Hamilton East MPP Andrea Horwath says for more than three years the McGuinty Liberals concealed a crucial report that recommends workplace injury coverage for all Ontario workers.

Currently more than 1.3 million workers, some 35 per cent of Ontario’s workforce, can’t access compensation for on-the-job injuries because they are excluded under the Workplace Safety Insurance Act.

Hamilton East MPP Andrea Horwath says the timing for mailing out disability support cheques puts people with disabilities and low incomes in deeper financial trouble.

In the statement marking to provincial legislature marking the International Day of Disabled Persons, Horwath urged the McGuinty government to make allowances for the fact that Ontario Disability Support Plan cheques arrive after the deadline for paying hydro bills has passed, prompting ODSP clients to be hit with unaffordable late penalties and security deposits “through no fault of their own.”

Hamilton East MPP Andrea Horwath says Dalton McGuinty’s refusal to restore the full special diet allowance to a Hamilton resident with debilitating Lou Gehrig’s disease is an insult to people who need help affording food for medical reasons.

NDP Leader Howard Hampton wants to know why Dalton McGuinty is letting down Ontario′s disabled citizens.

Today, Ontario′s Ombudsman sounded the alarm about a “bureaucratic nightmare” that is denying disabled citizens disability benefits they are legally entitled to.