Disability Should Not Equal Poverty!


The pain, the loss, the disruption and the disorientation caused to a worker and his or her family by a disabling injury is suffering enough.  We should never add to this suffering the indignity of having to come cap in hand to the steps of the Legislature…

 - Ontario Labour Minister Bill Wrye, 1985

 

 It is in my opinion essential that as far as is practicable there should be certainty that the injured workman and his dependants shall receive the compensation to which they are entitled.

- The Hon. Sir William Ralph Meredith, Commissioner, Ontario, 1910


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