Disabling effect of Ontario Disability Benefits

Posted
August 31, 2011
Article Source
Toronto Star

From a Toronto Star column:

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has been transformed by the construction of many new buildings. I am interested in the architecture of another transformation.

It has been 20 years since anyone took a look at social assistance rates in this province, to which end a provincial commission has been on tour.

The commission held a community consultation at CAMH the other day. I bumped into a friend there. Her name is H. She's on disability. She knows better than I do that no one in this city can live in dignity on disability.

The rates themselves are disabling.

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