Doug Ford is planning on privatizing Ontario’s welfare programs. [1] Last month, his government quietly launched a pilot program that would see services offered to Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program recipients administered by an American for-profit corporation in certain areas.

For now, it is just in Hamilton-Niagara, Peel, and Muskoka-Kawartha. Eventually, this plan would be spread across all of Ontario.

Other jurisdictions, like Australia and the U.K., have tried this. They failed horribly.[2] Contractors were incentivized to push people off welfare quickly, often into precarious work and whether or not they were ready to return to work.

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