This is another great #MAID read

"What the government would not do is slow down a program that offers suicide-prevention services to most people but assisted suicide and euthanasia only to the disabled, terminally ill or not."

Thanks @AlexanderRaikin nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/…
"after 🇨🇦’s legalization, the number increased tenfold in 6 years – it will be impossible for any similar 🇨🇦 watchdog to warn about 🇨🇦. That is because no such watchdogs exist: Unlike in the Netherlands or Belgium, 🇨🇦 has no mandated review process for potential stories of abuse"
Lametti's jarring notes on answering the *unasked* Q: "Does this Bill put the lives of persons with disabilities at risk as advocates claim?”

"The government would address “stigma and bias”; it would bring about “a culture change to ensure that the important contributions –
– made to Canada by persons with disabilities are recognized and valued on the [same] basis as those of other Canadians.”"

& Those who Lametti considers *does not* make a "contributions to Canada?" Due to being unable to work?

He leaves by the wayside. Even in his notes.

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Feb 24
The government of Canada loves to lie when they advertise death to disabled people. #MAID

Advertising MAID publically when it is known to be both discriminatory & coercive sets off alarms, but the omissions in it need to be called out.

When listing criteria, they mention –

1/
the main issues that they themselves ignore.

"Intolerable suffering": Is it the disability itself, or the place the system forced them into because of their disability? Doesn't matter! All they have to be is disabled, and intolerably suffering because they have a disability.

2/
"Treatment opinions that are available to them": there are no treatment options available to those in legislated poverty who can't afford it, or for those waiting indefinitely on waiting lists. No options are available for the most vulnerable right now; period.

Besides death.
3/
Read 6 tweets
Feb 22
the ODSP to MAID pipeline

People who are not both disabled and in legislated poverty currently need to listen instead of speaking over others on this topic. People really don't even know what is going on unless they are personally in this situation, as others simply don't care.
People speak on this who aren't in this category because:

1) internalized ableism for their own future ("I'd rather die than -")

2) their loved one used MAID without the coercion there. (E.g: they had the means to take care of themselves otherwise - so it was a true choice)
In both cases, the people speaking don't understand the current amendments, and the pressure they put on disabled people of a certain class currently.

Not in the future. Now.

This is of course about Canada's MAID after it was amended via Bill C7 in 2021.

some information:
Read 25 tweets
Apr 8, 2022
"Nobody gets left behind."

The. Liberals. Left. Disability. Funding. Out. Of. The. Entire. Budget.

#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #DisabilityTwitter #Budget2022
I've said this a thousand times but I need to state it again after #Budget2022 was officially revealed.

The lack of the #CanadianDisabilityBenefit being on the budget not only breaks promises (Liberals promised to make the CDB, NDP promised to lift disabled folks from poverty) –
It shows that the coercive amendments to MAID in which the Liberals led the rushing through of are meant to be there. It shows that the government is willfully offering disabled people only two choices: forced poverty, or death.

It shows 🇨🇦 is attempting to thrive with eugenics.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 8, 2022
"Housing that is affordable for everyone" eh?

I'm Chrystia's constituent (Uni-Rosedale)

My income on ODSP is $1169 per month for *all costs*

The shelter portion is only *$497*

Can you help find me affordable housing for $497 per month?

#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #Budget2022
The #CanadianDisabilityBenefit was not in #Budget2022,

It was in the campaigns, the throne speech, the mandate letter – but not the budget.

Perpetual studies still to come stalling the creation of the benefit, that's where Canada is at.
Provinces have already dropped their responsibilities re: disability supports admittedly waiting on the CDB which the Liberals made a big deal out of.

Disabled folks in legislated poverty now have no chance to be lifted from poverty for the next year. Provincially or Federally.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 6, 2022
Poll:
Will the Canadian Disability Benefit receive it's funding in the Liberal Federal Budget 2022 presented tomorrow by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland?

#CanadianDisabilityBenefit #cdnpoli #Liberals #WhereIsTheCanadianDisabilityBenefit #Trudeau #Freeland #Disability #Canada
The answers to this poll are important to me.

As a disabled person, Since '21 I've had the "option" of using MAID due to the C7 amendments rushed through removing the safeguards surrounding it. (Even before the mental illness option for MAID opens in '23) I wasn't able to prior.
By keeping me trapped in legislated poverty, the government is keeping my quality of life poor. I can't afford basic necessities life therapy, rent or medicine. The gov is actively pushing me toward MAID by keeping my quality of life poor with the only other "option" is MAID.
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Dec 31, 2021
You ready?

Tie between Justin Trudeau & Carla Qualtrough:

- For rushing through BillC7 (the amendments removing safeguards to MAiD) earlier this year despite disabled voices/groups saying no

- For not helping disabled people through the pandemic as they did the working class
- For dangling benefits over disabled people during the election, then not following through

- for acknowledging that disabled people live in forced poverty numerous times, but not doing anything about it

- for playing jurisdiction ping pong with Premiers they know won't help
I'll never forget Qualtrough's grin on her face when MAiD was brought up in the Disability debate this year.

I'll never forget how Trudeau insisted on rushing through C7 without any plans in action to improve disabled lives by relieving forced poverty first...during a pandemic.
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