Ontario Tightens Social Assistance for Non-Permanent Residents as Conservatives Push for Harsher Immigrant Sentencing

Ontario has just rewritten the rules on who gets government help, explicitly barring people in the country illegally — and, more controversially, anyone on a temporary basis like work permits or student visas — from receiving Ontario Works or the Disability Support Program. Premier Doug Ford made the move after a tribunal ruling awarded benefits to a man whose temporary permit expired decades ago. The changes,...