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Conservatives dismantling social programs built over generations A Toronto Star analysis has for the first time pulled together a detailed account of the range of recent cuts seen under Stephen Harper’s government. Since winning power eight years ago next month, the federal Conservatives have chipped away at programs that helped define the compassionate, caring Canada built over the course of several generations. “It is changing Canada,” former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow says of the current federal approach to social and economic policy. “Unchecked, if we continue down this path, the big danger is a more regionalized and more unequal nation,” Romanow, who headed a royal commission on the future of health care in 2002, told the Star. Social programs long valued by Canadians are in the Conservatives’ crosshairs. thestar/…/conservatives_dismantling_social_p…
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:57:38 +0000

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