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What YOU can do to fight back! [1]

  1. Ask your doctor and other medical practitioners to speak out against changes to the Special Diet Allowance. Use the handy letter templates and phone scripts in Health Providers Against Poverty's Special Diet Allowance Action Kit .
  • Action Kit coverletter [2]
  • Action Kit MPP Letter [3]
  • Action Kit MPP Telephone Scripts [4]
  • Action Kit Poverty and Health [5]
  • Action Kit Special Diet Supplement Amounts [6]
  
  • Mobilize people in your community to protest the Special Diet changes and call on the Province to increase social assistance rates to reflect the real cost of living and end the NCBS clawback.                                  
  • Contact your MPP, Mayor and City Councillors to protest the changes to the Special Diet Allowance. Tell them how much these changes hurt you. Ask them how you're supposed to get by when social assistance rates are so grossly inadequate. Demand that the Province rescind the changes to the Special Diet Allowance, increase social assistance rates to reflect the real cost of living and end the NCBS clawback.
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    • Your local MPP (To find out who to contact, call Elections Ontario toll-free: 1-800-677-8683 or go to Elections Ontario [7] and click on "Find your electoral district"  
      
    • MPP Madeleine Meilleur: Minister of Community and Social Services Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services 80 Grosvenor St., 6th Flr, Hepburn Block, Toronto, ON, M7A 1E9 Telephone: 416-325-5225 / 1-888-789-4199 Fax: 416-325-1498 Email: mmeilleur.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org [8] Web Site: Ministry of Community and Social Services [9]

      Constituency Office: 237 Montreal Rd, Vanier ON K1L 6C7 Tel : 613-744-4484 Fax : 613-744-0889 Email: mmeilleur.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org [8]

    • MPP George Smitherman: Minister of Long Term Care and Health Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care 80 Grosvenor St., 10th Flr, Hepburn Block, Toronto, ON, M7A 2C4 Telephone: 416-327-4300 Fax: 416-326-1571 Email: gsmitherman.mpp@liberal.ola.org [10] Web Site: Ministry of Health and Long Term Care [11]

      Constituency Office: 120 Carlton St. Suite 413, Toronto ON M5A 4K2 Telephone: 416-972-7683 Fax: 416-972-7686 Email: gsmitherman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org [12]

    • MPP Jim Watson: Minister of Public Health Promotion Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion 250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2N5 Phone: 416-326-8500 Fax: 416-326-8520 Email: jwatson.mppo@liberal.ola.org [13] Web Site: Ministry of Health Promotion [14]

      Constituency Office: 201-2249 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, K2B 7E9 Telephone: 613-721-8075 Fax: 613-721-5756 Email: jwatson.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org [15]

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