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7 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Dear @JoelHardenONDP

I'm not sure if you were in Queen's Park today, but can you ask Todd Smith if he's lying? He said that the govt continues to pay out 'discretionary' money to ODSP clients. Why have people like my friend not been informed of this? @CityCynthia
My friend is severely disabled and definitely could have used even an extra $100 a month in order to not starve to death, especially during this time. She can't get to a food bank b/c she has mobility issues, can't afford transit, is immuno compromised, and even if she could go,
I'm not able to drive her, because food is available by appointment only and I can't just leave work every time my friend needs food.

Mr. Harden, this is pure discrimination and neglect. Why does no one seem to know about this extra money? Why will no one sue this govt for
S. 7 Charter violations and for breach of the UN CRPD Article 28? This government is OBLIGATED to provide PWD with an ADEQUATE standard of living. Every PWD who has gone to a lawyer has been turned away because even lawyers discriminate against PWD.

un.org/development/de…
Someone with some authority is going to need to raise this as a human rights, Charter and UN CRPD violation, because no one is willing to force this government to comply with basic human rights provisions.

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7 Oct
Why's the @liberal_party stalling on this? It's been part of their party's platform since about 2015.

Canada needs a basic income for ALL who need it. PWD helped build this country too.

It's utter stupidity that they're creating even more patchwork systems instead of
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This is a much more meaningful investment, @JustinTrudeau than the investments you have made to charities, and especially to food banks. My friend, who did not suffer from mental illness prior to being driven into deep poverty due to a debilitating physical illness, was informed
by her doctor that she is displaying all the symptoms of PTSD, and she directly attributes this new disabling illness to the fact my friend has been traumatised by trying to figure out how to live on $1,169 a month, after having to spend all her retirement savings, give up
assets that she worked so hard to acquire over her career, and then be treated like a dog by all levels of government, because she has a choice to either starve to death (which she's actually choosing to do) or further traumatise herself by begging for 3 days worth of scraps at a
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6 Oct
MP @JulieDzerowicz spoke with pride today that her govt tossed hundreds of millions of dollars to food banks and other charities, rather than give that money directly to people in need, including people with disabilities who have a great difficulty accessing food banks in normal
times let alone in a pandemic. It is clear that MP Dzerowicz has never been in a food bank as a client, where it would be hard to believe they had received over $100 million. She may wish to visit the countless pieces of photographic evidence that food banks offer up rotten,
mouldy and expired food to people who don't dare complain, lest they get even that food high-handedly snatched away from them, because many food bank workers love the thrill of having power over those in need.
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6 Oct
If Ms. @DahliaKurtz can't get an answer directly from PWD oppressors, perhaps she could contact the @UN_Enable @CdnHumanRights @OntHumanRights to see if they can investigate why both Canada & Ontario are in very serious violation of PWD's Charter S. 7, & UN CRPD Art. 28 rights.
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