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Budget Bill and Social Assistance

social assistance: Refugee access to social assistance would be limited under budget bill, Oct. 25, according to The Star. Now the Conservative government plans to extend its rancid policies by permitting provinces to refuse welfare support to families fleeing to Canada to escape war, systemic torture, rape and persecution and Re: Refugee access to social assistance would be limited under budget bill, Oct. 25 The Conservative governments attack on refugees is relentless despite a July, 2014 Federal Court of Canada ruling that the health cuts to refugee claimants represent cruel and unusual treatment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.