Welfare And Workfare
BC’s welfare system discourages British Columbians from working. The welfare system should focus on providing education and work experience to create self-sufficient British Columbians who can appreciate their self worth.
- Make weekly educational programs a requirement for anyone receiving welfare payments.
- Create a Workfare program to ensure people who are able to work are required to do some work to receive welfare payments.
- Provide necessary support, like transit passes, childcare, and housing for recipients who work.
- Provide relevant educational opportunities for people on welfare in order to ensure they have the necessary skills to become self-sufficient.
- Hire unemployed single parents, currently receiving welfare, to provide childcare before and after school in order to allow other single parents the opportunity to work.
- Make educational classes about raising children a requirement for pregnant mothers on welfare.
We want to change the way things are done in BC politics while keeping the same basic political structure.
We believe politics should be more inclusive and accessible to the people and we have the platform to make that happen.
We think the best way to make change is from within the system, but with a new group of people dedicated to changing the way things are done.