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Old Posted May 11, 2020, 2:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin View Post
Employment insurance (the name should be a hint) is not a handout. It's something that all tax paying Canadians have contributed to and are therefore entitled to receive when needed. No further conditions required beyond being unemployed. Even moreso under the current circumstances where most people are unemployed on government orders to shut their workplaces.

The sheer amount of beauracratic organization and oversight that would be necessary to organize and enforce 3 million+ unemployed Canadians to fulfill their non-essential make-work projects would far exceed the value generated by making our already-clean streets slightly more clean.
Its the same as enforcing speeding lol. 99.9% of people get away. We'd catch some who break it and most will follow it.

CERB is already running on a honor system.
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