‘We did not break a promise’ by cancelling basic income project, social services minister insists

The welfare minister in Premier Doug Ford’s government is now denying her controversial decision to kill a basic income pilot project is a broken campaign promise, calling such reports “fake news.”

The claim from Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod came Thursday as criticism of the move grew deeper, particularly from former Progressive Conservative senator Hugh Segal, who helped the previous Liberal government design the program testing a new course for people on welfare. Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa Macleod said Thursday that Ontario’s PC government did not break a campaign promise by killing a basic […]

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