Tuesday July 16, I attended a workshop "Making Space for Change: The Story of Manitoba's Rent Assist Benefit" The program highlighted the positive benefits of the rent assist program. The dramatic cuts by the Pallister government to the amount of support to many families were also shown (graph below). In the example shown, the Pallister Conservatives cut $190.30 per month from the rent assist contribution for a two parent family with 3 children whose income was at the market basket measure of poverty. This is a cut of $2283.60 per year for such families under the Pallister Conservatives.
Dougald Lamont speaks at Meth Forum last night to present positive ideas to address the epidemic, while exposing the lack of action by the Pallister Conservatives
Last night at the Notre Dame Recreation Centre in St. Boniface, at an Election Forum on the Meth Crisis in Manitoba, Dougald Lamont spoke eloquently about the severity of the meth epidemic and described the Liberal plan to address it. The Liberal Plan will make sure that there is a single province-wide phone number for people, or friends of people, who need help dealing with meth to call (as there is in Alberta) and that there will be rapid access to a seamless series of steps - stabilization, detoxification, treatment, extended supportive housing etc so that people with meth addiction can be helped well and effectively and so that they can rebuild their lives. The Liberal meth plan will be helped by our approach to mental health (putting psychological therapies under medicare), and to poverty (providing better support). It will also be helped by our vigorous efforts to help young people understand the problems with meth in our education system and to provide alternative positive
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