Ontario 'bribe' of $200 | Your stories | Discussion forum

Service Ontario account is not a requirement, but you will need to create it if you want to know status of your cheque.

Just saw in the news: they only mailed half of all cheques yet.
Keep checking your mailbox.

Alexandre said
Service Ontario account is not a requirement, but you will need to create it if you want to know status of your cheque.

I went through that process of setting up the Service Ontario account to find out when the bribes would arrive. Just for fun.

The My Account process is kinda messy. Very poor design. But I did get it done eventually.

So, followed the path to where one could determine when they'd arrive in my mailbox. Got to a page with a phone number to dial. Laugh No 1.

Called the number. "Please call back if you don't receive your $200 by Feb 15." Laugh No 2.

Somebody actually got paid to set this up ...

Daughter and partner got their cheques Monday. My wife yesterday. Mine today?

Now trying to decide which opposition party to donate to ...

CAD said
I tried to see when will I get my bribe.
Service ON requires you to create account on their site first. (WHY?)
It clearly says 'Step 3: Renewal reminders optional' but unfortunately will NOT get you pass GO to collect $200 if you do NOT select at least one 'renewal reminder'.
Way to go ON.
Not to mention mumbo-jumbo they do not keep your data but somebody else is keeping it and will exchange data, blah, blah, blah.
Maybe I am too dumb to open that account...  

Setting up an account also allows u to setup reminder for driver license, plat permit and health card renewal. I don't see any downside why one don't want to set an account up.

Well, the conservatives that are usually better than this have taken a page out of the liberal handbook perhaps they are really liberal light as they are being accused of
You will only get the $200 per child if you collect Canadian child benefit, which is income tested
I’ve always had a bone to pick with the liberal government because my coworker who has said no to every Saturday gets child tax benefit and if I say yes to 48 Saturdays, I get slapped across the face and they roll me right out of child tax benefits, which are tax-free Meanwhile I’m taxed at 50% on my overtime.
Now the conservatives are doing the same thing shame on them!!
Under Harper, every person was treated equal $100 per child per month, but the dirty secret was it’s income it’s taxable which is actually fair if you’re a higher learner you’ll pay 50% in tax back whereas if you only make 30,000 you’re probably not paying any tax, but at least everyone feels like they’re paid the same and fairly
This picking and choosing based on income is no good because they have no metric to know how much overtime one person turns down or how much another person has earned through a second job if your productivity and output is higher, you shouldn’t be slapped across the face
No government anywhere in any party should be able to change any policy or change any rebate schedule in the last year of their term or within a year of them calling an election it should be made illegal .. I’m conservative in nature, but part of being conservative would be never to hand out $200 to everyone when we’re running large deficits and have a debt to pay. People that are suffering that badly. It only moves D-Day out from a Tuesday to a Friday. It doesn’t change the situation. A bribe 100%

cgouimet said

But I did create an account yesterday only to end up with a phone number to call if I don't get a cheque by Feb 15 ...  

I am going to guess that means your cheque has not been mailed yet. Check again in a day or two, you might see status changed.

Harper balanced the budget and offered people an incentive to earn, save and invest more and become self sufficient without being taxed on already taxed money. His government is the reason you get to have TFSA in the first place so not all your interest is lost to inflation and taxes.

Ford has a massive deficit and he is bribing people with cash borrowed from future generations just because. The one and only good thing about this bribe: its a one off, simple to administer and isn’t an unfunded commitment for eternity so loved by the federal Liberals and NDP which puts us in a “forever” hole. Not that they are opposed to short term pre-election bribes to grow the deficit and make us even more vulnerable either. Like removing sales taxes on champagne and restaurants.

savemoresaveoften said
It's a bribe but treat every Ontarian equally. I guess per others reported, it treats all adult Ontarian equally, as in child bribe is dependent if a family qualifies for child benefit to begin with. Did not follow that part to fact check.

I am also happy to see Trudeau's bribe that has an income cap being shot down.
The rich pays more tax, if anything they deserve it more than those that don't.
Make it taxable and payable to all is what a fair system would be.  

In my opinion, anything meant or disguised as some kind of social assistance should be means tested. Otherwise, we're just wasting tax dollars and adding to, or not paying down, our provincial or national debt.

Governments should be spending our tax dollars as effectively as they claim to be.

Speaking of taxes, here's a quote from the late great Jack Layton.

"People who don't pay taxes, don't benefit from tax breaks."

Reiterating what I said with a little opinion blah-blah does not make basic facts “false”.

Ending convoluted tax avoidance schemes was the right thing to do just as it was right to introduce a straightforward and transparent saving/investment mechanism for all. The only link was that both were sound policies.

Outdated projection of Ontario deficit at $6.6 billion (that rounds to $7bn if you don’t intend to mislead) for the fiscal year is massive for a province but also false as the “good times”, are about to end and the cost of $3bn bribe isn’t counted. 4.5% is very high, doesn’t account for what’s about to happen, and thats just one level of government.