John Stapleton worked for the Ontario Government in the Ministry　of　Community and Social Services and its predecessors for 28 years in the areas of social assistance policy and operations. During his career John was the senior policy advisor to the Social Assistance Review Committee and the Minister's Advisory Group on New Legislation. His more recent government work concerned the implementation of the National Child Benefit.

After leaving government in late 2002, John became Community Undertaking Social Policy Fellow at St Christopher House in Toronto in association with Massey College at the University of Toronto. John freelances as a social policy consultant with governments while continuing to work with other diverse interests as the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, Human Resources and Social Development Canada, and the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

He is a Commissioner with the Ontario Soldiers' Aid Commission.

John is a volunteer with St. Christopher House and Woodgreen Community Services of Toronto

John was most recently Research Director for the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults in Toronto and was the co-chair of the working group associated with this project.

He completed an analysis of the legal aid needs test in Ontario and is currently undertaking an Innovations Fellowship with the Metcalf Foundation on the disincentives faced by multiply-subsidized adults in the Toronto area. He teaches a course on public policy at Schulich School of Business. He is a member of 25 in 5.

John maintains an active interest in the history of social assistance in Ontario.

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