Pressure mounts on government to forgive some CERB repayments

[jazz]

There is your election win. CERB payments to be forgiven.

And seeing as $600M was paid out to school age teenagers and a bill is on the books to lower voting age to 16, hope you like looking at skippys face for another 4 yrs.

A $1T bought off election. Chalk it up to the list of things I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/01/27/pressure-mounts-on-government-to-forgive-cerb-repayments-for-self-employed-canadians-affected-by-confusion-over-gross-and-net-income.html ‘The government’s made a huge mistake’: Pressure mounts to let CERB recipients keep erroneous payments they applied for ‘in good faith’

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/more-than-636m-in-cerb-benefits-was-paid-to-300000-teens-between-ages-of-15-and-17-documents More than $636M in CERB benefits paid to 300,000 teens aged 15 to 17, documents show

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-subramanya-trudeau-is-a-left-wing-populist-who-may-have-bought-himself-the-next-election Trudeau is a left-wing populist who may have bought himself the next election

[bucket]

Yup , we talked about the CERB being forgiven...guess what so will CEBA because there won't be any businesses left on the current path.

Both Liberals and Conservatives will be forced to make that election promise.

[sumdumguy]

300,000 teeny boppers blew through billions, hope they saved some for schoool.😂

[bucket]

300,000 teeny boppers blew through billions, hope they saved some for schoool.😂

School for what????? You are pretty optimistic to think there will be jobs after Trudeau is done phucking things up...

[Sheepwheat]

300,000 teeny boppers blew through billions, hope they saved some for schoool.😂

But hey, they’ll remember this ride and vote for blackface groper.

[helmsdale]

Can those who didn't apply for said programs at the time because they erred on the side of caution and had a conscience apply to get their stimmy cheques retroactively now that they intend not to dig into qualifications? Asking for a friend...

[Herc]

Can those who didn't apply for said programs at the time because they erred on the side of caution and had a conscience apply to get their stimmy cheques retroactively now that they intend not to dig into qualifications? Asking for a friend...

I did the same, didn’t really need it so didn’t bother. Didn’t know it was a free for all, guess I will next time.

[helmsdale]

I did the same, didn’t really need it so didn’t bother. Didn’t know it was a free for all, guess I will next time.

Faith in government has fallen yet further... How much lower can it go?

[foragefarmer]

Thanks, Jazz for the post. The only way to prevent this from happening is emails to MPs and the PM,s offices.

No use coming on here echoing names which have been given to the PM we've all heard 100's of times.

That's not to get anything done!

[bucket]

Thanks, Jazz for the post. The only way to prevent this from happening is emails to MPs and the PM,s offices.

No use coming on here echoing names which have been given to the PM we've all heard 100's of times.

That's not to get anything done!

My conservative MP and staff are pretty much tone deaf....they really don't understand shit...and if they do understand you are just preaching to the choir and they will say that.