Budget
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Open Letter to Premier McGuinty from the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction
As organizations committed to the mission to reduce poverty, we write to express our serious concern about recent moves your government has taken on the poverty front.
More than a year into Ontario’s efforts to reduce poverty by 25% by 2013, your government has made the following moves that call into question your government’s commitment to meeting its own poverty reduction goals:
1) Ending the Special Diet Allowance Program without a previous and clearly thought through replacement plan, which will result in a significant drop in income for people on social assistance who have health-related nutritional needs;
2) Allowing, for the first time since 2006, social assistance rate increases to fall below the rate of inflation.These actions are distressing, and – without adequate and commensurate resolution – threaten the health and safety of many struggling individuals in this province.
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Budget throws Ontario’s poor in limbo
The sting of recession and deep-seated poverty will continue for too many Ontarians who were left behind in today’s provincial budget, says the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction.
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Close Encounters of the ‘Thirties’ Kind
Close Encounters of the Thirties Kind, by social policy expert John Stapleton, is a blow-by-blow account of the similarities between Ontario circa 1930s and today.
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Think all stimulus is good stimulus? Not so fast
The federal government’s response to the recession has a sharply colonial dynamic to it. The fight for a more socially just Canada will be an anti-colonial struggle in support of indigenous rights, or it won’t be at all.
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Finance minister defends single tax
The government won’t collect more money through the overall tax package that includes the harmonized sales tax, Duncan said. “The government will actually have less revenue as a result of this overall package,” he said, adding the government projects it will collect $3.2 billion less in four years than it does today.
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Ontario Budget Notes
While it provides proportionally more short-term stimulus than the federal budget, it does not bode well for the longer-term investment in public services needed to renew Ontario’s economy.
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Ontario delivers a ‘hit and miss’ budget
In some places the budget was bold, in some places it merely did what it had to do, and other key areas it fell flat on its face. The big picture task of this budget was to fill the void left by the federal government’s weak response to the recession. Hit and Miss: Ontario’s 2009-10 Budget – PDF, 188 Kb.
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- Ministers meet for pension crisis talks – thestar.com
December 16, 2009The recession has exposed the fragility of the pension situation. About two-thirds of workers in Canada lack a workplace pension program and 1.6 million Canadian seniors at the low end of the wealth scale are trying to eke out an existence on less than $15,000 a year.
- Job training funded for older workers – CBC News
December 16, 2009A new joint initiative by the federal and Ontario governments will help unemployed older workers develop new skills that will help them find jobs.
- New payday loan limits don’t protect consumers: advocates – CBC News
December 16, 2009Some Ontario consumers could be caught in a never-ending cycle of borrowing from payday loan companies despite a new cap on loan fees and interest that came into effect Tuesday, warns an Ottawa-based public watchdog.
- Goar: Punished for working too diligently – thestar.com
December 16, 2009Premier Dalton McGuinty is aware of the problem. "Unwittingly, we have developed a policy that stomps you into the ground," he told Ontarians who rely on social assistance last spring.
- Quebec targets homelessness in $60.5M plan – CBC News
December 16, 2009Quebec has unveiled a new $60.5 million, three-year plan to fight homelessness, including measures to improve mid- and long-term housing options for people on the street.
- Stepping up for Ontarians: Staying the course on poverty reduction commitments
- Submission to the Ontario Government on Bill 218
- Stand Up Against the Backlash from the Auditor General’s Report
- Coalition warns poverty reduction at risk
- Countdown: Two Weeks to Dec. 4 Poverty Reduction Anniversary
- Ontarians Seek Bold Action on Affordable Housing: Report
- Action Alert: Meet the Commitment for a Social Assistance Review!
- Ontario delivers a ‘hit and miss’ budget
In some places the budget was bold, in some places it merely did what it had to do, and other key areas it fell flat on its face. The big picture task of this budget was to fill the void left by the federal government’s weak response to the recession. Hit and Miss: Ontario’s 2009-10 Budget – PDF, 188 Kb.
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