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‘I saw our city seized,’ Ottawa store owner tells trial of convoy protest organizers
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The problem I find is that the safety net is there only if you're rock bottom poor. If you're lower income but barely scraping by, there's no help for you. They are helping homeowners pay their property taxes, helping corporations with corporate welfare, and helping the poorest afford food, but if you're just above the poverty line, you're on your own.
What country do you think you could live in where the government would give you money?
Canada. If you're rich and failing, they give you money. If you're the citizen of another country, and need foreign aid, they give you money.
If you're a struggling, working class Canadian, not so much.
My employer, a multi million dollar company, got $500k in aid. I who have $0 in my account after bills, got zero assistance during the pandemic. I had a second job at a hospital during the pandemic too, working directly for the government. What did I get out of it? I got COVID, no protections and a half a dozen co-workers dead.
You never answered my question. What country do you think gives money to its citizens like you?
Norway
So you think that Norway just gives people money?
The government hands rich people money all the time. I'm a full time worker who wants my government to get off it's ass and fix the housing and wage situation that's killing us, I'm not asking for money.I make money, but because "my government" doesn't care about reality, my wages and costs aren't consistent and they don't seem to see an issue cause they do nothing about it. Nobody is asking for free money, I'm asking for this country to focus on Canadians instead of focusing 100% of their time and money on foreign affairs
This is exactly what I was taking about in another comment. Ego. You can't see that the things that we do in terms of foreign policy keep you safe in the long run. The world is confusing and scary and you want more than you have right now so it's Canada's fault and Trudeau's fault and foreigners fault. It's everyone's fault but yours.
Canada is a beautiful, free, and open country and I love it. I'm sorry that you don't.
I'm native blood so my country is lovely, it's the colonial system that favors the white and wealthy that I hate. Your system isn't built for people who look like me, and it doesn't care what happens to me.
I'll be sure to let my wife (who is Raven Clan) know that.
That's not what I asked. What country do you think you could move to that would give you money? Or, since we both know that's nonsense, what country do you think gives it's own citizens like you money?