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Recommended Terms of Reference

The Social Assistance Review Advisory Council recommends that Ontario initiate the Ontario Income Security Review, pursuant to its commitment in Breaking the Cycle and its vision “of a province where every person has the opportunity to achieve his or her full potential and contribute to and participate in a prosperous and healthy Ontario.”

The Social Assistance Review Advisory Council recommends that the Ontario Income Security Review be asked to undertake a comprehensive assessment of income security, employment supports and related services for working-age adults. The Review should include federal programs such as Employment Insurance, provincial programs such as Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program, as well as municipal, local and community roles. The review should also include a plan to deal with financial and other mechanisms required to navigate through a changed income security system.

The process of transformation will necessarily involve other orders of government: the federal government must eventually be engaged. Lack of federal government co-operation, however, should not impede Ontario's work to define the reforms needed in federal programs to meet Ontario’s interests.