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Ontario scraps special-diet allowance
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Thursday, Apr. 01, 2010
The cost of the special allowance ballooned from $6 million a year in 2002 to $250 million last year, and could swell to $750 million if something isn’t done, Premier Dalton McGuinty said. “We have a responsibility not only to those individuals who are in need of special nutritional support, we also have accountability to taxpayers to make sure this is run as efficiently and effectively as we can.”
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