^^ See this is where the difference between the right and left is today. I am not about subsidizing peoples habits, but I also know that it is more cost effective to help people when they need it than to pay for more police officers and build more jails to hold them when they find their own means of subzidiaing their income!
I have a friend who was an innocent bystander and was shot. He ended up on AISH and many other social programs to get "back on his feet" (pun fully intended as he is now a quadraplegic, and would laugh with me!). Cases like that are isolated...but that is what the system should be based on.
When the economy is hot its easy to say we don't need EI....but when the jobless rate hits 10% again (and eventually it will), then these programs are critical so that people can feed their families and live.
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