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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Common Front Looking For Answers On Heat Subsidies

The Common Front for Social Justice wants assurances from Social Development Minister Sue Stultz there will be a programme this winter to help low income people pay for their heat.

The Common Front's Jean Claude Basque tells CHSJ News there are about 100 thousand people in the province living below the poverty line with heating oil increasing in price by over 12 per cent in a year and electricity rates up as well by 16 per cent per kilowatt hour.

Basque says the subsidy should be something like ten per cent higher than it was last year.