by not being afraid of Jack, Thursday, March 19, 1981,,  10 
     
    
   
   
    
     Welfare llnqui 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Gary Fisher - 
     
    

    
     With the introduction of 
     
     the provincial govern- 
     
     ment's budget last Thursday 
     
     citizens who were concerned 
     
     with the plight of those 
     
     receiving welfare ass— 
     
     istance found that the 
     
     government was planning 
     
     to take action on sane 
     
     of the recanendations 
     
     made by the welfare inq— 
     
     uiry. On the third of 
     
     March‘Bl, a document 
     
    
   
   
    
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     prepared by the Special 
     
     Services Division was 
     
     released. This paper 
     
     listed the reccnendations 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the inquiry and  
     
    
   
   
    
     on their current status. 
     
     This paper demonstrates 
     
     that the department of 
     
     Health and Social Services 
     
     has in fact reviewed ’the 
     
     recorrendations of the re— 
     
     port and has taken action 
     
     on sane of the proposals 
     
     presented to them. The ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     department should be 
     
     commended for its per- 
     
     formance in implementing 
     
     sane of the recouendations 
     
     of the Commission's Report. 
     
     However, after reading the 
     
     brief submitted by the Social 
     
     Service Branch of the Depart- 
     
     ment of Health and Social 
     
     Services to the commission 
     
     of inquiry in May 80, I 
     
     begin to wonder if the action 
     
     taken by the government is 
     
     a result of the recanen— 
     
    
   
   
    
     lY‘Resu‘lts 
     
    
   
   
    
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     dations of the inquiry or 
     
    

    
     if there would have been 
     
     action taken anyway had there 
     
     never been an inquiry. It 
     
     appears that what the govern- 
     
     ment was looking fbr was 
     
    

    
     a philosophical direction 
     
     and what it recieved was 
     
     a mishmash of short term 
     
     benifits. On page 13 of 
     
     their brief they pose 
     
     questions like: "Is there 
     
     a right to financial ass- 
     
     istance on the part of 
     
     persons in need?" or 
     
     "Does he (recipient) have 
     
     other rights such as the 
     
     right to confidentiality? 
     
     to have information about 
     
     assistance? to personal 
     
     atoncmy? to his own values 
     
     and moral code? to his 
     
     own behavior?" . 
     
    

    
     The failure of the ccmn— 
     
     ission to address them- 
     
     selves to these questions 
     
     of human rights cannot be 
     
     excused. However, the 
     
     government should answer 
     
     these questions themselves 
     
     and then go to the people. 
     
     The failure of the govern— 
     
     ment and of this Commission 
     
     to answer these basic 
     
     questions of‘htma'n rights 
     
     leaves the recipients in 
     
     a sorry state. 
     
    

    
     It is time thatthet,  - 
     
     government  ‘the Vf'tizens 
     
     of this province tell the 
     
     poor that just because you 
     
     are poor does not mean that 
     
     you are any less a human, 
     
     and as such you are « 
     
     entitled to the same rights 
     
     as the rest of us. If we 
     
     cannot abolish discrimination 
     
     and inequality on the Island 
     
     then what chance does the 
     
     world have? 
     
    
   
   
    
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