As mean as this sounds, it is even more mean for someone like me, I immigrated legally and I have been a citizen for over 10 years now, I am working for a company powerwashing for 3 years now, about a year ago one Mexican with a tourist visa started to work here, payed under the table, a year later now, there is only 6 of us legally working and paying taxes, and about 10 more Mexicans that came thanks to his friend all being payed under the table and now I am loosing hours that are going to them, and it just got worst now with the pandemic, our job sites got reduced to one building, so instead of keeping the original 6 legal workers where we all would have still an almost full time job income, everybody is only having a couple shifts a week and no one is getting enough money, and to top it off, since they are getting cash, they dont get taxes deducted, so they get more cash in their pockets to send to Mexico than us to pay our rents and groceries here....I know its tough everywhere, and I feel bad, but it is very unfair for me and my other co workers who have been paying taxes for years and continue to do so, specially in this times, I don’t want to apply for assistance cause I know the system is overwhelmed and I do have a job that actually has enough hours for me to get a full cheque since there only 6 people reported to the CRA, but they don’t know the extra 10 people taking most of that work away....
