MP Cheryl Gallant says many of the families who should qualify for the federal government’s atomic workers program are receiving rejection letters instead.
Gallant made the claim in a recent edition of her “Gallant Night News” posted on her Facebook page last Friday.
The federal government announced last March that it had agreed to make one-time payments of $28,500 to former AECL workers who helped clean up accidents at the Chalk River labs in the 1950s.
Where the worker was already deceased, the government said “consideration will be given” to providing the payment to “the worker’s estate or to its primary beneficiary or primary beneficiaries.”
Gallant said the program was implemented last year by an “order in council” of the federal cabinet.
“Millions of dollars must have been spent on advertising,” she said.
“There were full page ads in the Eganville Leader, the North Renfrew Times (*) and the Pembroke Observer.”
But Gallant says that “recently, many of these families have been receiving rejection letters.”
“In recognition of the pain and suffering (they felt) as children, children who may have lost years with a father who died early of cancer, they would be sent a certificate,” Gallant said.
“Fake compassion from a fake government running fake ads”…
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