City caseworkers first came forward here in March, complaining their welfare clients were netting hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in food allowances for medical conditions they obviously didn't have.*
And Toronto's "dirty little secret" is costing us a fortune.
According to Toronto's 2009 operating budget report, it's now projected to cost as much as $55 million by the end of this year, with the city on the hook for 20%.
If you build it... they will come
Just something to think about, Toronto... the next time you have to cough up your increasingly outrageous municipal taxes...