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to “Partners for Jobs” team July 13th 2000
From: ROBERT
CHISHOLM
To: hendrico@rmoc.on.ca
Date: Thursday, July
13, 2000 9:44 AM
Subject: FROM ROBERT T. CHISHOLM
Date:
Thursday, July 13th, 2000 Did you have a chance to look
at my web site yet?
One topic
which I have not covered on my web site, so far, is the dispute concerning
"Partners for Jobs" versus Ontario Workfare. Something has to be done to stop this and to dissuade
John Baird from carrying out his threat to withold funds from the R.M.O.C. for
not pursuing Ontario Workfare aggressively enough. If John Baird actually does
this, then all it will actually be doing is to work against generating tax
revenues for Ontario as well for the federal government - quite apart from
social concerns; in addition I don't like the idea of myself and other
unemployed people being used as political footballs to no purpose, on
account of this. The Ontario government
is also arrogantly assuming - incorrectly - that people like myself won't have
the knowledge or power to do anything about it. If there is
clear proof that "Partners for Jobs" is producing better results than
Ontario Workfare, then we should be persuading John Baird to make an exception and to consider adopting
it for the rest of Ontario - based on
better returns (in the form of tax revenue) on investment, apart from other
considerations. It would be in the Ontario government's interest to operate in
this way - based on seeking to maximise the returns to the tax base on a given
sum of money invested , apart from other considerations. I was annoyed this morning by the appearance in my
mail box of a fold-out Ontario government brochure, "Making Welfare
Work", which put forward some plausible but incomplete arguments in
support of the Ontario workfare program. We don't need confusion being spread
as a result of such plausible but incomplete arguments. It seems to me that what we need is a comprehensive and complete
evaluation of Ontario workfare versus "Partners for Jobs" for the
public to view, according to an agreed set of criteria. I could do this for you, through my web site - but
of course will need further information than I currently have. Some money and
support for getting my web site publicised would also help. Why don't we
discuss it with Dick Stewart, among others? I have more
ideas, arising out of the Caledon Institute report "Survival of the
Fittest Employment Policy" among other things, but will leave these for a
future occasion.
Regards, Robert T. Chisholm.
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