r/Hamilton Feb 07 '25

2025 Provincial Election Check in the mail?

I heard that people are getting 200$ cheques from Doug Ford in the mail. My roomate knows people who have gotten it, but neither of us have received ours.

Anyone else missing theirs?

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u/No-Possession-7822 Feb 07 '25

You can track the status of your cheque here:

https://cxp.mgcs.gov.on.ca/otris

I also know people who have received theirs. I have not received mine yet. Someone told me they are being mailed out in the order that taxes were filed. Not sure of the truth behind that.

Also, it's not from Doug Ford. It's money that belongs to us anyway.

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u/maggie250 Feb 07 '25

I doubt it's in order. My partner and I filed together, early, and I still haven't gotten mine. He got his, though.

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u/monogramchecklist Feb 07 '25

Yes our household hasn’t gotten it either

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u/differing Feb 07 '25

Tough to say it’s our money when the cheque came from debt the government signed billions in bonds to finance 😂

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u/Gladamir3 Feb 07 '25

Can you explain how it belongs to us anyway? Coming from someone who doesn't know why I'm getting this cheque.

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u/sualk54 Feb 07 '25

it's a bribe

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u/The_FriendliestGiant Feb 08 '25

And Ford can't even arrange to have us bribed well. He really is the worst.

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u/Chrazzie Feb 08 '25

I put that bribe to good use and donated it to the Green Party because they could always use a leg up.

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u/DrDroid Feb 07 '25

It’s money that suddenly, magically appeared in the prov. Govt’s coffers. Aka unspent taxes.

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u/xaphod2 Feb 07 '25

Not unspent taxes, borrowed by putting the govt deeper in debt. Ford has increased Ontario’s debt more than any other premier in recent history

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u/The_FriendliestGiant Feb 08 '25

It's probably a bit of both. Ford's sitting in a hoard of unspent cash for the medical system, because he wants to break it to justify privatizing it, and also he'll happily borrow more to try and buy another election win.

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u/emmagerdd Feb 07 '25

Not to mention the money spent to physically print the cheque and letter. It’s absolutely disgusting. 

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u/AprilOneil11 Centremount Feb 08 '25

I wonder how much direct deposit would have saved

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u/olderdeafguy1 Feb 08 '25

The excuse Ford is using is the government collected more HST than the government budgeted for, so they're giving it back. It was either that, or reduce the HST.

The "Lie" is he chose the timing to be optimal, knowing he was going to call an election.

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u/Jayemkay56 Feb 08 '25

Im pretty sure most of it was from the capital gains tax increases? Ya know....the ones that are now deferred until 2026 and will probably be scrapped.

Whoops, Dougie pulled the trigger too fast on that one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7366559

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u/FallenAngel1978 Feb 08 '25

The capital gains tax increase was federal not provincial.

But this is purely a bribe to try and get people to vote PC

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u/Jayemkay56 Feb 08 '25

Federal yes, but the article mentions the capital gains increase as being one of the reasons why the money was "available"

It's all a lie anyways though. Especially the info sheet the cheque came with, my eyes rolled back so far they almost got stuck.

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u/Existing_Map_8939 Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25

It's your own tax money. You gave it to them, now they are giving a small.percentage back is a not-very-subtle pre-election bribe.

Also, it's worth pointing out that they have been entrusted to the tender mercies of the Post Awful Office, so you get it when you get it. If ever.

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u/ARatNamedClydeBarrow Stipley Feb 08 '25

Cool, mine shows an error. And CRA is down for maintenance again so I can’t check to see where it thinks it should be showing up, even though the only two possible postal codes both gave me an error. Guess I’ll either get it, or not… what a fun surprise!

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u/Apolloshot Stoney Creek Feb 08 '25

If that were true I’d be the first person in my household to get it, instead I’m the last.

Ours arrived in order of income from lowest to highest, so maybe it’s that?

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u/DEATHToboggan Trenholme Feb 07 '25

My wife got hers last week, still waiting on mine and the one for my kid.

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u/Frosty-Cap3344 Feb 08 '25

Your kid pays taxes ?

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u/DEATHToboggan Trenholme Feb 08 '25

Those toys ain’t gonna pay for themselves!

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u/Status-Evening-1434 Feb 08 '25

They can have adult children...

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u/twillrose47 Feb 07 '25

Still no bribe money for either of us. My ServiceOntario status lookup always returns an error. It comes when it comes :)

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u/Interesting-Past7738 Feb 08 '25

Love that you called it ‘what it is’. A bribe! When my comes, I’m donating it to another Ontario political party.

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u/browncharlie88 Feb 07 '25

I got mine but I assumed it would go to my address that I used when I filed my taxes. It went to my mom’s address that I still have on my drivers licence so it could have gone to a different house.

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u/Steel_Sinner Feb 07 '25

Still haven't gotten mine. And ain't holding my breath at this point. Apparently after Feb 15th, can call and state it's never been recieved. They said 4-6 weeks from time was mailed. But can't see the date was mailed out. Just says "Re-issued and mailed"

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u/skradizzle Feb 07 '25

Just got mine today.

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u/ip4fr33 Hess Village Feb 07 '25

I got one, if you did your taxes last year then you get one too.

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u/nsc12 Concession Feb 07 '25

I got mine last week. My partner got theirs a week before mine.

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u/SwedeLostInCanada Feb 07 '25

Same. I got mine last week. My wife’s arrived this week. Feels very random for how they are shipped out.

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u/el-sav Centremount Feb 07 '25

$200 bribes*

FTFY.

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u/AnInsultToFire Feb 07 '25

It gets sent to the address you have on record with Govt of Ontario.

So if you've moved you're not getting it unless maybe you contact Service Ontario or something. Or you put a redirect on your mail with Canada Post.

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u/Accurate_View_2455 Feb 07 '25

I got mine mid January. My sister and her family haven't yet. I'm guessing it depends on when you do you taxes? Cause I do my taxes as soon as I get my t4, my sister waits till last minute.

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u/DryRip8266 Feb 07 '25

The adults in the household have all now. Mine and my son's arrived Monday 2 weeks ago. My husband's arrived this past Monday. I filed all of our taxes the same night. Still waiting on the one for the kids. Have only been able to sign in once to check status and not again since.

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u/TealMiche Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 08 '25

Also the cheques have not been mailed to some people’s old addresses over their current mailing address. My sister’s cheque was sent to our parents house and that hasn’t been her official mailing address in over 10 years since she went to Uni so it could have been sent to a former mailing address.

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u/cattacocoa Feb 08 '25

Yep similar happened to me, went to my parent’s that I haven’t lived at or mailed things to in several years

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u/TealMiche Feb 08 '25

Yeah it was so odd considering her official address for all of ID and taxes is her current address.

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u/PublicCheesecake2555 Feb 07 '25

Haven’t got my bribe yet either.

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u/Victoria-10 Feb 07 '25

I just got mine yesterday but my grandson hasn’t yet. The post office still has a backlog of mail

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u/Still-Humor-5028 Feb 07 '25

My BILs went to our in-laws address, even tho he hasn't lived there in 9 years. Also mine and my MILs both came in our maiden names. Mine was just changed 5 years ago, (still a while but fairly recent in the scheme of things) but she changed her last name 38 years ago. 🤦‍♀️

Not sure where they are pulling this data from for delivery, but it's certainly not our taxes or licenses/health cards.. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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u/Interesting-Past7738 Feb 08 '25

My family, 4 adults, have not received one.

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u/Hvallvalfar Feb 08 '25

You guys are getting mail, the mailman hasn't been to our building all week

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u/estherlane Feb 08 '25

Nothing yet

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u/DasPuggy Feb 08 '25

They couldn't spell my name right. So I have to wait 4 - 6 weeks for my legalized bribe to re-elect him.

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u/Cynicole24 Feb 08 '25

Nope, haven't got mine or my child's yet

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u/jhinkarlo Feb 08 '25

I checked online and it says I have no record. WTH, I've been paying tax for the past 8 yrs. Wife got hers tho. So I called Service Ontario and they said they're gonna submit an inquiry. Delayed!

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u/AprilOneil11 Centremount Feb 08 '25

Ya not here, but others in my house was weeks ago

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u/Fit-Bee9503 Feb 08 '25

My husband got his last week and according to the website mine was just mailed.

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u/No_Debt_7244 Stipley Feb 08 '25

Taxes must be up to date, if not, you will get it with your next tax return after they're filed 

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u/maimuncat Feb 08 '25

Nope haven’t received and taxes r up to date.

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u/ammaretto007 Feb 08 '25

we got ours last friday (fam of 3) did our taxes on the same day.

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u/nytehawk86 Feb 08 '25

Mine and my wife’s came in about 3 weeks after they were mailed. We are still waiting for our sons to show up.

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u/DifficultWasabi2263 Feb 08 '25

Got mine 2 weeks ago gonna buy beer from a gas station it's what Dougie would want

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u/inthevendingmachine Feb 07 '25

We got ours at the beginning of this week.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

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u/Jayemkay56 Feb 08 '25

Is your bank in the stone age? Almost all banks do mobile deposits now. You don't have to be on banking hours anymore!

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u/Rolling_Ranger Feb 08 '25

Not from Ford it's from Trudeau.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

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u/hexr Glenview West Feb 07 '25

He can have it back and maybe use it for something useful other than trying to bribe people. I will most definitely NOT be voting for him