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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

LIARS, LIARS.... EFFING LIARS...... These Cons have no idea what honesty is

‘Not our idea,’ Ontario tells Ottawa over controversial refugee welfare restrictions

The Ontario government is strongly denying Ottawa’s suggestion that a controversial move to restrict refugees’ access to welfare was the province’s idea.
 
On Thursday, a senior federal immigration director told a Senate committee that the proposal to allow provinces to impose a minimum residency requirement for people seeking social assistance — currently embedded in the omnibus budgetary Bill C-43 — “came up” during conversations with provincial officials.
 
“We had a number of conversations with the Government of Ontario where we were looking at the very generous benefits Canada provided to asylum claimants in the past, when we’re trying to identify what adjustments we should be making in order to discourage inappropriate asylum claims,” said Mark Davidson, Immigration’s director general for international and intergovernmental relations.
 
“During that conversation, the Province of Ontario actually reminded us that there’s a provision in the federal law that limits the ability of provincial governments to make this policy choice in their own jurisdiction.”
 
When pushed by Toronto Senator Art Eggleton as to whether Ontario asked for the change, Davidson replied: “I wouldn’t say the Government of Ontario has specifically asked for this but certainly it’s come up in the conversation we had with them in the recent past.”
 
A spokesperson for Community and Social Services Minister Helena Jaczek immediately rebuffed that claim.

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