Comments on: New Ontario Premier wants action on welfare & housing https://cwp-csp.ca/2013/02/ontario-premier-wants-action-on-welfare-housing/ Poverty is a violation of human rights. Sun, 02 Oct 2022 03:23:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Right to Housing Charter Challenge in the Courts | Canada Without Poverty https://cwp-csp.ca/2013/02/ontario-premier-wants-action-on-welfare-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Mon, 27 May 2013 22:45:47 +0000 https://cwp-csp.ca/?p=2606#comment-68 […] The government does not believe they need to assist homeless people. Today ON and Canadian government lawyers argued that they don’t need to actively do anything to end homelessness, as long as they don’t make it worse (which reminds me – should they mention recent austerity budgets, cuts to EI, changes to OAS/GIS, lower funding to the Homelessness Partnership Strategy?).  Sounds like a different tune from LAST WEEK when Premier Kathleen Wynne stated that she is ‘determined’ to see more affordable housing built, and this is in complete contrast to the fall when Wynne supported the development of a national housing strategy. […]

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By: Media and Policy News: 4 Feb 2013 https://cwp-csp.ca/2013/02/ontario-premier-wants-action-on-welfare-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:29:35 +0000 https://cwp-csp.ca/?p=2606#comment-55 […] Canada Without Poverty comments on Wynne’s positions on social programs: https://cwp-csp.ca/2013/02/ontario-premier-wants-action-on-welfare-housing/ […]

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