who, after contributing to the growth and development of Canada for 40 or 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!
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Wow, that is pretty fucking sad, actually. Work all your life in this country, and get less compensation than someone who has not.
And that is not an anti-immigration comment, either.
www.amnesty.org.uk
i hear ya, i wasn't making this an anti-immigration statement either...it's just sad for the people who work all their lives here and get fucked by our governement.
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
thats your problem right there, shouldn't rely on the feds to provide.
1995 ?
But i think it might goes up to Trudeau, immigration policies is Trudeau's baby...
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I always thought that Trudeau would have made a much better high level member of foreign affairs or diplomat than government leader. I think when we look back at the Trudeau era we'll just shake our heads and wonder "How did we fall for that?". I love his just society ideaology but his policies in action have had a disasterous long term effect and because he over saw the Constitution they are almost impossible to correct.
Love him as a person and a diplomat, hate him as Prime Minister. Where as Chretien I just despise all round.
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
Pretty much sums up my feelings, as well.
Trudeau was a charismatic leader so that might explain his popularity, he was also standing strong against separatist, helping to make him even more popular (although he was full of shit doing it but that's just me), and his society ideology was somehow great but just a face shown in my opinion. Trudeau was great to manipulate the populations opinions. He did some good stuffs about humans rights and civil liberties, also for french speaking outside Quebec, again just an opinion.
"Just watch me", yeah hehe
What i like about Chrétien is the way he was talking, just so much to laugh at, priceless quote, and his stand against the Iraq war, i can't say anything else that i like about him.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
are you serious?
holy shit. that's quite a decent net monthly salary...and they get it, for how long?! crap. can a US citizen apply for 'refugee status' in canada?
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
(and I do realize the conversion rate does come into play here, but the point still stands)
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Yeah, pretty much. There has to be a better way to deal with the unemployed.
I'm not sure how it works, when I was unemployed the provincial government lend me $500 and forced me to pay it back when I started working. Everyone just told me to go to a shelter and work through labour ready. I thought it should be like this for everyone, but for some reason. People manage to get long term disability and welfare for the stupidest reasons. I won't even apply for it. Same way I won't apply for native status. Too many people just grab on to whatever bonuses they can get. It's gonna ruin us.
Interesting that you should raise this issue ... I feel the exact same way. I probably have just enough Native blood in there somewhere for me to qualify for certain benefits, but I choose not to pursue this. I don't believe in this sort of special treatment, I actually think it is harmful to both the recipients and the taxpayers.
I may never own a car or a house. Be able to raise kids or afford a nice vacation. But I'll never feel like I cheated someone getting there.
Even when a business improperly charges me or miscounts the change, I am honest and correct the problem. Ironically, I returned $20 to a store that had messed up when I was a teenager, the very next day they accused me of shoplifting.
Arg, really? Shit! Kudos to you for sticking to your ideals even after that kind of experience.