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Originally Posted by MetaMan
no the joke was that people from BC were flocking here and complaining about the low welfare rate and high cost of living,
what Klein was telling them to do is go back home if you dont like it here.
understand now?
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"But one constituency that continues to be forgotten - as has been the case for the last 12 years - is Alberta's poor. Some of the harshest cuts Klein made in the early 1990s came at the expense of the province's least fortunate residents. Welfare rates were slashed by around 20 per cent. The government decreed that "employable" welfare residents - by which it meant nearly everyone but the severely handicapped - must seek job retraining or risk losing their benefits. Tens of thousands were struck from the welfare rolls. Some fled to British Columbia, where monthly welfare payments were significantly higher,
clutching one-way bus tickets supplied by Alberta social services"
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...=M1ARTM0012648