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Ford hires U.S. firm to push Ontarians off welfare: Star publishes OPSEU opinion piece

The Toronto Star has published an Op-ed by OPSEU President Warren (Smoke) Thomas in which he questions the judgement of Ontario Premier Doug Ford for hiring a foreign company to handle a for-profit welfare program.

” All this does is create wealth for a foreign interest. It creates no benefit for people who get social assistance in Ontario. They will simply enter another kind of poverty — the working poor — or they will end up homeless or worse,” says Thomas.

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