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| EI whistleblower suspended without pay; A Rant | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 22 2013, 01:54 AM (936 Views) | |
| Darcie | Jul 22 2013, 01:54 AM Post #1 |
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A federal fraud investigator has been suspended without pay, after she leaked documents showing that investigators had to cut people off their employment insurance benefits in order to meet quotas. Sylvie Therrien told CBC News that she and other investigators were given a target to recover nearly $500,000 in EI benefits every year. "It just was against my values, harassing claimants… trying to penalize them in order to save money for the government. We had quotas to meet every month," Therrien said. Therrien leaked documents to the media anonymously in the spring showing investigators were ordered to find $485,000 in savings each year by denying claims. The federal government denied that any quotas were in place, but the opposition hammered the Conservatives on the issue. "Telling investigators that they each had to find half a million in fraud presumes that there is widespread fraud, that they're all a bunch of cheaters and criminals," said NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair in the House of Commons in February. EI investigators were then called in for questioning themselves to find out who leaked the document. "Witchhunt terminology. It definitely describes what was happening," said Don Rogers, national president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/20/bc-ei-whistleblower-suspended.html Shades of McCarthyism |
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| Trotsky | Jul 23 2013, 07:42 AM Post #16 |
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Partner has made a claim in far more than half of all the years since 1970. We LOVE it. Nothing like part-time work with one good quarter. The first 25 years were one wanna-be fashion star after another opening, hiring a well paid sales manager and going out of business a few months later. One year he had 3 different w-2's. :ciao: :beer: In fact he has collected part, maybe most of every year for the last 9. If you cannot play the system, it will surely play YOU. THEY write the laws, WE must work them to serve our legitimate interests as best we can. Edited by Trotsky, Jul 23 2013, 07:55 AM.
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| swing | Jul 30 2013, 08:32 AM Post #17 |
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American friends may not know how widespread employment insurance is misused on Canada's east coast. For generations people have been fishing for a few weeks in the summer and living on EI for the rest of the year without ever trying to find year round employment. Others do a couple of months of winter work in forestry and go on the dole in the summer. Or so say people from there and news investigations over the years inform us. Our next door neighbours are from there - they came to Alberta for full time employment. Many more are needed. A small per centage of the people cannot resist EI's addictive attraction. This is to true! There's also many farmers that collect in the winter! |
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| Darcie | Jul 30 2013, 09:22 AM Post #18 |
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Used to know a lot of people living on the west coast doing exactly the same thing, fishing and forestry. Was/is sort of a coastal job availability situation. I do know many who used to try to find work, there just was none to be had. |
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| margrace | Jul 30 2013, 09:39 AM Post #19 |
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Yep the forestry people out there do it as well, my son in law did for many years. |
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| Oldsalt | Jul 30 2013, 10:15 AM Post #20 |
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Drawing EI was something that happened all across Canada with workers who were employed in many seasonal jobs. EI on the East Coast was actually enabled by previous governments who implemented makework projects that lasted just long enough for workers to qualify for EI. Edited by Oldsalt, Jul 30 2013, 10:17 AM.
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| Durgan | Jul 30 2013, 10:31 AM Post #21 |
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Large companies abused EI by hiring workers for mundane jobs then laying them off. Often the person laid off was training his replacement. These companies were true welfare bums. Northern Tel was one with which I was familiar in Calgary. The procedure served two purposes, a chance to rip off the government and also not having to hire full time people with benefits. Manitoba teachers were hired for 10 months,then laid off to draw unemployment insurance for two months. I imagine they are still doing it. Nice smooth Department of Education procedure. |
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| wildie | Jul 30 2013, 04:58 PM Post #22 |
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My best friend was an electrician working in construction. I was an electrician working for an educational institution. My pay was 2/3 his as he was in a union. I worked year round and he was laid off in the winter. When he was layed off, he drew EI benefits while he worked on building his home. For me, i had to take out a mortgage and buy a house that was already built. After ten years, he had his house paid for, while I still had ten more years left to pay on my mortgage. When I was in Texas, I found out that Canadian beef farmers sell off all their livestock in the fall. Hook their trailer up to their 'farm' truck and head down to Texas for the winter. While in Texas, they arrange to buy and have calves shipped back to Canada where they graze them in the summer. Fattened up, they are sold in the fall and the cycle is repeated. The whole expense of the trip is then written off their taxes. It appears that half the country works and the rest live off the others. |
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