The programs that are effective are the ones that help with the transition. I was especially interested in listening to Mark talk about giving someone a paycheque, but as someone transitions from those few hours a week and gets more into the full-time labour market, we have to remember that full-time minimum wage, at least in the Province of Ontario, is about $20,000. A program like the Canada Pension Plan disability will cut you completely off benefits at about one-third of that minimum wage, so there's a perfect example of a program that doesn't really work in the way that it should to help people get back into the labour force.
On November 24th, 2016. See this statement in context.