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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
i know people who work for welfare and disability and they say the number of immigrants on welfare compared to "native born" canadians is about 4 to 1.
of course there are some that do really well and some who come here rich (and pretend to be poor, using the welfare system since they keep their money in foreign banks) but especially refugees, people who can't speak the language usually end up unable to find jobs or come here with some kind of mental/physical disability so they "can't" work.
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that stat is based on their impressions on who is coming in? do you know if that would include the immigration assistance all receive?
anyway, without arguing about things we don't have much to do with, the newest study i can find had immigrant families directly using about 10k in government services per year, while paying 20k in taxes (on average). there have been difficulties over the past 20 years on how long it takes them to find steady work, but that number as of 1995 shows them paying twice as much as they use