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Ignatieff pitches $1-billion family care plan
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
January 28, 2011
a much more fruitful alternative to the “fighter jets, jails and corporate tax cuts” proffered by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper…. Ignatieff wants to defray the costs of home care with a new, six-month family care employment-insurance benefit-vs. sixweeksof parental leave now available to some -in addition to a new family care benefit of up to $1,350 a year, tax-free. That $1 billion “is a gesture,” he said, to support family caregivers… an aging population -and the current piecemeal, fragmented system…
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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