And they won’t be chasing after them to get it back.
Statistics Canada says hundreds of thousands of teenaged students received payments of up to $5,000, which was money intended for COVID relief aid for jobless taxpayers facing eviction or foreclosure, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Access to Information documents show in 2021 a total $636 million was paid to high schoolers. […]
In March 25, 2020, Parliament enacted the Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act to issue $2,000-a month cheques to jobless taxpayers.
The act allowed payments to teenagers as young as 15 but they needed to provide a tax return the previous year.
Blacklocks say records showed federal authorities gave payments without confirming applicants were tax filers.
Because that money is spent, and those children are their future. Instead, they’ll come chasing after us.