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    Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:00:19 -0500 (EST)
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 Subject: [ocap] OCAP TAKES HOUSING TRIBUNAL - call/fax/e-mail McGuinty
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February 10, 2006

OCAP HAS TAKEN OVER McGUINTY’S HOUSING TRIBUNAL!

CALL/FAX/E-MAIL McGUINTY TO DEMAND A 40% RAISE TO WELFARE AND DISABILITY.

    At roughly 9.30 AM this morning, OCAP took over the Ontario Rental
Housing Tribunal at 47 Sheppard Ave. East.  This is the location where a
huge chunk of the evictions that fuel the homeless crisis are given the
legal stamp of approval.

The Harris Tories set up the Tribunal as part of their so called
‘Tenant Protection Act’.  Having cut welfare rates by 21.6% and made it
impossible for people to pay their rent, the Tories then created a
streamlined eviction process to enable landlords to put tenants on the
street with ease.  The McGuinty Liberals have maintained this situation
and hundreds of thousands still go hungry to pay the rent or give up their
housing to eat.

   The Liberals have recently gutted the Special Diet Program that enabled
poor people on welfare or disability to obtain a food allowance of up to
$250/month.  We are here today to demand that this decision be reversed
and that social assistance rates be increased by the 40% needed to restore
their
spending power to 1995 levels.  If the poor can’t have enough to eat and
pay the rent, economic evictions must stop.  For this reason, we have gone
to the Tribunal, today, to challenge its operations and ensure evictions
are prevented.

   Many directly affected by the cut to the Special Diet will be present
at 47 Sheppard.  It’s just one of a series of actions we will hold to beat
back McGuinty and Pupatello’s bid to reimpose hunger and poverty on
thousands of people.

CALL/FAX/E-MAIL DALTON McGUINTY

Demand that he restore the Special Diet Allowance and that Social
Assistance Rates be raised by 40%.

Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario, can be reached at:

E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: (416) 325-3745
Phone: (416) 325-3777


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