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Provincial Community and Social Services Minister Ted McMeekin

provincial Community and Social Services Minister Ted McMeekin: In the past four months, provincial Community and Social Services Minister Ted McMeekin met with some 147 groups to discuss how to make the maddeningly complex system more coherent and compassionate for about 900,000 adults and children who rely on it, according to The Star. The government has already acted on the commissions call to allow people on welfare to keep more of what they earn and hold more assets and There was no rest this summer for the man tasked with reforming Ontarios $8.3-billion welfare system. Last falls sweeping report by the provinces welfare review commission is guiding his work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.