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By JACK RIDDELL M.P.P.
"Law and the Woman in
Ontario" an authoritative
question-and-answer guide to
women's rights and respon-
sibilities under Ontario Law was
published by the Ministry of
Labour's Women's Bureau.
This 47 page guide is a revised
and widely expanded version of
the booklet "Law and the Woman
in Ontario," and covers aspects
of law of concern to women, such
as the law and the consumer, sex,
political rights, labour law,
welfare, property, marriage,
legal aid and law reform.
This booklet presents a more
comprehensive outline of the law
than any previous publication of
the Bureau and includes a list of
other useful sources of in-
formation. However, it is no
substitute for professional
counsel.
This revised booklet through
the question and answer format
covers the important aspects of
birth control, sterilization,
abortion, artificial insemination
and rape.
Another section in the booklet
covers welfare. Under this
general heading, there is in-
formation on family benefits,
general welfare assistance,
special aid and supplementary
aid. The sections on property
rights and labour law have been
considerably expanded.
The position of married women
and ownership of property are
covered. The section on
pregnancy leave has been widely
revised, and income tax con-
siderations have been included
for the first time. Under labour
law wide coverage is also given to
such subjects as discrimination,
minimum wage laws, hours of
work, termination of em-
ployment and child care.
Consumer rights are outlined
under law and the consumer,
with sections on contracts, credit
and bankruptcies and debts.
There is also a more detailed
section on support.
Annulment, separation and
divorce are covered under
dissolution of marriage.
The four major sections of the
booklet, labour law, support,
property and dissolution of
marriage will be available
separately later in leaflet form.
When the Guaranteed Annual
Income System was introduced in
Ontario last year, disabled, aged
and blind citizens began
receiving much higher
allowances than their Per-
manently Unemployable coun-
terparts (prior to the introduction
of GAINS the allowances were
equal). Consequently the
Ministry of Community and
Social Services was deluged with
requests to reassess permanently
unemployable benefit recipients
as disabled.
The Ministry sent out a form
letter to recipients of benefits in
the Permanently Unemployable
category, informing them that
cases were being reviewed and
that "in order to complete the
review our Medical Advisory
Board requires up to date
reports. We have enclosed a
medical form to be completed by
your doctor and return to us."
As a result of the review, some
50 percent of the 10,000 people in
the Permanently Unemployable
category have been reclassified
as disabled. However, the
Ministry is refusing to pay the
doctors for the medical
examinations which were carried
out as part of the government
review. OHIP has also refused to
pay these bills.
The Minister of the Environ-
ment has announced that the
government is moving ahead
with the program to rid the
countryside of some 400,000
abandoned and rusting vehicles.
It is hoped that the programme
will eventually pay for itself in 16
areas of the Province, because
municipalities are to collect the
abandoned vehicles, tow them to
existing recycling plants or new
ones to be built, and keep
whatever money they are paid
for the vehicles.
Revenues should eventually
reduce or eliminate the
provincial subsidy for the
programme. In cases where the
municipalities concerned are
reluctant to participate in the
programme, the Ministry will
buy land, collect the hulks and
sell them.
In a brief to the Government of
Ontario, the Ontario Federation
of Labour is demanding an im-
mediate start to a massive
provincial housing programme.
The Federation states that
housing is now out of reach for
"thousands upon thousands" of
citizens in the Province, and
charges that the Government's
Ministry of Housing has produced
more announcements and
publicity hand-outs than houses
over the past year.
The brief blames "land
speculation, usury in terms of
high interest rates, political buck
passing, lack of planning and
ages of neglect by all levels of
government." The federation
also urges the Government to
remove the tax on homes owned
by pensioners and provide them
with supplemental shelter
allowances.
People on fixed incomes,
pensions, disability allowances
and welfare, have had their in-
comes so eroded by rising prices
that even doubling their present
income will barely permit them
to live suitably, said the brief.
"Equal pay for work of equal
value," was also called for by the
Federation's brief, and this
should be legislated and en-
forced. The vast majority of the
1,300,000 working women in
Ontario are "subsidizing the
economy with their underpaid
labour," the Federation stated.
"Last year women lost close to $1
billion in income discrepancies" -
a staggering figure.
Mr. James Briethaupt, Liberal
Member for Kitchener,
questioned the Minister of
Education on the matter of
pensions for retired teachers. He
asked whether any changes will
be made to the benefits received
by those teachers who retired
some years ago to catch up with
the cost of living.
Mr.Wells, the Minister of
Education replied that for the
past number of months there has
been a committee meeting with
the Ontario Teachers' Federation
working on this problem. They
have come to some conclusions
which are now being studied and
there will be some determination
on them very shortly,
For the past 10 years Liberal
Member for Downsview, Vern
Singer has proposed a Private
Members Bill, Establishment of
the position of Provincial
Ombudsman. Premier Davis
announced this week the
Government's intention to
establish such a position,
Ombudsman for Ontario.
The Premier said that as
society and government increase
in complexity, it became ap-
parent that a number of com-
plaints with regard to ad-
ministrative matters are not
within the ambit of the earlier
legislation.
Therefore, to ensure the rights
of the individual in this area, the
office of Ombudsman will be a
necessary additional tool to the
already extensive programme
for the protection of civil rights
which exist under the law of this
province. As proposed by the
Government, as in all other
parliamentary systems, the
Ombudsman will not have
supervisory power over the
administration of justice.
The principal role of Ontario's
Ombudsman will be to in-
vestigate decisions, recom-
mendations and acts committed
or omitted in the administration
of the work of the Ontario
Government. This he may do
either in response to complaints
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from an individual or
organization, or on his own
initiative.
He will recommend ap-
propriate action to meet each
situation and advise the com-
plainant of the recom-
mendations. He will also be
required to make an annual
report to the Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly.
For Ontario's first Ombud-
sman, the Government is
proposing Mr. Arthur Maloney,
Q.C.
Mr. Davis said that Mr.
Maloney, who was born in
Eganville, Ontario, is from a
family renowned for its con-
tribution to the political life of
Canada and Ontario. His father
was a federal member of
parliament, his brother and
grandfather were both members
of the Ontario Legislature.
From 1957 to 1962 Mr. Maloney
served as a member of the
Parliament of Canada, from the
Toronto-Parkdale riding. He has
been elected five times as a
Bendier of the Law Society of
Upper Canada and is Chairman
of the Society's Profession
Conduct Committee. He is also a
former director of the Harold
King Foundation. He served on
the advisory committee on the
treatment of offenders to the
Provincial Minister of Correc-
tional Services, and was a
member of the Province's Task
Force on policing two years ago.
In recent months, Mr.
Maloney, undertook a review of
police complaint procedures for
the Metropolitan Toronto Police
Commission. The report was
published last week.
Mr. Maloney was a guest in the
Gallery when Premier Davis
made the announcement
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