well to start with, Martin also remove 50 billion dollars from an account that suposed to help out those in need transfered it to general revenue in order to balance the budget while making no program spending cuts beyond the transfers back to the provinces where the money came from in the first place.
Harris cut down on the amount of wealfare provided to people, instituted rules regarding welfare fraud and did indeed cut all government spending in order to balance the books.
There is actually a difference there .
Interestingly other provinces were actually providing bus tickets to Toronto for there wealfare clients as the benefits were some better in Ontario following the Rae and Peterson governments. People could make more money on welfare than they could working .
Before the flaming starts, I expect the government to help those that CAN NOT help themselves, those that are to lazy to help themselves can starve.
Harris cut down on the amount of wealfare provided to people, instituted rules regarding welfare fraud and did indeed cut all government spending in order to balance the books.
There is actually a difference there .
Interestingly other provinces were actually providing bus tickets to Toronto for there wealfare clients as the benefits were some better in Ontario following the Rae and Peterson governments. People could make more money on welfare than they could working .
Before the flaming starts, I expect the government to help those that CAN NOT help themselves, those that are to lazy to help themselves can starve.