Three out of four have no social welfare entitlements.

Three out of four have no social welfare entitlements.

But it helps if they have a good social support system.

Especially when the UK has a very generous social welfare system.

Archive: Statement by Minister Milloy on Social Assistance Review

Some of our recommendations in those reports are relevant for social assistance reform:

The Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario has released Discussion Paper 2: Approaches for Reform and What We Heard: A Summary of Discussion on Social Assistance.

We still pay taxes to finance the Public Service and the Social Security system.

In general, a stable, interested, helpful, available social support system tends to prevent crises.

They speak of a welfare system that would only add to the burden of the poorest Canadians.

Cash hand-outs and a generous welfare system reduce the risk of economically motivated unrest taking hold.

There is no welfare system, no library that subsists on your good intentions.

Ontario's social assistance review is part of the government's Poverty Reduction Strategy.

A single system to support rather than several small and different systems

For example, far from encouraging welfare recipients to find work, the welfare system makes getting back to work an obstacle course.