🇨🇦 Foreign migrant living illegally in Canada eligible for Ontario welfare, tribunal rules

The sharpest part is not even the ruling. It is that Ontario welfare staff reportedly avoided an immigration check so they would not jeopardize the applicant’s ability to remain in Canada. That is the game in plain sight: the state quietly refusing to enforce the line between citizen, legal resident, and illegal presence, then acting shocked when the system turns into a magnet. As reported, the tribunal accepted that the man has no status in Canada and is here illegally, then still found him eligible because the law excludes only visitors, tourists, and those with a removal order.

So after Trudeau-era mass migration pressure helped break housing, shelters, and public services, Ontario now gets a legal lesson in sovereign absurdity: stay long enough, work cash jobs, enter the shelter system, and roots become a pathway to benefits. No removal order, no problem. This is what institutional Canada does best: erase borders administratively, reward illegality procedurally, and bill the taxpayer morally.

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