“No, a horse or any other animal is not eligible for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit,” says Canada Revenue Agency
Are you worried barnyard animals could be defrauding the federal government? Hold your horses, the head of a right-wing tax group is now saying: Nay.
Aaron Wudrick, the federal director of Canadian Taxpayers Federation, now admits he was probably wrong when he tweeted that a horse is drawing $500 per week Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) cheques.
“Just got an email from someone,” Wudrick tweeted Thursday.
Wudrick said the emailer informed him that he “knows an individual who owns horses — and filed for CERB in his horses’ names!”
“How can the government stand idly by and shrug off this kind of fraud?” he asked.
Wudrick’s claim — that horses are successfully applying for financial support from the federal government using their own names — was met with skepticism from a number of Twitter users.
However, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation director insists the email he received about a horse collecting CERB is 100% real, although he also admits he’s never heard of “the fellow that emailed me” before.
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