Québec: economic crisis, but fewer welfare beneficiaries - why?

[lagatta]

A very good article (in French, but not hard to read) from Rue Frontenac, the paper put out (electronically and now also as a print weekly) by locked-out Journal de Montréal workers:

http://ruefrontenac.com/nouvelles-generales/societe/32555-aide-sociale

The agents are demanding more and more documents, making "last-resort aid" very hard to secure, hoping applicants will simply give up the process.