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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Stapleton.jpg2000700In 1995, the Ontario Progressive Conservative government under Mike Harris cut welfare rates by 21.6 percent. David Tsubouchi, then minister of community and social services, was in charge of implementing the cuts. As “only one small part of this government’s commitment to helping people,” as Tsubouchi put it in a letter to Opposition Leader Bob […]