OMG. Federal government to reintroduce fed disability benefit bill at end of June (announcement live on Facebook) 🙌🏻❤️🙏🌞 ow.ly/RFVZ50JiAq9
Brief summary of the Minister's @CQualtro 's comments on the CDB in this back and forth with @BonitaZarrillo yesterday: 1. framework for this bill is the same as the one tabled last year 2. timing is ASAP but there are still many things to be worked out
including negotiations ensuring there will be no provincial clawbacks. 3. Consultations w the disabled community are ongoing.
4. Eligibility is being worked on b/c there is no federal list of PWD. Using provincial lists or the DTC list are both being considered. #doubleODSPNow
These are the scenes that break my heart. Yesterday this knapsack, full of life's essentials, was left under this tree. Today, no one has claimed it, it has been gone through through and half of it dumped out. What happened to this person? Where are they? 💔 #toronto
I worry so much about ppl making the transition from housing to homelessness. esp #pwd. it is one of the biggest shocks and most difficult things anyone will endure in life. there's no manual "so, now you're homeless!" there is little to no support.
you're making a difficult adjustment in every way but most importantly psychologically. community is most important at this time but when do you go? especially with the embarrassment and shame and sense of failure that can accompany. our egos can be cruellest at these moments.
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holy shit. somebody noticed. 👀👀👀
did i mention how ridiculous it is that there are "sides"
Absolutely overwhelmed by requests for assistance atm. MAiD is changing the equation for so many. There are so many people in despair it feels like we are going to witness something truly horrific unfold if nothing is done. The federal government MUST pay attention.
Disabled ppl are the biggest minority group in this country. We are staring at *voluntary* eugenics. We are staring at mass voluntary death of disabled ppl around this country because they are unable to live. It is URGENT that @CQualtro@JustinTrudeau hold a summit
What YOU need to do is support this MOST IMPORTANT INITIATIVE in the country demanding that benefits double. the most vulnerable population in #canada is under siege by covid and poverty and NOW when ppl need us most ... we must act. How?
1. Reach the public on social. Just post this every day. Cut + paste:
@GGCanada disabled people across Canada are living on $1000/mo when the poverty line is $2000. Provinces have frozen rates + pwd are choosing MAiD. #raisetherates to double @JustinTrudeau@cafreeland
i'd like you to think for a moment about what it must be like to be 100% financially dependent on a system that is attempting to cut every imaginable cost associated with your staying alive. First of all, you are expected to survive on $1169 a month in Ontario. Which
means every single person who has ever even thought about this is experiencing cognitive dissonance. Any rational person knows that is impossible. But we gloss over it - oh, there must be more somewhere. There isn't. And the benefits shrink continuously and without
warning. So there you are with your $1169, ($850 of which just went to an noisy, infested non accessible unit with faulty heating in the basement that no one shovels the steps to all winter, so now it's $319) and you have four prescriptions to pick up to get you through the