I wonder if they get paid to vote. Just wondering.
I’m not the only one wondering, I suspect. Linda Leatherdale of the Toronto Sun exposes a just-breaking new Liberal government gem. (Hat tip: odie441)
Just ask Ottawa’s crooked politicians, who’ve defrauded us of our tax dollars with no fear of ever going to jail.
And now they’re sending our tax dollars to jailbirds.
Read on and try not to burst an artery.
Just as we get set to vote tomorrow, $250 energy rebate cheques are being sent to criminals behind bars, who already got to cast their vote in the comfort of their cells, heated by our tax dollars.
“Linda, this makes me sick,” sniffed a correctional officer, who was on the line complaining he had just distributed cheques from Canada Revenue Agency (formerly Revenue Canada) to four inmates at a provincial detention centre, located north of Toronto.
One inmate had been at the detention centre fighting deportation since December 2004, after he was transferred from a federal prison where he had served his sentence.
He has 23 convictions, including armed robbery and drug offences.
This officer, who’s worked for Ontario’s ministry of correctional services for 16 years and asked not to be named for fear of being disciplined for speaking out, went on: “I’m delivering money to criminals that’s been stolen from me and other hard-working taxpayers in Canada.”
This isn’t the first time, he said. In 2001, in another lamebrained Liberal scheme to help Canadians deal with skyrocketing home heating costs, many inmates received rebate cheques of $125 to $250.
It was part of the botched $1.4-billion rebate program, whereby only $250 million went to low-income Canadians struggling with home heating costs.
According to Canada’s auditor general, most of the rest of the money went to dead people, inmates and Canadians who don’t pay any heating bills at all.
Now the Liberals are doing it again.
[…] In the words of this correctional officer: “I work to July to hand over all my money to the taxman, and today I gave convicted criminals a rebate cheque. It’s all wrong. It’s time we stood up and said enough is enough.”
Stand up, huh? Like stand up for Canada, right? What a great idea.
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