What Is The Nutrioual Value In McGinty Promises

Low carb, high fat......what has he done during his time in office? He promised change and it would appear, if you listen to social in-activists, very little has changed except clawbacks of benefits given to the needy by the feds. Those who voted for McGinty and the Liberals should be ashamed of themselves.....

Countdown for poverty activists
March 09, 2007
Carol Goar

This should be a time of anticipation for the coalition of children's advocates, food bank organizers, church leaders and anti-poverty activists fighting to get help for Ontario's lowest-income families.

Dalton McGuinty has finally pledged to tackle child poverty. "In the weeks ahead, our government will act," he told fellow Liberals last week. "It's no longer just a moral imperative to ensure that the poor find opportunity and grow strong. At the beginning of the 21st century in a global economy, it's become an economic necessity."

But as the government finalizes its March 22 budget, there is as much apprehension as excitement in the air.

Although the premier is expected to introduce an Ontario Child Benefit, as the coalition has proposed, his version looks quite different from theirs: stingier, less equitable, with troubling gaps.

Some anti-poverty activists fear that the new benefit will be a minor improvement packaged as a major breakthrough. Others worry that McGuinty will use it to expunge his unfulfilled commitments to the poor.

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