Tragedy at a home daycare in Vaughan, ON

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As a self employed person I know I have to tread carefully in any discussion about fraud in the sense that while I don't set out to commit fraud most of us at one time or another have claimed a questionable item or even an item we know is wrong such as a receipt for two books knowing one was being given as a gift to a relative but come three years from now in an audit the expense will look legitimate. We defend it sometimes by saying well it makes up for the things I can't claim because I don't have a receipt for them... does not make it right.

There is nothing simple about how the tax laws, welfare laws, ODSP laws, childcare subsidy laws are determined and administered and the interpretation of the laws can even vary from one caseworker to another. We know that all of these systems are 100% broken and if we were in the position of finding a loophole that allowed us an extra $50 some month it is wrong for us to say we would not be tempted to take it because if you were really in that situation you do not know how you would react.