The job market is screaming for people to work so that's not why they are still in welfare. I wouldn't be taking care of my kids 5 years after they got out of school and I am sure I don't want my tax dollars babysitting immigrants. The LEAST they can be doing is be volunteering their time and I believe that should be part of the rules for coming here, you have to put in volunteer hours, you can't just come here and squat. Other criteria needs to be NO single men priority given exclusively to men with families.
https://tnc.news/2024/01/25/syrian-refugees-still-reliant-on-social-assistance/
Epoch News had a post: What does Canada Day mean to you? Several people weighed in, but this is the one I identified with...
‘Celebrate Alberta’
Katherine Kowalchuk, 50, a lawyer from Calgary, says if she does anything on Canada Day it will be going to a local cafe to celebrate Alberta.
“I disassociated from Canada a while back. That started back in 2020 with COVID, when all of the mandates came in and I saw how our government was treating its citizens,” Kowalchuk said.
“It was 2021 where I really started looking seriously into Alberta separation, and ever since then I’ve become a dedicated separatist.”
Kowalchuk wants Alberta, or the West, to separate and become its own nation, not to join the United States, and she believes there’s a strong likelihood it will happen.
“I do think that there’s a really good chance that Alberta is going to separate. There’s too many push-and-pull factors that aren’t being resolved and are continuing to get worse and making life more ...