Ontario Tories to scrap basic income pilot, reduce planned increase to social assistance rates

Ontario Tories to scrap basic income pilot, reduce planned increase to social assistance rates

Ontario’s Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa Macleod attends Question Period at Queen’s Park, in Toronto on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government ushered in the first of what it promised would be major reforms to social assistance on Tuesday, reducing a planned increase in support rates and cancelling a pilot program that provided payments to low-income people in certain communities.

In an afternoon news conference, Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said the government would come up with a plan within 100 days to overhaul the “disjointed patchwork system” left by the previous Liberal regime.

The Liberals, […]

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