Thank you for posting this, Dennis!  As a health professional I was
exceedingly proud of the compassion and understandingly displayed my sisters
and brothers on that convention floor as I sat among them!  It is a reminder
to me that it is only through broad coalitions of like minded individuals
and organizations that we will be able to push back against the Neo-Liberal
agenda.  I am taking the step of running in the federal election as a New
Democrat in Ottawa West-Nepean and I urge all members of the Listserv
whatever their political persuasion to pose the important questions to the
candidates and not to accept facile answers!  If nothing else it is an
opportunity to educate those members of the public who still pay attention
to the political process!
Marlene Rivier
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From: "Dennis Raphael" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: [SDOH] Ontario Federation of Labour Supports Special Diet Campaign


The Ontario Federation of Labour has passed a resolution submitted by the
local CUPE 225 in support of the Special Diet Campaign. It reads as
follows...

WHEREAS an insufficient income and an insufficient budget for food will
lead to malnutrition and long-term debilitating health effects;

WHEREAS social assistance recipients in Ontario have only received a 3%
increase since 1995, or $535 for a single person on GWA/OW; and

WHEREAS anti-poverty groups across the province have fought back by
organizing recipients to apply for the $250 special diet supplement,
holding clinics which have enabled thousands to access this entitlement;

BE IT RESOLVED that the OFL demand that the McGuinty government:

1. Rescind directives denying people who have already received the special
diet supplement to continue receiving it;

2. Rescind directives making the special diet supplement less accessible to
applicants; and

3. Extend a $250 increase to all social assistance recipients immediately.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED

4. That the OFL encourages affiliates to support local groups involved in
the special diet campaign.

On Tuesday, November 22 the resolution was passed unanimously.

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Submitted on November 25, 2005 - 6:30pm.
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