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- From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: No More Sheltered Work Shops
- Message-ID: <13763@grayt>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:54:26 GMT
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- The Ontario (NDP) government has announced that it intends to close
- all sheltered work shops for the developmentally handicapped (the latest
- euphemism for the group which was previously called the mentally
- retarded). The government intend to close the work shops in favour
- of "community" solutions.
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- So far the government's actions have been to delete five million from the
- budget for work shops and provide two million for "community" services.
- The government does not have or intends to provide a defintition of
- a "community" service. Instead it expects the "community" to come up with
- services which it will fund.
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- Rumour has it that the NDP government intends to implement the same policy
- with the psychiatrically impaired although no such policy has been announced.
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- Essentially, the policy is to remove the government from services to these
- groups and the institution of a new policy of politically correct rhetoric.
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