Yes but where have we heard that before?


Quoting Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]>:

> 
> [apparently PC leader John Tory is in favour of removing the claw-back -
> dr]
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> http://tinyurl.com/qe83y
> 
> McGuinty under fire for benefits clawback
> `Most serious of broken promises'
> 
> Voters at polls for three by-elections
> Mar. 30, 2006. 01:00 AM
> ROBERT BENZIE
> QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF
> 
> 
> As voters go to the polls in three by-elections today, Premier Dalton
> McGuinty is weathering a storm over his government clawing back federal
> benefits for Ontario's poorest children.
> 
> NDP Leader Howard Hampton, whose party expects to regain the
> Toronto-Danforth riding, said the by-elections are a referendum on
> McGuinty's leadership.
> 
> "The failure to end the clawback of the national child benefit is the most
> recent — and I think the most serious — of a series of broken
> promises,"
> Hampton said yesterday... SNIP
> 
> ---------------------------
> Province ignoring 160,000 children
> Mar. 30, 2006. 01:00 AM
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/qkyu7
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Poor children still wait for fair deal
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Editorial, March 27.
> 
> Where is Queen's Park's soul indeed. It would have taken only 7 per cent of
> Ontario's $3 billion surplus for Premier Dalton McGuinty to keep his
> promise to poor families that he would end the clawback of the National
> Child Benefit Supplement.
> 
> The sum of $220 million — that is how much the Ontario government takes
> away from parents and children on social assistance every year. That
> translates into $1,400 a year per child for parents who are struggling to
> pay the rent and feed their children on as little as $987 a month. That
> $1,400 each year can make the difference between using food banks and
> having the money for nutritious food; between having to sit out school and
> sports activities and having the opportunity to participate in school and
> community life.
> 
> It would also be a huge gesture toward assuring those parents and children
> this government values them as highly as the low-income families who get to
> keep this anti-poverty benefit — something they certainly do not feel
> right
> now. Other priorities like transit are important, but what kind of
> government chooses to ignore the present and future well-being of more than
> 160,000 children and their parents? The indifference of this government
> shames us all.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Cynthia Wilkey, Income Security Advocacy Centre, Toronto

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