John Bolton - July 15, 2026


A Plane Ticket Not A Cheque - Welfare For Breaking The Law


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1,583

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A Canadian immigrant living illegally in Canada for decades has been ruled eligible for social assistance benefits from Ontario. What does this mean for the future of the welfare system in Canada? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

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00:00:00.000 In the following paragraph, I'm going to replace the word Alberta with Canada.
00:00:05.700 Would you vote yes on the following question?
00:00:08.260 Do you support the government of Canada introducing a law mandating only Canadian citizens, permanent residents,
00:00:16.200 and individuals with a Canadian-approved immigration status will be eligible for provincially funded programs
00:00:22.960 such as health, education, and other social services?
00:00:27.860 We'll come back to that in just a moment.
00:00:30.000 hi it's john and welcome to the channel 4 16 a.m wednesday july the 15th i hope you're having a
00:00:39.220 fantastic wednesday and a terrific week thank you so much for being here and this topic is a hot one
00:00:46.200 today real hot this one gets people mad gets me mad so you're sitting in ontario right now or
00:00:55.360 maybe you're sitting in Nova Scotia or Manitoba. And somebody asked you the question, what's the
00:01:01.880 number one issue for you today in the country? Think about it for a second. What would you say?
00:01:07.320 In the past, if they did polling before elections or any time during the year,
00:01:11.740 generally at the top of the list would be health care. Very important to people, health care.
00:01:18.340 Another would be the economy. And certainly that's an issue today. The cost of living is so bad.
00:01:23.140 the economy is very near the top of the list, and you might have said that. But a recent poll done
00:01:29.040 by Rebel News in Alberta in relation to the independence campaign here asked that question,
00:01:33.640 and at the top of the list was immigration. It surprised me. But then again, when I thought
00:01:40.040 about it a little bit during the federal election last year, this was an issue. The liberals have
00:01:45.000 made a mess of the immigration system here, and in particular, the temporary foreign worker program
00:01:51.300 in this country. They let far too many people in too fast. And you know what happens. Economics 0.99
00:01:56.800 101, the law of supply and demand comes in, too many people in. It puts a strain on our services.
00:02:03.200 And when it comes to housing and things like that, too many people, too few houses, prices go up. 1.00
00:02:07.620 An absolute cock up when it comes to immigration in this country. That's why this story really hit 1.00
00:02:14.320 hard with people when they read it over the last couple of days. We'll go to a couple of stories
00:02:18.960 here. Ford wants changes after a man living illegally in Canada found eligible for Ontario 0.54
00:02:26.180 welfare. You know, the vision that comes to your mind is people standing in food lines who are
00:02:32.360 Canadian citizens here, and we're paying, you're paying for stuff like this. It's Ontario. We're
00:02:38.700 going to come around to that in just a moment. Oh, it's just Ontario. It's just one guy. Let's
00:02:42.380 read a little bit of this story because it's not likely to be just one person. Ontario Premier
00:02:48.360 Doug Ford says he will change provincial regulations if needed after learning that an
00:02:52.840 immigrant living illegally in Canada for decades has been ruled eligible for social assistance
00:02:59.260 benefits from Ontario. Ford's comments came in the form of a social media post on a case reported by
00:03:04.920 the National Post involving a man who said he came to Canada in 1997 on a temporary work permit.
00:03:12.620 Although his permit expired after four years, he's been living here ever since. So 30 years ago,
00:03:18.000 basically. And you'd think the tribunal in Ontario that looked at this case and gave this
00:03:22.420 guy welfare would say, listen, he's been contributing to society for close to three
00:03:27.320 decades. We want him to have welfare because of that contribution. But from what I understand,
00:03:32.500 this guy has not been paying taxes. And he's been collecting money under the table ever since.
00:03:39.720 And you're going to pay for this guy's welfare. Now, you may say, John, it's only one person,
00:03:44.320 for goodness sakes, don't worry about it. But this kind of stuff spreads. Here's Brian Lilly
00:03:48.120 with a story here. Canada keeps rewarding those who stay after their visas expire. I'm not going
00:03:53.700 to read a lot of this to you, but these couple of paragraphs here. This ruling out of Ontario
00:03:59.380 is one ruling, but bad ideas don't stay where they are born. And with millions of people
00:04:04.940 potentially following the path of not leaving, we could see more of this. I would say it's
00:04:10.320 inevitable. We're going to see a lot more of this unless the rules change. Sadly, it's not just
00:04:15.660 welfare payments where the taxpayer gets hosed for offering government services to people who
00:04:21.940 pay no tax and have no legal status in Canada. As a matter of fact, Pierre Paulyev made an issue of
00:04:27.720 this. Fact, six million Canadians can't get access to a family doctor. Fact, it takes 30 weeks for
00:04:35.060 the average Canadian to see a specialist. Fact, while you can't get health care, liberals force
00:04:39.780 you to pay higher taxes to fund deluxe supplementary health care benefits for asylum 0.82
00:04:46.500 claimants who've been rejected, who are non-Canadians, non-permanent residents, and have never paid
00:04:52.040 taxes in this country. Fact. The reality is that these services include many things that are not
00:04:58.800 covered by your public plan. Things like physiotherapy. Fact. The cost of providing these
00:05:05.080 these deluxe supplementary benefits to asylum claims claimants has gone up by a thousand
00:05:12.200 percent under the liberals to over a billion dollars money diverted away from our health care
00:05:17.120 jamming up our system and increasing our weight lines i'm coming back around to the question i
00:05:23.460 asked off the top of this video in just a moment but when you hear pauliev say fact fact fact and
00:05:29.500 then you hear that some of these people who are here illegally or asylum seekers or are temporary
00:05:36.080 foreign workers who aren't so temporary anymore are getting better services than you. It makes 1.00
00:05:41.060 you mad. And it has another effect as well, which is pretty sad. I'm not against immigration. I'm for
00:05:46.460 sensible immigration like we used to have. But what happens is all of these people come into 1.00
00:05:51.320 the country and it sours people on immigration, even the legal stuff. People wait in line for 0.99
00:05:57.640 years to come to the country and they get upset as well because people are jumping the queue.
00:06:02.100 And I've said on this channel before, I think the liberals will eventually 0.98
00:06:05.360 legalize all the people who are here illegally. They'll give them citizenship because they'll say, 0.99
00:06:11.460 we don't know where they are. It's too hard to find them. It's cheaper to just let them stay.
00:06:17.420 And I think that's eventually going to happen. So let's go back to the question I asked you off
00:06:21.540 the top. Now think of this again as a question on Canada. Let me bring my, actually, I'll keep
00:06:26.840 myself off the screen. I kind of block out a little bit of it there. As I did at the beginning
00:06:30.600 of this video, we'll replace Alberta with Canada, and why not? We'll replace provincially with
00:06:35.460 federally in the following question. Answer it truthfully and honestly, okay? Do you support
00:06:41.380 the government of Canada introducing a law mandating only Canadian citizens, permanent
00:06:45.860 residents, and individuals with a Canadian-approved immigration status will be eligible for federally
00:06:51.540 funded programs such as health, education, and other social services. And no doubt most people
00:06:57.400 are going to say yes, because you think sensibly, but there are people who disagree with this,
00:07:02.460 which I'll get to in just a moment. Now, you may be wondering, what is this question? Well,
00:07:07.500 people in Alberta know what it is. It's got a two-besided. This is one of nine questions that
00:07:12.620 will be on the referendum this fall prior to the question on independence. There's a number of them
00:07:17.860 dealing with immigration, which is a hot issue here in Alberta. Most people come here when they 0.99
00:07:23.500 come to Canada anymore. We're growing here when it comes to our population. But I think most people
00:07:28.400 in Canada think immigration is an issue as well because of the liberals and what they've done.
00:07:33.140 We've got people in this province who totally lost it when Danielle Smith introduced these
00:07:38.820 referendum questions. Here's the asshat known as Mr. Forever Canadian, Thomas Lukasik, who referred 0.96
00:07:45.000 to Danielle Smith as the leader of Germany between 1933 and 1945, and talked about immigrants
00:07:53.640 like they were the people that were persecuted, not going to read it. And Rachel Notley as well
00:08:00.040 went there at the same time when she introduced these questions, which are sensible questions.
00:08:05.400 I always go back to Frederick Bastiat, who had a great quote. And his quote was,
00:08:11.040 the state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.
00:08:18.680 And this is the kind of thing we're dealing with when it comes to this ruling in Ontario where
00:08:23.220 somebody who hasn't been paying into the system for 30 years in this country and is here illegally
00:08:28.580 is getting welfare on your dime. It's maddening and it needs to change. Thanks for watching. If
00:08:36.320 you like this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for
00:08:39.600 I will see you in the next one.
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