Premier Won’t Budge on Financial Aid

Premier Dalton McGuinty won’t commit to new funding for the province’s struggling Children’s Aid Societies, even as they lay off staff and warn of closures.
The children’s aid society representing Atikokan and Fort Frances has been forced to find cost-saving measures to cover a nearly 600-thousand budget shortfall.
McGuinty says there has been a “dramatic increase” in overall funding for the agency’s.
He says he’s willing to look at ways to re-organize the funding so that it’s better distributed.