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🧵The #CanadaDisabilityBenefit could be a game-changer.
We sent a survey asking people with disabilities from the Leadnow community to share their stories in their own words. If this issue is not a reality for you, please read their stories. #BillC22 must be passed! #cdnpoli👇
We sent a survey asking people with disabilities from the Leadnow community to share their stories in their own words. If this issue is not a reality for you, please read their stories. #BillC22 must be passed! #cdnpoli👇
It may be another year without the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit. Bill C-22 has been dragging its way through the senate, and disability advocates worry that it may be delayed again for another year. #BillC22 #cdnpoli
#BillC22 has been almost 3 years in the making, and people living with disabilities in Canada are still having to live without financial support to meet their basic needs. #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #cdnpoli
#CanadaDisabilityBenefit #C22 #CDBby23 - #ODSP #AISH #CPPD
1st Session of Senate Committee studying if they'll be suggesting amendments - March 22 2023
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1st Session of Senate Committee studying if they'll be suggesting amendments - March 22 2023
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Feed begins with it's about to begin message at 4:03pm
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Sen Omidvar starts by welcoming everyone and invites other committee Senators to introduce themselves.
(i'm not going to recap them announcing themselves)
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(i'm not going to recap them announcing themselves)
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"Make Canada Work for People Who've Done the Work" @PierrePoilievre who voted against #CERB shares a press release amending the budget that reflects zero compassion for low income earners and the #disabled
A re-elected Liberal government will:
Continue to ensure that secondary earners—mostly women—can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing the #CanadaWorkersBenefit, so that families can receive up to $2,400.
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Continue to ensure that secondary earners—mostly women—can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing the #CanadaWorkersBenefit, so that families can receive up to $2,400.
canada.ca/en/revenue-age…
1/2 You can read abut the Liberal Party Policies for disabled people at liberal.ca/our-platform/d… #CanadaDisabilityBenefitAct was unanimously adopted Febeuary 2, 2023 as a federal income supplement for working-age persons with disabilities.
That's a wrap for #C22 study at #HUMA. It is now up to the government to get the bill passed before Friday. It's doable. If it does, the bill will go to the Senate and go through the motions of being studied.
A few observations:
1. The study has been carried pretty quickly and in a very collaborative manner. We've seen plenty of amendments from opposition parties that were carried. It's a great sign for the later study in Senate.
1. The study has been carried pretty quickly and in a very collaborative manner. We've seen plenty of amendments from opposition parties that were carried. It's a great sign for the later study in Senate.
2. We have a much better bill than what we started with. There have been significant improvements. It's important, because it will actually force the government to do some things that would have otherwise been left to its goodwill.
It's #HUMA Time !
"Line by line, Clause by Clause Part II"
December 13th 2022
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(may lag at points in my live tweeting, but I'll be back) (#CanadaDisabilityBenefit) 1/
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"Line by line, Clause by Clause Part II"
December 13th 2022
Scheduled to start in 3 minutes from time of tweet send. Watch here: parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow…
(may lag at points in my live tweeting, but I'll be back) (#CanadaDisabilityBenefit) 1/
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Two legislative / Legal clerks are expected, I'll refer to them in simple or generalized terms for the purposes of speed.
Krista Wilcox & Mausumi Banerjee are scheduled to appear as technical (gov) witnesses / aids much like how Alexis Conrad & Ms Wilcox did last meet. 3/
Krista Wilcox & Mausumi Banerjee are scheduled to appear as technical (gov) witnesses / aids much like how Alexis Conrad & Ms Wilcox did last meet. 3/
This was a national group effort in response to yesterday's HUMA committee meeting on Bill C-22
#DERB #CDBby23 #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #canpoli #canada #candis #PWDAllies #MAiD
#DERB #CDBby23 #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #canpoli #canada #candis #PWDAllies #MAiD
1. PRESS RELEASE
ADVOCACY GROUP SHOCKED BY LACK OF PREPARATION BEFORE FIRST FEDERAL DISABILITY BENEFIT MEETING
Even committee members question the amount of time and round table studies that produced hardly any data for Bill C-22
ADVOCACY GROUP SHOCKED BY LACK OF PREPARATION BEFORE FIRST FEDERAL DISABILITY BENEFIT MEETING
Even committee members question the amount of time and round table studies that produced hardly any data for Bill C-22
2. [Parliament, Ottawa,] — There were twelve people from across Canada all on mute taking in yesterday’s first meeting of Bill C-22’s HUMA Committee. The disappointment was palpable as we were let down again by a lack of preparation on behalf of the legislation’s author and team.
Gray is calling out the amount of talking they did with no substance, she wants a timeline but he blames parliamentary timeline for holding up his timeline, best estimate is a year?
Bynen asks about episodic disabilities like arthritis and MS etc, response is we need to look at the diversity of it, eligibility and criteria, some benefits 3 months up to permanent. income tested.
I swear, with every bit of news I read, I realized more and more that #canada is in the midst of a crisis, and possibly at the twilight of its life.
we have our nations largest cities victimizing and gaslighting its most vulnerable (homeless) people. People who have often done nothing wrong, who are just victims of the inflation spiraling out of control.
These same cities doing nothing to address the cost of housing as developers concentrate on high end condos, which are bought up by speculators and left empty.
#OntarioElection2022 #OntarioVotes 🧵
ODSP max today for a single person is $1169
The NDP plan to raise it by just $200 a month until 2023
The OLP plan to raise it by just $116 a month, until 2023
The PC's, Say they'll raise it by $58 a month and then inflation only raises 1/
ODSP max today for a single person is $1169
The NDP plan to raise it by just $200 a month until 2023
The OLP plan to raise it by just $116 a month, until 2023
The PC's, Say they'll raise it by $58 a month and then inflation only raises 1/
That same single person on ODSP bringing in $1169 today is at least $1000 short of reaching the poverty line EACH month. $1000 in the hole.
It's like everything you buy, costs double.
Could you afford your home if your rent / mortgage increased 100% ? and your food, phone ? 2/
It's like everything you buy, costs double.
Could you afford your home if your rent / mortgage increased 100% ? and your food, phone ? 2/
laundry, bus tickets, cleaning supplies, toilet paper..
Potato chips.
I bought Potato chips today and they cost $4.00 for a medium sized bag. For someone on ODSP, that would be like $8 because their income is SO low.
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Potato chips.
I bought Potato chips today and they cost $4.00 for a medium sized bag. For someone on ODSP, that would be like $8 because their income is SO low.
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Dear @jwaldag, @Shafqat_Ali_1, @AryaCanada & @JaimeBattiste
This past Friday was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It is now the second which has come and gone with no tangible movement towards the promised "#CanadaDisabilityBenefit" while at the same time 1/9
This past Friday was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It is now the second which has come and gone with no tangible movement towards the promised "#CanadaDisabilityBenefit" while at the same time 1/9
It' the second year in a row that another Party has attempted to pass a Federal #Disability Benefit in which your party has rejected. If you want a short statement about my thoughts then it's simple.. "Shit or get off the pot".
If you want something more eloquent, read on.. 2/9
If you want something more eloquent, read on.. 2/9
Dear @Chris_Bittle @taylorbachrach @RichardBragdon @ValBradford_ I write the four of you who span party lines, all elected representatives of our government to support and petition you to advocate For the prioritization of the Canada #Disability Benefit. I urge you to do so 1/16
with in your own parties, in public and to your fellow mp's across the room and sitting beside you in chambers.
This is an urgent issue which affects potentially Millions of Canadian Citizens who have been left behind and forgotten not just since the start of the pandemic 2/16
This is an urgent issue which affects potentially Millions of Canadian Citizens who have been left behind and forgotten not just since the start of the pandemic 2/16
But for decades before by both Federal Governments and their Provincial Governments (where applicable).
Everyday in this country, 1000's of good, genuine, kind people are forced to starve, beg for help, lose their living places, go to the streets, end up in encampments 3/16
Everyday in this country, 1000's of good, genuine, kind people are forced to starve, beg for help, lose their living places, go to the streets, end up in encampments 3/16
