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Colby Cosh: Ontario's welfare-for-illegal-migrants scheme could be dropped overnight

Ford's biggest hurdle is the judiciary

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Your National Post gets results! Unfortunately, sometimes “results” means “everybody gets angry and little is accomplished.” On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised on the bird site that he would change provincial regulations to make illegal immigrants ineligible for welfare. It would be a natural assumption for an Ontarian to make that illegal immigrants were already ineligible for welfare! But, as the Post’s Adrian Humphreys had revealed in a story published Saturday, that is not the case.

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The tireless Humphreys was reporting on a May decision of the Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal, which was hearing an appeal of a denial of benefits to an........

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