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Jagrup Brar Surrey/Fleetwood Mla, Goes on Welfare For  31 days he will live  on  $610.00 /mth,  to  show  a  broken system    

 
 

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B.C. NDP MLA Jagrup Brar will temporarily give up his home and salary and live on $610 welfare for

one month after accepting a challenge from campaign group Raise the Rates.

The Surrey Fleetwood MLA, who earned a monthly average of $10,546 in the last fiscal year, has agreed to spend January living on the income support and shelter allowance for a single person expected to look for work in British Columbia.

“I want to experience first-hand what life is like being on welfare or in poverty,” Brar said, speaking at the Surrey Urban Mission on Monday.

Raise the Rates, a coalition of B.C groups that want governments to reduce poverty, issued the challenge to all B.C. MLAs in May last year, hoping to increase welfare and raise the minimum wage in British Columbia.

“Obviously, if you have a families-first agenda, the first priority should be people on welfare,” coalition spokeswoman Jean Swanson said, issuing the challenge.

Welfare rates in B.C. were last increased in 2007. Equivalent rates total $599 in Ontario, $583 in Alberta and $913 in Saskatchewan.