ODSP Action Coalition – MPP Lobby Kit

The ODSP Action Coalition has created a lobby kit for advocates to use in meetings with their MPPs on the Social Assistance Review.

The Coalition is a provincial group advocating for people with disabilities on ODSP and considers the Social Assistance Review the most important opportunity in decades to improve ODSP so that people with disabilities can live with dignity. Unfortunately, the Coalition is increasingly worried that any restructuring that comes out of the review will be more about reducing the costs of ODSP than improving the lives of people with disabilities.

This Lobby Kit lays out the Coalition’s key messages to MPPs and also provides helpful lobbying tips and templates.

Download the full 18-page lobby kit:

• Coalition Lobby Kit – Word version
  
• Coalition Lobby Kit – PDF version

The Coalition has also created the following additional background materials for advocates to give to MPPs or distribute in their communities.

These materials can also be helpful when preparing for meetings with MPPs.

• Social Assistance Rates and Adequacy Backgrounder
  
• Key Messages Backgrounder
• Coalition’s Response to the Commission’s Options Paper (second discussion paper)
  
• Positive or Punitive?
• Coalition’s Responses to the Commission’s First Discussion Paper
• Dignity, Adequacy, Inclusion: Summary or Full Submission
• An Activation Agenda for ODSP: Summary or Full Submission