"Wage Protection Program' terminated in late 1990's

According to a post published at Doorey's Workplace Law Blog in Ontario, the N.D.P. government of Bob Rae had a “Wage Protection Program” in which the government paid out outstanding employee entitlements up to a specified amount and did so quickly. Then the state would try to get some of the money back from the bankrupt. That system made good sense, but not to the Mike Harris government, who believed fundamentally that it was not the state’s job to protect workers. They terminated the plan in the late 1990s. '