The Pandemic Debt Trap: A Self Inflicted Wound The federal government's pursuit of pandemic benefits repayment has become a tale of bureaucratic zealotry, where the cure is worse than the disease for low income Canadians.
A recent report from Maytree, a think tank and advocacy group that studies poverty, lays bare the futility and cruelty of this exercise.
Six years into the COVID 19 pandemic, Ottawa is still chasing down billions of dollars sent to Canadians who didn't meet the Canada Revenue Agency's income requirements.