I'm amazed how many people in Canada (mostly women) don't pay any taxes and yet live off of child support and child benefit cheques from the government. I know of so many here in the Okanagan just sitting around doing nothing, filing zero income tax returns and yet receiving $4-$5k a month in cheques, which are supposed to be going to the kids but of course the kids get squat. The dumbest thing the government ever did was make child support payments non-tax-deductible, as that created an entire class of zero-earning women in this country who sit around doing nothing all day.