Illegal immigrants not entitled to injury compensation from public funds: Ontario court

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Illegal immigrants not entitled to injury compensation from public funds: Ontario court
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Adrian Humphreys | September 29, 2016 9:01 PM ET
 

TORONTO — Illegal immigrants are not entitled to compensation from public funds for a motor vehicle accident, says Ontario’s court of appeal, which has rejected a hard-fought claim from a Brazilian man hurt in a hit-and-run when walking across a Toronto street.

Jarley Silva was run down in 2011 while he was walking across Bloor Street West. The driver was never identified.

Silva had arrived in Canada in 1992 using a fraudulent passport and lived partially off the grid — he obtained an Ontario driver’s licence but did not own a car or have insurance; he worked as a cleaner and then in construction, even registering his own drywall company, but did not report his income or pay tax.

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