Past campaigns
After many months of engaging in policy advocacy at the federal and provincial levels, and community organizing work with community legal clinics and in coalition with other national and provincial groups, on May 23, 2025,…
SUMMER 2023 CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Great News! On June 22, 2023, the House passed Bill C-22 into law. Your emails and tweets and calls to Senators made a difference! Check out the Updates section of our…
Social assistance recipients can’t wait any longer. In July 2022, ISAC, along with over 250 social service providers and community organizations, called on Premier Ford to double social assistance rates ahead of the August 2022…
In May 2019 ISAC, along with other legal clinics and anti-poverty advocates, discovered that the Ontario government planned to eliminate a benefit that allows some parents on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Program to…
Restricting access to the CCB for some children and families just doesn’t make sense.
In late July 2021, many low-income seniors were surprised to find their GIS benefits for 2021-2022 reduced or eliminated due to their receipt of CERB in 2020, which temporarily raised their incomes and therefore made…
The “Pay the Rent and Feed the Kids” campaign was initiated in Ottawa by the Somerset West Action Network (SWAN) to challenge inadequate social assistance benefits, as a result of the 21.6% cut to basic…
ISAC participated in the Ontario Needs a Raise campaign, which was led by the Ontario Coalition for Social Justice and the Centre for Social Justice, between 2003 and 2007. “Ontario Needs A Raise!” was the…
ISAC’s Hands off! Campaign against the clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS) from families on social assistance ended in June 2007. The implementation of the Ontario Child Benefit (OCB) in July 2008 means…
The Ontario government’s 2012 Budget announced the elimination of the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) from Ontario’s two social assistance programs (Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program) starting in January 2012. ISAC…
In 2014, the provincial government announced it would be eliminating seven different employment benefits available to people on OW and ODSP and replacing it with one new Employment-Related Benefit. A very important benefit that would…
In April of 2014, a backbench member of the Conservative federal government introduced a Private Members Bill, Bill C-585, into the House of Commons. The Bill proposed changing the terms of the Canada Social Transfer,…