StarEditorial: If the province can't reach its target for the Ontario Autism Program, then it ought to come clean and admit it, rather than offering hollow assurances.
That refusal came after an update in August, which revealed that the numbers were not good. While the Progressive Conservatives had originally promised to enroll 8,000 children in core therapies by the end of this fall, the August update reported that they've reached little more than one tenth of their target — just 888.
It is true that many families haven’t responded to invitations, and it’s important that they do so. By mid-August, fewer than 1,700 families had registered with AccessOAP, even though the government had sent out 6,300 invitations. When the Conservatives took over in 2018, they replaced the needs-based program with an income-tested one that would provide less funding for high-income families.
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