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Conservative Majority again (Local and Political).
3 years ago
General
Ontario has re-elected its Conservative government for a Majority. This is traditional for a government to have 2 terms before we get tired of em (Anyone Remember Mike Harris or Bob Rae?) I really am not effected by the new government in most of the policies and I did not vote for the winners (as usual) for my riding.
However I do have one comment:
Heaven help the 400,000 of us on ODSP who are continuing to be forced with an ablest and austeric government who is anti disabled and antagonistic to our issues of suffering.
One who will withhold our ODSP checks (after being declared "permanently unemployable" by the courts) for not working or participating in "mandated life stabilization programs" that'll only bankrupt municipalities and may be an attempt to 'bleed a stone'.
These programs will be used to threaten cities with essential operating funds or income for social assistance recipients (OW or ODSP) who through no fault of their own, cannot find work-- or can't participate meaningfully in their respective regions. It'll be like the UK where you have to go to a judge every 6 months to continue to get full disability benefits combined with Germany where the government FORCES cities to hire everyone that is rejected by the private sector (and the cities have to pay for the training too--out of municupal funding and not provincial) or lose money for road's, hospitals, and transit.
This is only going to make regional disparities worse! Though it will create opportunities for better low-cost inter-regional migration (as this will be the only option aside from starvation). Someone is gonna have to pay your gas as a long-term unemployed with no hope to move else where and it'll be a barter system for rides everywhere to meet "job search quotas"
Right now for example, my city is not doing what the province wants in "Welfare Reform" as 1/6 of the population in the city is on some form of assistance and unemployed (vast majority are on disability but official stats of ratio are not kept). People on assistance are not counted in national EI/UI numbers either, so don't let those HRSDC numbers fool you. We are also NDP territory here (most likely - as my riding has not declared winners yet), so Toronto people DGAF about us as it is.
There is a 10 billion dollar hospital deal and another 3 billion battery plant going up that the province could "cut out of" if Windsor doesn't "play by the rules" when "Phase 3" of "Social Assistance Reform" hits us
Oh and yes if you are like me and you have an ASD with Co-morbid diagnoses and neurological defects: forget about anything in this province. Especially if you don't live with family or in a group home with a DSO certificate. You may as well take the Euthanasia MAID offers you (like what Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca hinted at when asked why he cut back the "rate increase" in his platform).
Your gonna starve and become homeless because you will be deemed by the "private MLIMS" to be "employable" and you will lose your ODSP and/or OW. You will have to beg for money, become a prostitute or drug dealer (number one occupation of the disabled in Windsor), or have to move out of province to continue to survive. ONTARIO IS UNDER NO CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION to help you and THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF EXERCISING THIS.
MANITOBA AND QUEBEC (if you speak french as they've all but banned the use of English there) ARE HOWEVER and you may find some sympathy in Toronto or Ottawa with "ASD specific" charities and private infrastructure (for those not "disabled" enough for DSO funding). It'll be a lottery play for those with limited funds though.
For now Ill wait and continue to struggle as I pay my 400 in debts slowly and do my best to keep my food supply good( even though i still have to ask for a bit of money every so often for that too x.x). Everything else is on the back burner including apartment repairs until things change or I get a huge pile of money (like 1000 to finish my immediate goals)
Good luck to all of you we may need it!
However I do have one comment:
Heaven help the 400,000 of us on ODSP who are continuing to be forced with an ablest and austeric government who is anti disabled and antagonistic to our issues of suffering.
One who will withhold our ODSP checks (after being declared "permanently unemployable" by the courts) for not working or participating in "mandated life stabilization programs" that'll only bankrupt municipalities and may be an attempt to 'bleed a stone'.
These programs will be used to threaten cities with essential operating funds or income for social assistance recipients (OW or ODSP) who through no fault of their own, cannot find work-- or can't participate meaningfully in their respective regions. It'll be like the UK where you have to go to a judge every 6 months to continue to get full disability benefits combined with Germany where the government FORCES cities to hire everyone that is rejected by the private sector (and the cities have to pay for the training too--out of municupal funding and not provincial) or lose money for road's, hospitals, and transit.
This is only going to make regional disparities worse! Though it will create opportunities for better low-cost inter-regional migration (as this will be the only option aside from starvation). Someone is gonna have to pay your gas as a long-term unemployed with no hope to move else where and it'll be a barter system for rides everywhere to meet "job search quotas"
Right now for example, my city is not doing what the province wants in "Welfare Reform" as 1/6 of the population in the city is on some form of assistance and unemployed (vast majority are on disability but official stats of ratio are not kept). People on assistance are not counted in national EI/UI numbers either, so don't let those HRSDC numbers fool you. We are also NDP territory here (most likely - as my riding has not declared winners yet), so Toronto people DGAF about us as it is.
There is a 10 billion dollar hospital deal and another 3 billion battery plant going up that the province could "cut out of" if Windsor doesn't "play by the rules" when "Phase 3" of "Social Assistance Reform" hits us
Oh and yes if you are like me and you have an ASD with Co-morbid diagnoses and neurological defects: forget about anything in this province. Especially if you don't live with family or in a group home with a DSO certificate. You may as well take the Euthanasia MAID offers you (like what Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca hinted at when asked why he cut back the "rate increase" in his platform).
Your gonna starve and become homeless because you will be deemed by the "private MLIMS" to be "employable" and you will lose your ODSP and/or OW. You will have to beg for money, become a prostitute or drug dealer (number one occupation of the disabled in Windsor), or have to move out of province to continue to survive. ONTARIO IS UNDER NO CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION to help you and THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF EXERCISING THIS.
MANITOBA AND QUEBEC (if you speak french as they've all but banned the use of English there) ARE HOWEVER and you may find some sympathy in Toronto or Ottawa with "ASD specific" charities and private infrastructure (for those not "disabled" enough for DSO funding). It'll be a lottery play for those with limited funds though.
For now Ill wait and continue to struggle as I pay my 400 in debts slowly and do my best to keep my food supply good( even though i still have to ask for a bit of money every so often for that too x.x). Everything else is on the back burner including apartment repairs until things change or I get a huge pile of money (like 1000 to finish my immediate goals)
Good luck to all of you we may need it!
Thankfully we Canadians only do this once every 4 years and our representation system is a bit different but yeah this outcome is worst case possible for people like me here in Ontario.
Leadership races are for political party members only--but it does make for good news popcorn :P
It really does...