Do you realize @fordnation that you have a legal obligation to ensure #ODSP is at a livable level that does not harm the community ?
@CityCynthia made you aware of the harm being done to recipients in Sept '20. Your 5% promise, shows acknowledgement but a lack of fulfilment. 1/
215 (1)(c) (i)(ii) (2) (1)(b)
Every one is under a legal duty to provide necessaries of life to a person under his charge if that person is unable, by reason of; illness, mental disorder is unable to provide himself with necessaries of life. 2/
with respect to a duty imposed by paragraph (1)(c), the failure to perform the duty endangers the life of the person to whom the duty is owed or causes or is likely to cause the health of that person to be injured permanently. 3/ -
You know the rates are literally, criminally too low.
You know, the 5% will do nothing of substance to correct the danger they (people on ODSP) are in due to the rates which you have final say on.
Do better. WAY better..
(who ever handles his account, read this to him) 4/4
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Right now your tied for 4th best platform for #ODSP.
LONG term, Ford's is actually better.
because while you've got those two 10's..
you're gonna chase it forever with 2% ?
Ford's is horrible at 5% but it can never get worse with inflation indexing, yours can @StevenDelDuca 2/
if we have 5 straight years of 5% inflation, the PC plan puts people on ODSP at $1566 (which still is literally criminally low. 2027 and $1566 ? Jesus Christ)
Your plan with two 10% bumps chased by 2% raises after puts ODSP at just $1501 in 2027. @MitzieHunter@jillpromoli 3/
The NDP plan to raise it by just $200 a month until 2023
The OLP plan to raise it by just $116 a month, until 2023
The PC's, Say they'll raise it by $58 a month and then inflation only raises 1/
That same single person on ODSP bringing in $1169 today is at least $1000 short of reaching the poverty line EACH month. $1000 in the hole.
It's like everything you buy, costs double.
Could you afford your home if your rent / mortgage increased 100% ? and your food, phone ? 2/
laundry, bus tickets, cleaning supplies, toilet paper..
Potato chips.
I bought Potato chips today and they cost $4.00 for a medium sized bag. For someone on ODSP, that would be like $8 because their income is SO low.
3/
Why does it matter to me so damn much if you #BudgetForTheBenefit of Disabled Canadians ? 1/
It matters to me that we #BudgetForTheBenefit because I am a man of my word. It matters to me when I make a promise and I believe the country which I live in, should hold true to that same value.
If we won't keep our word to our own,
what good is our word to the world ? 2/
It matters to me that we #BudgetForTheBenefit because I see @kellyfairchild2 and the pain she has gone through with the tragic loss of her beloved pet. (sorry for your loss dear) I see her having to ask strangers on the internet for help as do so many others 3/
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).
This past Friday was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It is now the second which has come and gone with no tangible movement towards the promised "#CanadaDisabilityBenefit" while at the same time 1/9
It' the second year in a row that another Party has attempted to pass a Federal #Disability Benefit in which your party has rejected. If you want a short statement about my thoughts then it's simple.. "Shit or get off the pot".
If you want something more eloquent, read on.. 2/9
Now I don't know just how many Disabled people there are who depends on #CPPD, #ODSP, #AISH, #SAID, and all the others without cute 4 letter short forms but I can tell you combined they account for roughly 50% of the homeless..
(at least in Ont..) and the homelessness issue 3/9
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