There are lazy, wasteful, ignorant and unnecessary hand out recipients that take government funds and drain public resources for their own gain … the rich and wealthy elites and corporations that do their very best to pay as little tax as possible while at the same time asking for government help to build their businesses to gain even more money for themselves.

Public social welfare is a benefit to society because if instituted more frequently and effectively, it would raise so many thousands of people and families out of poverty or near poverty and generations from now enrich the province through the contributions of healthier, wealthier people.

Corporate welfare is nothing but a drain on government resources that provides no benefit for the government or the public because it only enriches a handful of people while driving everyone else towards poverty, the results of which eats away at democratic institutions and society as a whole.

Ontario works is barely a stopgap between people and poverty when legitimate disabilities are going undiagnosed and without care because of the lack of doctors. In Ontario, you need a doctor to get on long term disability.

Over and over again we see studies that support how increased funding for social programs are better for people, healthcare, communities and local economies.