I'm not aware that the previous government restricted access to social assistance. Perhaps...no?
Seemingly the additional funding that we are providing will help to resettle the refugees, teach them languages, help them get jobs, and hopefully minimize the need for people to go on social assistance. But anyone who is a Canadian permanent resident does have the right to go on social assistance, and that happens both to refugees and to others. Through our settlement funding, we are hoping to equip the refugees so that they will find jobs and not need to do that.