Please #RatifyC22 the way in which #SOCI provided it and close the book on this chapter.
The insurance industry will NOT challenge the amendment, they didn't when it was used in the other case in the last 27 years. 1/
Even if they did for some reason think they could win and did decide to challenge it, the amendment is constitutional. It does not encroach on provincial jurisdiction because this IS a federal benefit.
The federal government has the equal right to provide a supplement 2/
The Amendment, ONLY affects the treatment of the Federal Benefit (C-22) and does not encroach on their ability to gouge people from all the other ways they already do.
Furthermore, we signed all parts of the CRPD.
The CRPD clearly states that a federal body signing on 3/
signs with full authority of the nation and that any laws, rules or regulations which conflict with the articles of the CRPD, are to be changed & eliminated. Striking the amendment, would be a violation of our obligations to follow the #CRPD. urgent @SR_Disability@LavJacobs 4/4
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Sen Omidvar starts by welcoming everyone and invites other committee Senators to introduce themselves.
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If you don't set a minimum standard of what the Canada Disability Benefit should provide, you ARE setting a maximum.
See, if it goes forward based on the way that Minister Qualtrough has been saying.. modeled on the GIS / OAS and to a specific dollar number that means.. 2/
That even if a province like say.. Ontario, decides "you know what.. they're right.. this isn't enough" and they themselves decide to raise their ODSP, the CDB would go down in that province.
It's #HUMA Time !
"Line by line, Clause by Clause Part II"
December 13th 2022
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(may lag at points in my live tweeting, but I'll be back) (#CanadaDisabilityBenefit) 1/
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I like Boston Pizza @bostonpizza. It's a welcoming place for people to go watch two adults beat each other up for money on a Saturday night while I eat my fries & wings and if I get drunk and fall asleep in the bushes outback, when I wake up I get a free live show at noon 1/
with my coffee as I wait for my wife & kid to pick me up.
Then, I get much better questions from my family when they do. Instead of "Dad, why do you have twigs in your hair ?" When I crash in the bushes of some other bar.. 2/
If it's been a BP night my kid can ask "Dad.. why do all those people yelling outside, wanna have sex with Justin Trudeau ? and why are they screaming it here ? I thought he was busy ironically handing out toys to the kids of the people he & Doug Ford are keeping poor ?" 3/
Question for @fordnation:
Hello Premier, Is there any plan for what's going to happen to #ODSP recipients remains after they start dropping like flies ?
5% As you must know, won't bring recipients back to where they were 8 months ago never mind 4 years ago. 1/
(CC: @CityCynthia)
Shown is the POST 5% amount you @fordnation have said you will provide (listed in 2022) however that won't even keep them at the $1169 you left them consigned them to 4 years ago. (2.6% percent reduction in ODSP buying power) 2/
(CC: @Ont_Ombudsman)
Your 5% "Raise" will leave people at least $149.44 per month worse off than the day you started your first term @fordnation and THAT was already considered Deep Deep poverty (40% below poverty roughly) 3/
(CC: @srpoverty@CdnHumanRights )
LOL @AndreaHorwath
“There was a real sense of … disengagement,”
“People had had enough disruption and they just wanted to stand pat in terms of where they were in everyday life. And there was not a huge appetite for change.”
More people voted for change than "standing pat" 1/
And you want to talk about Disengagement ?
there were long stretches of time I thought we should have requested the US send in Seal Team Six to find where ever the hell you'd bunkered yourself up into.
People wanted change.
People wanted their lives better than today.
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And when it was time for you to deliver,
You provided a plan that wasn't much better than the OLP and the OLP plan wasn't much different than what the OLP had done to lose their dominance in 2018.
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