Living the Nightmare Continues, but Light is at the end of Tunnel!

By Kendall Worth!

I open this post asking the Question: What Nightmare are we talking about here?

Click on this link here and you will have your answer. Click on this link for the latest on this Nightmare.

Click to watch video... https://twitter.com/CQualtro/status/1669136677221138447?s=20

A person with the disability community has been living this nightmare since November 2022 when Bill C22 was first introduced in the House of Commons. Over the past several months the Bill made it’s way through the Senate. Then recently returned to the house. Now the Bill is back in the Senate. Both houses must pass the same Bill, and the House did not accept some Senate amendments. The following tweet, however, shows light at the end of the tunnel.

 

This puts the disability community, and their advocates, in a position where we now have to keep the pressure on the Senate to get this bill to Royal Assent. Here in Nova Scotia where I live, the disability community was full of anxiety wondering when this nightmare is going to come to an end. This anxiety is caused by the Government of Canada moving as slow as cold molasses in getting the work of this bill completed. In the meantime in Nova Scotia, the nightmare was increased because during the time the Federal Government was doing it’s work on the bill, our provincial government did nothing to address poverty or as this post points out to raise the Income Assistance rates.

The Nova Scotia Disability Community continues to hope that the Disability Benefit will provide an allowance that is better then the $950.00 standard household rate offered through the Employment Support and Income Assistance Program at Community Services. Hearing from other parts of Canada that their Income Assistance rates are not much better then Nova Scotia's, hopefully this benefit will improve the lives of other persons with disabilities, in Canada.

Lets get this Bill to the Finish line! is my message to the Senate!