Dear Editor of the Toronto Star:

I understand that the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services is
cracking down on social assistance recipients and their health providers
who consider hunger and poverty to be a risk condition for health.  By
limiting access to the Dietary Food  Supplement Allowance, the government
is serving notice that it cares little about whether the most vulnerable in
our society stay well or become ill. I seem to recall that 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 recipeients. Where is Mr. Kennedy?

   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
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   Website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

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