To find out more about the work of the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario, please visit their website.
If you have any comments or questions about the review, you can contact the Commission through their website or by email to socialassistancereview@ontario.ca.
The Ontario government has launched the first major review of the province’s social assistance programs in 20 years.
The review is being led by two commissioners:
- The Honourable Frances Lankin, P.C., Past President and CEO of United Way Toronto, and
- Dr. Munir Sheikh, former Chief Statistician for the Government of Canada.
The review began in January 2011 and will finish in June 2012. It will help Ontario develop an action plan that will make social assistance:
- more effective at getting people into jobs
- easier to understand
- work better with other federal, provincial and municipal income security programs, such as Employment Insurance, and
- more accountable and fiscally responsible.
This review follows on the recommendations of the Social Assistance Review Advisory Council. The council released its final report in June 2010.
Learn More “Ontario Launches Comprehensive Social Assistance Review”: News release and Backgrounder dated November 30, 2010 |
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