When will our nat'l broadcaster, & in particular, our nat'l news @CBCTheNational start reporting on the human rights crisis ppl w/disabilities are facing in Canada? Why are they part of the systemic discrimination that PWD experience daily? @CBCOmbud@DahliaKurtz@CdnHumanRights
And to clarify, I don't just mean a 30sec - 2min blurb, with a heavily edited interview with a PWD, I mean a FULL investigative report. Last week the CBC gave about 20 minutes on prisoners' rights, not just once, but at least TWO times on one of its most popular shows. A PWD got
less than 4 minutes on a LOCAL CBC station a few months ago. PWD are dying due to cruel provincial govt policies, and the federal govt says it is helpless to do anything because of jurisdictional issues. I have doubts about that, since they signed the @UN_Enable to implement
disability rights INCLUDING financial security, but at this point it really doesn't matter which level of govt responds. PWD need help NOW & they are getting little help from the media to bring this serious human rights matter to light. @CBCOmbud@CdnHumanRights@UN_Enable
- cut a 3% approved increase for ODSP recipients to 1.5%, in 2018 and has refused to increase it since then, despite the alarming rate at which food and rent costs have gone up
- has hired 'experts' for hefty sums to try and cut more money from people with
- developmental disabilities
- has hired a firm (Fedcap) that was fined over $2mil by the US Dept. of Labor for defrauding people with disabilities. This same company forces people with disabilities, most of whom have severe physical disabilities, into labour-intensive jobs like
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
introducing a BI for all who need it. Does the @liberal_party just enjoy wasting as much money as the Conservatives by having a dozen different income support programs with heavy admin costs, and is punitively means tested instead of giving all Canadians enough to live with
dignity, buy nutritious food, not have to worry about not having enough to pay rent? Surely the @liberal_party is not as dumb as the Conservatives, who would sooner throw money out the window, trying to keep people down, instead of improving lives, health and the economy, all
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
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.
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.
A reminder: Canada chose to enter into a legally binding Convention with the United Nations, to protect people with disabilities, both financially & in every other way. The Charter is supposed to protect the life, liberty & security of the person for ALL who reside in Canada.
A person is denied their right to life if they have no ability to earn a living due to disability, & are not provided a livable income to cover their basic needs. Rotten food bank fare does not count towards being able to live. A person is denied their right to liberty, if every