35% of government-sponsored refugees still on welfare after 10 years A Statistics Canada study has found that 72% of government-sponsored refugees still rely on welfare programs two years after arrival, and 35% are still dependent after ten years. https://tnc.news/2022/03/28/35-of-government-sponsored-refugees-still-on-welfare-after-10-years/
I just moved in December from Nova Scotia to Mississauga, (part of the Greater Toronto Area), and I can certainly testify that a very high percentage of the former refugees that I have met here in Ontario are now working but..... partly due to their first language not being either English or French they, (like me), tend to take lower paying jobs which....... would make it reasonable for them to also accept social assistance payments as an important part of their household income. (For the record I personally got into the habit of accepting lower paying jobs so that I could take the weekly and annual Jewish Sabbaths off from work)! I have an idea that might just strike a chord with a significant percentage of the one million residents of Mississauga for many reasons. Would a Basic Minimum Income dramatically reduce abortions? ? Will a Minimum Basic Income dramatically reduce the incidence of abortions? Perhaps by 1- 10 percent over the present rate. 4 vote(s) 50.0% Perhaps by 11 to twenty percent over the present rate. 0 vote(s) 0.0% Perhaps twenty one to thirty percent over the present rate. 1 vote(s) 12.5% * Perhaps by even more than by thirty percent? 3 vote(s) 37.5% Change Your Vote An UNCONDITIONAL but taxable Basic Minimum Income of five hundred dollars per Canadian citizen and legal resident, from cradle to grave... that is financed in the manner of the brilliant 1938 to 1974 Bank of Canada policy...... would of course have less negative stigma attached to it than social assistance payments. Best Idea for a Better Canada Contest
