Kimberly Rogers Inquest Alerts
POST
ROGERS INQUEST ACTION KIT
Power
of FIVE to Ban the Bans!
Take
Action!
contact Premier Ernie
Eves
contact
Minister Brenda Elliott
contact
Conservative MPPs
write
Letters to the Editor
December
20, 2002
updated Jan. 10, 2003
It's
now up to all of us to each get involved if there's to be any hope of
affecting positive change. You've heard the Minister from Community,
Family & Children's Services, Brenda
Elliott! The Tories will review the recommendations and then stick
them on a shelf to collect DUST like other recommendations from previous
juries if we don't apply pressure.
These recommendations came from 5 Ontarians
- the 5 jurors from the Kimberly Rogers Inquest.
The most immediate and effective way we can mobilize ourselves to further
Justice with Dignity in Ontario is to share the message to Ban
the Bans with 5 others and ask them, in turn, to share the message with
5 others and so on, and so on...
Please make the time to contact 5 Tory MPPs as well as 5 people in your
network and ask your family, friends, colleagues, neighbours to contact
5 Tory MPPs and 5 others in their network. That's the Power of Five
to Ban the Bans.
Make 5 calls, write 5 letters, send 5 emails,
send 5 faxes, and/or visit your MPP.
Send a holiday greeting to Minister Elliott with the demand that her government work towards implementing each and every one of the Rogers Inquest recommendations directed at her Ministry ASAP.
Please consider including
support for the issue of social assistance recipients accessing student
loans to attend post secondary education.
Remind Minister Elliott that Ontarians are fed up with the Tories' draconian
policies that unfairly target poor people and demand an end to the Bans!
The Hon. Brenda
Elliott, Minister of Community, Family, & Children's Services
email: brenda_elliott@ontla.ola.org
online form: http://www.gov.on.ca/CSS/page/minister.html
Premier Ernie Eves
email: ernie_eves@ontla.ola.org
Conservative MPP phone/fax
http://dawn.thot.net/ontario-mpp.html#1
Conservative MPP email addresses
http://dawn.thot.net/ontario-mpp.html#2
Ontario MPP List
http://www.ontla.on.ca/Members/biographies/index.htm
Here is the pinpoint URL on the Ontario NDP website where you can send an electronic postcard directly to Ernie Eves and/or Brenda Elliot http://www.ontariondp.on.ca/issues/poverty/rogers.html
Letters
to Editor contact info
Toronto Star:
email: lettertoed@thestar.ca
| fax: 416.869.4322
Globe and Mail:
email: letters@globeandmail.ca
| fax: 416.585.5085
Northern
Life:
email: lifeedit@northernlife.ca
|
fax: 705-673-4652
National Post:
email: letters@nationalpost.com |
fax: 416.442.2209
Ottawa Citizen:
email: letters@thecitizen.southam.ca
Sudbury Star: We
can't in good conscience give credence to the Sudbury Star while workers
are locked out on the street.
Suggestions on what to include in your email to the Premier Ernie Eves and to the Honorable Brenda Elliott, Minister of Community, Family, & Children's Services:
- End the lifetime and temporary welfare bans;
- Increase social assistance rates to actually cover the basic cost of living;
- Allow social assistance recipients to access student loans to attend post secondary education;
- Fully implement the recommendations from the Kimberly Rogers Inquest Jury.
Sample
Letters to Editor
authored by Pedro Barata, Ontario Coordinator,
Campaign 2000 (reprinted
with permission)
Re Ontario to maintain welfare ban, Dec 20
The Ontario government's lifetime welfare ban surely cannot be about success in reducing fraud since there has never been evidence of widespread abuse in the welfare system. "Zero tolerance" policies are not about what is right or wrong, or even about what works. Instead, beating up on our society's most vulnerable has been an often-used hot-button issue to gain political capital.
Individuals and families on social assistance have been desperately struggling under the Tories' watch. Not only have benefits been slashed to appalling levels, the dignity of people on social assistance has been systematically undermined for political gain. The jury is out on Ontario's welfare policies: eliminate the welfare ban and base welfare benefits on the actual costs within a particular community or region. It is about time we ensure the dignity of all our neighbours.
Pedro Barata
(Ontario Coordinator, Campaign 2000)
355 Church Street, Toronto ON M5B 1Z8
Re Welfare ban policy
will stay, Dec 20
What exactly does Minister Elliot mean when she claims that her government's lifetime welfare ban is working? It surely cannot be about success in reducing fraud since there has never been evidence of widespread abuse in the welfare system. In fact the success that Minister Elliot refers to is about gaining political capital. This is not about what is right or wrong, or even about what works. Beating up on our society's most vulnerable has been an often-used hot-button issue to appease some voters.
Individuals and families on social assistance have been desperately struggling under the Tories' watch. Not only have benefits been slashed to appalling levels, the dignity of people on social assistance has been systematically undermined for political gain. The jury is out on Ontario's welfare policies: eliminate the welfare ban and base welfare benefits on the actual costs within a particular community or region. It is about time we ensure the dignity of all our neighbours.
Pedro Barata
(Ontario Coordinator, Campaign 2000)
355 Church Street, Toronto ON M5B 1Z8
Here are links to some useful resources
Alphabetical
Media Contact listings in Ontario by Community
Media Kit:
amended January 8, 2003
to add link to:
Martin
Launches Campaign For Change - Implement Kimberly Roger's Inquest Recommendations
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