The government that is cracking down on social assistance recipients and
their health providers who consider hunger and poverty to be a risk
condition for health is the same government that has established a Ministry
of Health Promotion (Rogue advocates' for GTA's poor speak out, November
25).  What does the new Ministry of Health Promotion have to say about how
limiting access to the Dietary Food  Supplement Allowance directly
threatens the health of poor families? Current Education Minister Kennedy
resigned as Director of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto in disgust
over the previous government's treatment of the poor to run as a Liberal
for the provincial parliament.  I wonder where his concern about hunger and
deprivation in Ontario has gone now that he is in Cabinet.  By the way, Mr.
Kennedy's  previous employment venue -- the Daily Bread Food Bank -- has
endorsed the campaign to extend the Food Supplement Allowance to all social
assistance recipients. Where is Mr. Kennedy's voice now?

   Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
   Associate Professor & Undergraduate Programme Director
   School of Health Policy & Management
   Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
   York University
   4700 Keele St.
   Toronto ON M3J 1P3
   Ph: 416-736-2100 ext. 22134
   Fax: 416-736-5227
   E-mail: [log in to unmask]
   Website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

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