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Subject: [ocap] Hunger March, Raise the Rates Petition...
Sent: March 7, 2006 5:16:02 PM
1. Raise the Rates Petition
2. Hunger March - March 15
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(please forward far and wide...)
http://www.ocap.ca/rtr/diet/petition
It has now been made public that the Liberals will be passing their
budget
on March 23rd. In the lead up to that date many actions and
demonstrations are being planned in Ontario as a final push to demand an
increase to welfare and ODSP, along with a restoration of the special
diet
program. In adding to this, OCAP encourages you to sign the petition
below, not because we believe it will be a deathblow to the Liberals,
but
rather to consolidate the massive support that exists to ‘Raise the
Rates’
as we approach the budget’s release.
Every time someone signs the petition an e-mail will be sent to the
Premier and Social Services Minister Pupatello with the note below. We
ask you to add your name to this petition and forward it far and wide
and
to support the public actions being planned in the weeks ahead that
carry
these demands (see information about the Hunger March below).
To sign the petition, go to http://www.ocap.ca/rtr/diet/petition
OCAP
++++++++Petition+++++++++++
Premier McGuinty:
Your Government has not addressed the poverty and hunger of hundreds of
thousands of people in Ontario who must try to survive on welfare and
disability payments.
The grossly inadequate 3% increase in social assistance rates that you
have provided fails to address the massive 40% loss in real income for
the
poor that has taken place over the last ten years. Indeed, by breaking
your election pledge to index welfare income to the rate of inflation,
you
have created a situation where the poor will become poorer under your
Government than they were in the days of Mike Harris.
Your Minister of Community and Social Services, Sandra Pupatello, has
just
gutted the Special Diet Supplement. This allowed experienced medical
providers to diagnose food allowances that would protect the health of
those that governments (yours included) have legislated into poverty.
We, the undersigned, call upon your Government to restore the Special
Diet
Supplement and to include in the upcoming Provincial Budget a 40%
increase
in social assistance rates.
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2. HUNGER MARCH
Wednesday March 15
12 Noon
Metropolitan Church Park at Queen and Church
Toronto
Poor people are not able to eat and pay the rent.
The special diet money has been cut.
March to demand that McGuinty's provincial government raise social
assistance rates.
Demand a 40% Raise NOW!
Hunger March Coalition
Phone: 416-760-4979
Endorsed By: All Saints Church Community Centre, AllSaints Drop-In,
Canadian Auto Workers, CLAS Consumer Liaison Committee, Community Legal
Assistance-Sarnia, Fred Victor Centre, Health Providers Against Poverty,
Homelessness Action Group, Homeless Advisory Committee, Houselink,
Housing
Action Now, Income Security Advocacy Centre, The John Howard Society,
The
Medical Reform Group, No One is Illegal, ODSP Action
Coalition-Provincial,
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Ontario Coalition for Social Justice,
Ontario Needs a Raise, Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre, Parkdale
Community Legal Services, Parkdale Community Health Centre, Peterborough
Coalition for Social Justice, Peterborough Walk, Wheel & Ride for
Dignity,
Queen West Community Health Centre, Regent Park Community Health Centre,
San Lorenzo Anglican Parish, Street Health, Street Nurses’ Network,
Taproot Safe Community, The Centre for Social Justice, The Coalition
Against Psychiatric Assault, The Registered Nurses’ Association of
Ontario, Toronto Christian Resource Centre, Toronto Disaster Relief
Committee.
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Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6
416-925-6939 [log in to unmask] www.ocap.ca
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Elaine Power, Ph.D.
Health Studies Program
School of Physical and Health Education
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
phone: 613.533.6283
fax: 613.533.2009
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