Indians Bragging about Scamming Food Banks in Canada

[GatlingGunZ]

Do you also collect food at a food bank?

I am asking him about that US veteran housing post.

 

[El Sidd]

It's just food.

This is a weird thread.

 

[K2RULEZ]

I am asking him about that US veteran housing post.

I am asking you whether you collect food at a food bank since you support your scamming Indian brethren in Canada who also happen to collect food at food banks.

Don't dodge the question.

 

[Master Chief]

Unlike you, Canadian universities and local governments do not differentiate based on immigration status on things ear-marked for student use.

A student welfare service/subsidy usually available in Canada for all students.

BTW, not just Indian, students of ALL ethnicity use those services, including german. German students in Canada get subsidized bus passes in city buses, they also get food from student food bank.

There are community food banks for poors and they do not allow students to avail their charity.

You consistently argue by explaining what IS happening, while your concern was regarding the OUTRAGE (i.e. people's perception of what SHOULD happen). I have explained quite logically why the outrage exists. Also, there is no question regarding the reality of what happens - there is ample evidence of the poverty that Indian students find themselves in here in UK, for reasons beyond my comprehension given the fact that they should have arrived here comfortably above a strictly assessed budgetary threshold.

Food banks are charitable projects.

The question lingers - why should those who have arrived in a country on a means tested visa for a fixed period of time be allowed to access a service for someone in such a state of poverty that free food is needed?

Did that person fraudulently declare their financial means prior to application?

Also, you keep attempting conflation of several issues by discussing bus passes etc. Nobody is actually bringing up bus passes but you. Domestic students' families have spent their lives and livelihoods contributing to a state welfare pot, one way or another. International students' families have not.

I would argue that International students should also pay full value for their bus passes, now that you mention it.

 

[Daiba]

Food banks are charitable projects.

The question lingers - why should those who have arrived in a country on a means tested visa for a fixed period of time be allowed to access a service for someone in such a state of poverty that free food is needed?

The answer is simple. They arrived in Canada as STUDENTS. So as students they are expected to have a certain life style and hence certain expense profile, for which they are means tested. Students live in residence halls or economical and often shared residences and avail economical means of meals and travel -- including subsidized bus passes and university run food banks.

The visa means test takes that into consideration when they set the expense level. It is by design.

The folks who are outraging are wrong because the money to support these are not really coming from their own pocket, even in form of taxes. Food banks in universities are run by university funds and donations from businesses as a part of their own charity programs -- often in form of food items that are near expiry. This is not public money!

The ones outraging are ill-informed or plain racist.