The Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group has published a report, The Rise and Fall of Welfare Time Limits in BC (in PDF), which offers an inside look at what was going on within the Ministry of Human Resources after the BC government passed legislation that gave welfare recipients a two year time limit for benefits. The authors have drawn on documents acquired through a Freedom of Information request to show that while many anti-poverty advocates, community groups and activists were fighting the welfare time limits, many people in the ministry were also opposed to the limits, though for different reasons. Read more in an article in the Times Colonist, "Stopping the Clock: A Time Limit on Welfare" (in PDF) and in an article in the Tyee, "Why Welfare Time Limits Never Flew".