Thread by @The280Times

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

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

and eventually, they just stop being.
either directly due to the lack of ability to simply pay for their living expenses, because their existing medical conditions worsen to the compound traumas of poverty, or because they commit self extinction 4/16

either by the means in which this government has now made easier for them to attain, or they do it themselves.

This is a humanitarian crisis which is taking place within our own boarders to our own people and it is happening on an on going basis without any sign of change. 5/16

The latest communication that the #Disabled Community is aware of is that Federal Government wishes to run a three year study prior to deploying the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit.

That is simply 3 more years of cruel, needless suffering and death by those who's only crime.. 6/16

is surviving a medical trauma or condition from birth.

Our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is violated every single day these citizens are told to wait for a three year study.

The CRPD which this country signed (Twice) in good faith,
is being violated monthly.. 7/16

with each and every cheque from a Canadian Government which provides Below poverty support.

We are better then this.
These are your brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, these could be your children..
Forced to endure unimaginable hardship because.. 8/16

They have a #Disability.

That's it.
they have a #Disability which prevents them from working or working enough to be able to sustain themselves.

And because of that, these people are forced to cope with conditions which makes prison actually seem like an improvement. 9/16

In Prison, you get three meals a day..
You get medical treatment.
maybe even dental (don't know, never been)

A disabled person in "Social Assistance"'s next meal is not assured. it could be one meal a day.. it could be a meal once every several days.

We have the means 10/16

To end all or most of this needless, cruel, prejudicial, discriminatory suffering Next Week, if this country so chose to.

This was proven with CERB.
It took 3 weeks to deploy CERB, but you need #ThreeMoreYears for a #CanadaDisabilityBenefit ?
does this make sense to you ? 11/16

You have the entire resources of the entire history of the Canadian Government at your disposal.
You have statistical information spanning every community coast to coast for Decades..

You have advocates at your doors, telling you what they need but you need more time ? 12/16

Does this make any sense to you ?
There is no way that it can, because you are smarter than that. So I ask you to please use that intelligence, mix it with some compassion and help bring the change that this country and its citizens need.
13/16

Speeding up action on the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit will help the entirety of Canada, not just those who need the benefit.

Once deployed, every person who receives it will obviously start spending it creating an burst of new economic activity. 14/16

It will help small businesses bottom lines when up to 20% of the population all of a sudden can start buying more than Mr.Noodles and a loaf of bread.

This, will lower the burden on our health care system
This will lower the burden on our law enforcement system 15/16

That will lower the burden on the justice system.

It is a no lose scenario to speed up this action.
but it is a mass loss of life event if you don't.
"Simple" inaction will cause life altering or life ending harm.

Thank you for your time and any effort you may put forth. 16/16