Thread by @The280Times

Dear @coteau, @MPPCoteau (also @PamDamoff, @EmmanuelDubourg & @SophieChatel1)

So, been a while Michael.
You got a promotion.
Nice !

I've sorta also, I'm now a level 3 pain in the ass. :)
Yet no matter how things change, they stay the same as well.

I need (all) your help.. 1/9

When last we spoke Face to.. public awareness commercial.. I was engaging you weekly for 10 weeks during the OLP Take the Mic sessions. Virtually every week, I would engage each week's topic with an alternate perspective and how it wraps into either ODSP or the Disabled pop. 2/9

I stressed, week after week just how critical it would be that IF the OLP were to be elected in June 2022 to raise ODSP to a livable level. I valued our engagements, I valued the back and forth and I valued the humor over my first Microphone (yikes).

I hope today that you.. 3/9

and your fellow MP's can become the advocates.
because now I don't need your ear over "Just" ODSP.

Now, it's the lives of every single person on ODSP, CPPD, AISH, SAID and all the other aspects of a broken system which do NOT provide enough support to Disabled Canadians. 4/9

We need the 4 of you to elevate the voice of the Disabled Community to your fellow MP's, to the PM and Dep. Prime Minister and inform them of just how grave the situation really is. As the former head of ODSP, even 3 & 1/2 years ago you know how bad it was.. (5/9)

4 years later you know how worse it's gotten between the Pandemic, Ford & Inflation.

You know personally that this is not sustainable.
You know personally, that a large portion of the community will simply not survive a 3 year study with no action taken in the meanwhile 6/9

You know that the failure to take action, is an action supportive of the end result of stagnation.

You are uniquely qualified to provide clarity to the other MP's Tagged today.. to the afore mentioned PM & DPM and to your counter parts sitting in Blue & Orange seats. 7/9

You have the chance today to make a difference which will be felt by up to 1/4 of the population. You have the chance to halve homelessness in one fell swoop by "fast tracking" The Canada Disability Benefit.

That benefit is the ONE chance these people have to survive. 8/9

As former head of ODSP, you know my words are true & factual. It's not over hyped drama.. It is the real, uncensored factual situation which countless disabled citizens find themselves in.

Bring the change to ALL of Canada that you didn't have the chance to for Ontario. 9/9 (ty)