The president of the Sarnia Legion says a new provincial measure, aimed at helping non-profits, will only save them about $200 a year.
The Doug Ford government said Workplace Safety and Insurance Board rates will be frozen for five years for non-profits.
While the province has said some Ontario legions were facing 300 per cent increases, local Legion President Lynn Weiss Mathieson said the news is pretty insignificant in Sarnia.
"We usually don't have a lot of claims through WSIB. The staff is pretty good at doing what they do, and I really don't believe we've ever had a WSIB claim, so it's certainly not going to save us a lot of money -- maybe $200, $240 a year," she said. "We have a small employee base, so I don't know where [the government is] getting these great big wonderful savings from."
Mathieson said the Legion's rates are going to go from 79 cents per $100 down to 49 cents, which she said should save them roughly $65 every three months.
The provincial Conservatives say without a freeze, nearly 2,700 non-profits including daycares, legions, charities, women's shelters and others would have faced increases in their workplace safety insurance premiums.
