The new Doug Ford government is cutting a planned three per cent welfare increase in half and scrapping a basic income pilot program the Progressive Conservatives promised to keep during the spring election campaign .
Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said Tuesday the increase scheduled by the defeated Liberal government will be reduced to 1.5 per cent, while the PC administration embarks on a 100-day revamp of social assistance programs serving almost one million Ontarians.
"They spent money the province didn’t have," MacLeod said of Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals, whose ill-fated budget projected a multi-billion-dollar deficit this year.Ford’s Tories did not mention […]
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