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So what your saying is that the city owns a portion of the land that a private citizen lives on and owns. Wouldn't that make it the cities land and not yours? Just because you own property adjacent to city land doesn't mean you own it all. So sure the city can do what it wants with the property it owns...it owns it after all.

You're opinion is wrong. The government cannot simply dig up your sidewalk to check for oil reservers nor can they dig up your lawn to put in a sidewalk! I'd like to know how you came to believe this.

I agree that some policing against fraud is necessary. I believe that the big deal here is due to the dramatic shift in policing. People just weren't and aren't ready for a government official to come-a-knockin' to ask if you've applied for a job in the last 24hrs. I think a more practical approach to policing the EI system could start at the application stage and not once Service Canada is already giving out the money. Perhaps if Service Canada had a better mechanism in place to identify potentially fraudulent claims there wouldn't need to be secondary policing (or door-to-door government agent interviews). I don't believe the government has done a good enough job labelling whom they deem to be EI offenders. What about contract teachers? They surely aren't abusing the EI system. Unlike a tenured teacher contract teachers do not get paid over the summer break. They are fully trained and educated int he teaching profession and are thus quite likely to acquire another teaching contract the following year (maybe even a tenured position). Should a contract teacher find another job between July and August? I don't know many employers that will hire someone for 6 weeks.