Court rules sponsors not automatically accountable for family members’ social assistance debt

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Published: November 30, 2009

Earlier this month, the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered governments to stop automatically charging individuals, who have sponsored relatives to come to Canada as permanent residents, for social assistance debt sustained by those relatives.

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