Paying the bills

[Lissa]

In the old West, such a gal was often referred to as

"A Montgomery Ward Wife, Sent on Approval."

I concur with your gut feeling that you should not foot the bill for her.

Occhi

In the case of Mr. Dzihic I think he does have a point. He did report her to the Canadian equivalent of the the US INS. He reported her to be deported, yet the Canadian Government never moved on it, even after she signed up for this welfare. So who's really the one at fault here for her taking tax payer money, Mr. Dzihic who reported her immediately for deportation or the Canadian Government that didn't move on this deportation and revocation of sponsorship. The only failing I see by Mr. Dzihic is not making sure she was deported.

In the case of Ms. Collum's case, she should have made sure that her soon-to-be former husband got on that plane and left on the plane back to Kenya instead of just giving him the ticket and expecting him to use it. Unlike Mr. Dzihic, it doesn't appear that she took steps to report her soon-to-be former husband to the Canadian Goverment for deportation. In this case, the onus was on her to make sure he was out of the country instead of expecting him to just go on his own.

In essence, Mr. Dzihic took necessary steps to get his deadbeat sponsor reported to the Canadian Government to have her removed from the country while Ms. Collum took it upon herself to try and get her deadbeat sponsor out of the country instead of notifying the proper authorities.