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RSS FeedsMartin Regg Cohn: Secret document shows how far Doug Ford´s Tories would cut social services - until they were talked back from the brink
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

16 may 2019 05:06:27

 
Martin Regg Cohn: Secret document shows how far Doug Ford´s Tories would cut social services - until they were talked back from the brink
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


A secret cabinet draft reveals that draconian cuts to social services, first considered by Doug Ford’s government for its April budget, provoked strong internal warnings of potential human suffering, legal peril and political fallout.Labelled “High Sensitivity — Confidential Advice to Cabinet,” the document contains unusually strong language from civil servants warning decision-makers they were jeopardizing the lives of Ontario’s most vulnerable people as the budget planning process got underway.According to the draft obtained by the Toronto Star, massive cuts would pose “a danger to life for children and youth at risk or in need of protection.” Many families “will be at higher risk of going into crises.”The government’s initial ambition of rapid deficit reduction, based on sweeping cuts with “aggressive timelines,” amounted to false economies likely to come back to haunt the province:“Program cuts in one area will drive pressures in others. A shift from prevention/early intervention will drive up long term costs. . . . Decreased funding will increase pressures on other government resources (e.g. shelters, hospitals and police).”Over and over, it raises grim scenarios about the risk of “service reductions or disruptions to the most vulnerable in our society across all parts of the province” if developmental services are cut or the highly-praised Ontario Child Benefit is sacrificed. The undercurrent of the document is a desperate attempt to talk the Tories back from the brink — and a government preoccupied with talking points to persuade people it’s doing the right thing.Read more:Tories slash $17M from services for victims of violenceFord cuts will cost Toronto $177.65 million this year, city manager warnsSocial programs face $1 billion spending cut in Ontario budgetThe premier’s office said it could not comment on cabinet confidences. But it noted t ...


 
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