How would we have saved hundreds of billions??? Some of us are loosing money with the difficulty in getting to the States. American dollars, that come home to Canada.
The Conservatives better fucking open the borders and keep them open.
CERB Extended 4 More Weeks
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The Conservatives better fucking open the borders and keep them open.
From CERB alone. We dont even need to mention the catastrophic damage done to businesses by lockdown.
We have like 25 cases a day in Toronto. If Trudeau closes the border in January we are looking at literally 0 cases a day. And 0 lockdowns. Life as normal literally.
Its so fucking goddamn easy to just close the borders. Its so fucking simple. The virus is coming in from international travellers. Literally just fucking close the damn fucking airport down and Canada would not be in a crippling recession and millions wouldn't be homeless, depressed, suicidal.
I am a self-employed consultant under contract with bi-weekly payments and as I am obligated to do - I charge GST with my fee. The company registers every GST payment with the government so you can hide your cheques/cash (if that is how you are compensated) in a paint can in the bank yard but there is a record of your payments. It's not worth the hassle or the risk for me.
The easy and by far most plentiful fruit for the CRA are corporate employees. To quote a government site: "As part of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, the CRA will also be comparing employers' payroll records with information provided by CERB claimants"
To summarize - for people with no income - $ 2,000 is not an income to support a life of luxury. CERB was a necessity for thousands of people. The amount of personal grief that would have resulted if the government did not respond is huge. You always have social leeches at every income level -but it would be wrong to let them dictate the fate of the majority of people that are in trouble.
But many of us travel to the US and Internationally for business. (Regularly...like bi-weekly). and to locations in Canada twice a week...Shutting the airports down is shortsighted and going to cause all kind of unintended consequences . What about those who work in airlines and hotels? Taxis? Limos, Rent a car places??
Your idea of 'life as normal literally', respectfully is fairly narrow.
If you made $5000 in past 12 months you qualified for CERB
Never mind the fact that $14,000 (7 x $2000) is far more than you were paid in previous year
The amount of CERB that was paid out is absurd
The minimum requirement for CERB was so low practically everyone and their dog qualified for it
Explain to me WHY we ever needed CERB in first place?
We have an existing system (EI) that would average out your wages and pay you a far more appropriate sum
Overpaying part time employees basically ensured noone will look for work and many refused return to work calls
what was an average SP or MPA supposed to do? hang herself? a waitress? bartender? there had to be millions of ppl in this situation
Assuming she legit paid taxes she would collect EI
If she cheated taxes then she is prob already eligible for welfare
