Ontario Advisory Group on New Social Assistance Legislation.

• Advisory Group on New Social Assistance Legislation.

The group was comprised of a 12 person committee drawn from the different regions of the province and from different backgrounds and interests. During the project, it underwent several changes in membership. Mary Jane Mossman, a lawyer teaching in the Faculty of Law at Osgoode Hall, York University, was unable to remain with the Advisory Group before the completion of the first report. She was replaced by Patrick Case, a lawyer who was then a member of staff of Parkdale Community Legal Service, and then later joined the staff of the Toronto Board of Education as coordinator of Employment Equity. Courtney Pratt, Senior Vice-President at Noranda and Julie Davis, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ontario Federation of Labour resigned after the completion of the first report. Julie White, National Manager, Public Affairs for Levi-Strauss Corporation and Duncan MacDonald, Programs Coordinator of the Ontario Federation of Labour joined as the Group was preparing the second report. Consistent throughout was the Chair, Alan Moscovitch.

The Advisory Group on New Social Assistance Legislation was appointed by the Peterson government in 1990 to provide community based advice to the Minister of Community and Social Services, Chalres Beer, on how to transform the many recommendations of the social Assistance Review Committee into new social assistance legislation.

jThe mandate of the Group as set out in the Terms of Reference for the Advisory Group, was to advise the Minister on options for the development of new social assistance legislation. Recommendations included that the Family Benefits Act and General Welfare Assistance Act be merged into one new piece of legislation; that the new Act should have a preamble setting out principles of legislation, and that the essential elements of the new legislation be set out in statute rather than in regulations of policy manuals; and [perhaps the boldest] that the development of new legislation should include a public consultation.

The Advisory Group on New Social Assistance Legislation was appointed by the Peterson government in 1990

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Advisory Group on New Social Assistance Legislation - Final report, Time for Action, released May 1992

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