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Sep 9, 2021 โ€ข 9 tweets โ€ข 7 min read โ€ข Read on X
FACT CHECK!

This is a heinous lie I continue seeing #LiberalTwitter tell, as some argument about #NDP obstructing the LPC, as an excuse for this election, let's unpack it.

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#DisabilityDebate #Elxn44 #CERB
No, the NDP did not, "vote against the disabled". They initially refused to support the Covid-19 spending bill in June, which contained a $600 payment for disabled Canadians. And for good reason.

The Liberals wanted to fine/jail CERB recipients! (2/9)
Which was pretty unfair, and necessary to stop, because LIBERAL MPs like Wayne Easter and Adam Vaughan who told people to apply for CERB whether they knew they qualified or not! Can we say, entrapment? I'm no lawyer but, unfair to say the least. (3/9)
They didn't agree on June 9th, 2020, globalnews.ca/news/7047067/tโ€ฆ and on June 17th, they agreed. globalnews.ca/news/7074954/cโ€ฆ

That's 8 days!

In that time, NDP got Liberals to call off the dogs and extend CERB from 16 to 24 weeks. (4/9)
During that time, the NDP also supported the Liberal's proposal to deal with the disability benefit in a separate bill, and so did the Bloc. So no, the NDP did NOT "vote against disabled people." (5/9)
And again, we're talking about 8 days.

That left Liberals: July, August, September to get something out to disabled Canadians and they failed to do it, as @MPJulian outlines here. They even prorogued Parliament from August to late SEPT.

7 MONTHS for Liberals to act! (6/9)
And if you really want to know WHO voted against disabled Canadians, look to the Liberals who fast-tracked right-to-die legislation while voting with the Conservatives against a livable income for disabled Canadians or improving home/palliative care! (7/9)

#GLBI #BillC7
Not to mention, maintaining 2-tiers of health care, by siding with Conservatives against removing profit from long-term-care homes where so many people died of Covid-19 and from neglect in badly run, for-profit homes.

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#LTCJustice #LTC
PS, Justin Trudeau said Parliament had worked and was working on May 25, 2021... so Liberals need to find a new excuse other than obstruction when everything Liberals tabled passed, for why we're having this unnecessary election. (9/9) #Elxn44

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The low wages and rollback of labour rights for the worker under neoliberalism are connected to the low rates and degradation of those on benefits. The insufficiency of benefit programs, feeds a ready supply of labour to low wage paying employers. Trapping the working class

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