We participated in several focus groups, 3 technical roundtables & watched every committee hearing thru HUMA & SOCI.

We heard NOT ONE person recommend using the DTC as a gateway to the underfunded #CanadaDisabilityBenefit .

We heard lots of folks recommend against it.
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Canada Disability Benefit funding in the federal budget fell far short of what's needed, advocates say. Will Doug Ford protect ODSP rates when the new federal money rolls out? They're not saying yet. Me for TVO.me: tvo.org/article/aspira…

We are discouraged that funding for the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit announced in yesterday’s Budget 2024 will fail to lift people with disabilities out of poverty.

☝️More must – and can – be done to #EndDisabilityPoverty in Canada.

Our release: bit.ly/FedBudgetCDB_TW

Page 106 talks about the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit which looks nothing like what was announced/introduced during the 2020 Throne Speech

View/download the Canadian #Budget2024 here:
budget.canada.ca/2024/home-accu…

Anyone interested in watching the tabling of the Canadian Federal #Budget2024 , should be able to check it out here:
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Since the expansion of #MAiD in 2021, we've argued the 'suffering' that may cause ppl to seek MAiD is not due to their disability but to a lack of proper support

When MAiD is easier to get than in this man's case, a proper mattress, we have gone too far

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Yesterday, the Conservatives dropped another housing bill called Bill 185, the Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024, and updated the Provincial Policy Statement.

These are significant developments. We’ll be hosting an interactive online briefing from 12pm to 1pm on

It's counterintuitive to think those receiving below poverty level benefits – and dealing w/housing & food insecurity – can successfully reintegrate into the labour force.

Current social-assistance rates serve not as a springboard but as a black hole.
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Three-in-five Canadians describe the current financial supports available to those living with disabilities as 'inadequate' or 'far too little'.

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'Our country is in a pivotal moment,' says #DailyBreadTO CEO Neil Hetherington, following the news 9 in 10 Canadians support a fully funded #Canada #Disability Benefit, but 58% don't trust the gov't to deliver. Learn about the survey & solutions: newswire.ca/news-releases/… RT

Angus Reid survey of 1,610 Cdn adults:
91% support the proposed #CanadaDisabilityBenefit
45% 'doubt' it will happen
13% 'certain' it will never happen
5% 'confident' federal govt will follow thru
#Cdnpoli Kamal Khera
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ON govt fails to live up to its human rights commitments in Budget 2024

Ford govt has largely steered clear of overt spending cuts, preferring instead the slow erosion of social programs through inflation and population growth.
#ONpoli
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'Rates are so low that people are unable to climb out of poverty, she said, facing stigma against them needing help in the first place that exacerbates the problem.

'It's not that people don't want to work ... They don't have the ability to find jobs given how deep their poverty…

“Ajax Council calls on the provincial govt to urgently increase #OW rates to a livable rate & commit to indexing supports to annual inflation”

Stats show ~28% of OW clients are in poor health/disabled. They face barriers to access #ODSP e.g. no family Dr.
#ONpoli Michael Parsa

ON Budget 2024: No Real Lifeline for Low Income Ontarians

Province yet again leaves #ODSP clients w/little to combat the ongoing housing & affordability crises, dysfunctional policies, and barriers to work.

#OW rates still frozen since 2018.
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'Social assistance should help people, not make their lives even harder.' — Alan Broadbent & Elizabeth McIsaac (@maytree_canada) #onpoli tvo.org/article/how-go…

Among all provinces, ON’s per capita spending on public services is dead last. By a lot.

Doctors, nurses, teachers are fleeing. Food bank use is at record levels. Tent cities are everywhere.

Profit & privatization is the overarching goal.
#ONpoli
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View/download Ontario's 2024 provincial budget here:
budget.ontario.ca/2024/index.html