How poverty, not pain, is driving some disabled Canadians towards medically assisted death

[@ingridmueller3291]

The fact they set the disability compensation purposely below the poverty line is very sad and makes me mad!!!

[@bradcanning875]

The real problem is the disability designation. At least half the people on it are like the people in handicap parking. They are there because doctors give them the designation out of sympathy and not genuine need.

[@saveourfigs]

It’s the same in Australia. Awful. And the unemployment rate is a scandal.

[@Lovelessvalentine66]

Cool do something about it then you have a few months before people like me get to apply how many people will die before things change.

[@mercedes_420]

ikr 😢 this is disturbing & reminds me more of eugenics than “assistance”

[@Adam-pr1gl]

@@mercedes_420 That's because it is.

[@NeilXSwint]

My understanding is that an inmate in Ontario costs taxpayers around $150,000 per year. Someone on disability in Ontario gets $15,000 a year. So in Ontario a disabled person is worth 1/10th of 1 inmate. Just think about that for a moment.

[@DivaliciousOne]

Let's be very clear. The spin doctor's let you believe it costs that much to house an inmate. It doesn't. That costing average is actually fancy government accounting whereby the guards are some of the country's highest paid employees. Further, I challenge you to sit in a court room. The judge may hear 2 cases in a day, the rest of the time postpone cases repeatedly. It's ludicrous and churning money for the judiciary. The waste of money on bureaucracy is rampant. Inmates are absolutely gouged and leave prison worse off and with nothing to show for the time and money wasted. All this to say that Canada has a big problem of funneling money to cronies and fat cats while its most vulnerable people starve. Remember the Brian Mulroney scandal when he stated that he needed the illicit funds because he had a lifestyle to maintain? Yeah, that's where the money goes. Most people in prison aren't even truly criminals, I would say 85% are actually just traumatized poor people and minorities. They fell on bad times and made poor choices due to the very lack of supports we are discussing! We can't let political talking points distract us! The powers that be take care of corporate interest and the upper middle class and higher that feed those systems. The rest of us are drowning and it's about time we get a life raft!

[@BAHDK]

its an oxymoron

[@DivaliciousOne]

@@darrencraig9263 I wish it were true, but the people in prison are highly neglected. You are not connecting the money dots as I've laid them out for you. The money spent is spent on the prison system itself, not the inmates. They work up to 3 jobs for a max per diem of $5 per day, regardless. They MAY get life-saving treatments, yes, if the doctor is compassionate. However the daily care is NOT of your choosing, the jaded nursing staff is inept and most of your care is left to the other inmates who are not prepared or trained in anyway. The prescriptions filled are only the ones that can be served by a nurse (for their profit) and you may be signed up to be used as a lab rat to trial new drugs. If you need stronger meds or you die from the cocktail they conjured up, oh well. MANY people die in prison because simple things are neglected, you are usually ignored if you cry out for help. If you're lucky a real nurse who committed a crime is in your bunk. I'm dead serious. 😑 The dentist in provincial prison in Québec is actually a veterinarian. 😳 Let that sink in...

[@Blaze6108]

Well, yeah, jailing people is expensive. You're better off giving someone 50000 a year so they don't fall into criminality than waiting for them to commit a crime and then having to keep them in jail for 150000 a year. Unfortunately most politicians don't understand numbers and just want to look "tough on crime".

[@humanwithaplaylist]

Sorry but even prisoners deserve life. You gonna tell someone who is in there because they robbed a place because they were trying to SURVIVE CAPITALISM that they are worthless? Or someone in there for a parking ticket that they are worthless. Cut this genocial sentiment out fam. It's disgusting

[@vicgamesvt9682]

I think no Canadian should be living in poverty but disabled people especially should have supports to keep them above the poverty line.

[@shellyslioneyes]

In USA, to get SSI, you have to be BELOW the poverty line.

[@gracemarion499]

I'm totally ashamed of Canada.

[@jamieking8011]

I drove past the homeless tent city on Victoria in Kitchener and it made my heart sink that the Government doesn't care about them at all.

[@bradcanning875]

Then try moving to the US and see how much worse it is in the "greatest country in the world". As a person in a wheelchair I am fortune to live in NDP run BC.

[@Arkiasis]

@@jamieking8011 Government only cares about corporations and imports 450k people a year to ensure corporate profits stay high while your quality of life drops.

[@shauncameron8390]

@@bradcanning875 Namely locales run by Democrats who are the US's version of the Liberals and NDP.

[@Ynalaw]

We have to give people from Ghana and India free ride. These disables are really oversqueezing budgets.

[@carlam4986]

I am on Ontario Disability after a work place accident years ago. Workers Compensation closed my file after found a job but I was unable to sustain it. Ontario disability won't cover physiotherapy to help me with the chronic pain and weakness I have. It's not part of the program. Can you believe there are no benefits to provide physical therapy to people with physical disabilities? Our system only values people who can earn money for the rich. If you are old or disabled you have no value. It's harsh, but it's true. That is capitalism.

[@TheRazzaManazza]

I would argue that EVERY system in history has valued people that contribute the most. How else do you form a system? After all, the people that produce and contribute more than they consume are in effect, carrying the weight of those that do not, or can not.

[@vicgamesvt9682]

There should honestly be a guranteed income so no one has to live below the poverty line and disabled people should also have ODSP to cover medical costs but ideally the guranteed income would be enough ($2000/month) that ODSP wouldn't have to pay out any funds.

[@bradcanning875]

BC is much better but the biggest problem is doctors submitting patients to the disability programs and padding the reasons. Look at handicap parking and disability housing. 70% are not needing either.

[@bradcanning875]

@@vicgamesvt9682 Who is going to fund that? If that was the case half the people on minimum wage would quit their job.

[@Vickytoriahirt1234]

Not every one who employs you is rich first if all. And If you were living in a state socialist society, you would only be valued by how much you could do labor for the whole. Stalin would have shot you because you would have been useless to the whole

[@Logan69420]

I receive disability in BC. If I didn't live with family I would be dead or homeless. I wouldn't wish this life on anyone. It's sickening how the government would rather us die then give us enough to live a healthy life.

[@graceb4732]

I am on disability in BC and I am blessed to be working parttime. Still, its not enough when rents are high here. What scares me the most is how easy to get assisted euthanasia.

[@hairydude1950]

Could you imagine if there was no government etc; you probably wouldn't even be with us...

[@hairydude1950]

@MakinPopcorn4theEnd And imagine if there was no government etc; he/she probably wouldn't even be with us...

[@bradcanning875]

I have been on disability in BC for 13 years until recently retiring. I didn't have the help of family but figured out how to survive. They purchase me a new power wheelchair when I needed it. They purchased my teeth and hearing aids, and all medical aids/supplies. However, many people and doctors are using the "disability" designation to get a larger welfare cheque. This also puts people with serious mobility or medical issues in long lines for wheelchair accessible housing and especially handicap parking.

[@bradcanning875]

@@graceb4732 The problem isn't so much the government as it is the disability designation. I have been on disability in BC for 13 years. They purchase my power wheelchairs and teeth and hearing aids and all medical aids/supplies. The biggest problem is the disability subsidized housing is like handicap parking? It's full of people who really aren't either. This is a non-issue because you can lay in bed and take an overdose of pills if you want to die.

[@Bluemoonjellyfishh]

I am 21, disabled, I am about to be homeless soon, as I cannot find a place and BC housing wait is 2-5 years. I am scared for my future, being disabled has made it nearly impossible to live as it limits what you can do in so many ways legally. I don’t have family who can support me. Edit- 8 months later, doing so much better. Found housing, worked my a** off to get it and keep it. Got part-time work and am working super hard at achieving all my goals and dreams! :) I figured it out, it was brutal, but I did it yee haw! C: Just gotta put the brains and work in

[@thomasnguyen6144]

Housing in BC is so expensive. I’m on aish. I wouldn’t survive in BC.

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

God loves and wants to have a relationship with you. God gives hope and will give you the strength to move forward. God send his only son so that any one who believes in him will have eternal life in Heaven with God. John 3:16-21 ESV - "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”"

[@domenica7650]

@@jent9076 He said he will have no home soon.

[@domenica7650]

@@jent9076 If you where not able to pay your rent than you are usually evicted even if you come into the position again to pay that rent. He as well says he is disabled. So he now has the 4 stresses now of having no money, having no home soon, having a disability and having to find work. People are not machines. At some point stress can become so poisonous that you can't think anymore, even to a person who is not disabled.

[@joshuasusanto4258]

First you're only 21 years old. That's very very young and alot of good things can happen to you if you tried. Second what disability do you have? Three, don't be afraid of the future. Focus yourself, on improving yourself so that you can be a service to those close to you; present or future. This applies even if you don't have a family, don't let the ghost of those who got it worse than you yet succeeded, judge you for your cowardice. Live life bravely, bear that burden with a wide heart.

[@cavelleardiel]

Yup, give a bunch of teenagers 2,000 a month in CERB but can't put that money out for people with disabilities.

[@tmacmac-ec2ut]

GIVE UKRAINE BILLIONS .....BUT WE CANT TAKE CARE OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS AND GRANDFATHERS

[@ScoobyDoo-ow5bk]

I've been almost deaf for my entire life. The government has never even given me disability. I've been forced to try and work, but have failed my entire life because of my disability.

[@cookiemonster7513]

@@ScoobyDoo-ow5bk you are definitely eligible for disability! Keep trying you deserve to have it.

[@seanothepop4638]

I need to see more comments like this from you on other videos as well, would you be able to advocate for disabled Canadians actually or are you just stoking an anti-ubi argument? So far it's the latter.

[@fkauthority]

CERB? English please.

[@jamieking8011]

This is one of the reasons why disability should be raised to $2000 a month.

[@vicgamesvt9682]

I agree but I think everyone should have a guranteed income of $2000/month. It doesn't have to be a UBI as that would cost wayy to much but it could be a income floor that phases out as your income grows.

[@shauncameron8390]

@@vicgamesvt9682 And where's the money going to come from to support it?

[@AlCatSplat]

@@shauncameron8390 taxes

[@shauncameron8390]

@@AlCatSplat From who? People are struggling to support themselves and their loved ones.

[@Xrosstalk]

@@shauncameron8390 Corporate profits are at a 50 year high. The price per barrel of oil after the 2008 crash is about the same as now but the price at the pump is double what it was then. Oil is cheaper to produce now than it was then. Follow the money dude...it's not hard. CEO pay is out of control (In what 73' it was 24x the standard salary and now it's 300x ish?). Close corporate tax loopholes, seizure of off shore accounts in arrears going back 40 years...we JUST did it to Russian oligarchs...treat our domestic oligarchs exactly the same. Go back to the corporate tax brackets of the 50's...that's the kind of conservatism I'm behind. Profit motive drove off all the manufacturing jobs to exploitable labour markets and propagandized people to believe that was for our good. Unscrupulous and amoral mentality mixed with greed causes most of our suffering. Bernie Madoff was not an anomaly but the standard operating procedure of our monetary systems. We have more than enough resources to fix these problems...we have actual solutions. Greed prevents them from being realized. Where do you want to start? Have you even looked at any of how the mechanics of this world operate? I'm not trying to put you on the spot but you offered zero information. There are legitimate and obvious holes in our system that are not being addressed. Planned obsolescence is an affront to everything humanity should stand for...as is right to repair. Copyright laws and most of our legal system in general is setup to protect the wealthy and exploit the vulnerable. This was just in a brief 30 seconds of "where would the money come from?" that I could readily recall without actually digging into any white papers. I'd love to discuss this but you are simply firing from the hip without any additional information it seems. Dunno I'm just a peon in this system so what do I know?

[@mrdollyman5675]

Before: “Suicide is never the answer!” Now: *or is it?*

[@ceasarsaran8573]

Now its very cost effective.

[@brandonmunsen6035]

@@nicholassilva9245 ??

[@davidharrow9025]

@@brandonmunsen6035 no that is ridiculous. I'm guessing you're joking.

[@laymansmusicworld]

@@brandonmunsen6035 Any practical suggestions of how to do it?

[@jaybeaulieu6234]

Can you explain to me what is the answer. The disabled can not be living on the street. Obviously it would be better to end it peacefully. Healthy people can't even begin to understand.

[@BusterMSC1]

The news doesn’t usually effect me much. I’m pretty desensitized. But something about this story is really bothering me and breaking my heart.

[@MindOverMood]

Because you have a heart and this’s clearly wrong, in a huge way.

[@infinitehopefoundation]

I can’t stop crying and praying that the people in this video haven’t died at the hands of the government. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@albertafarmer8638]

Our LORD says: You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13. Please accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior while you can!!! There is no forgiveness of sins without JESUS, if you die in your sins you won't go to heaven but to the other destination.

[@bellagrace183]

@@albertafarmer8638?? so wouldn’t the doctors be the ones “committing murder” then lmao. by your logic, these people are murder victims

[@uninsurable9028]

I feel the same way. I have often told my kids that euthanasia centers would become the norm but now that it’s here…wow.

[@5amura115]

I didn't realize how evil the Canadian government is. Heartbreaking.

[@Mrwizard-ck7oe]

Nothing else convinced you they were?

[@5amura115]

@@Mrwizard-ck7oe no there's plenty. I just didn't realize it was THIS bad

[@5amura115]

@Just Another NPC Amen brother. I'll be right there with you if they try to come for our arms too 👊

[@87-GTA]

The current Canadian government is disgusting. And it’s only going to get worse as long as Castro JR is in power.

[@arnowisp6244]

The UN literally called their Euthanasia laws a Violation of Human rights.

[@Lanaslife247]

This is so sad … increasing disability benefits would help ! Instead of having the disabled wanting to die ?! So. So . Sad 😞

[@shellyslioneyes]

Wow, $1300? That's a lot. I get $941 and $70 for food. The USA just cut disability benefits in 2023 for disabled and seniors

[@FishyFun57]

@@shellyslioneyes Rent can be $1200-$2000 for a low end 1 bdrm apt, depending where in Canada. A rented room is $600-$800, if you can find anyone willing to rent to you. Foreign buyers of housing has inflated rents. Even healthy working people are having difficulty affording rent. Then the carbon tax on fuels. Groceries are ridiculously expensive here.

[@joxyjoxyjoxy1]

Hitler would be so proud of the Canadian govt. What a compassionate way to rid society of its undesirables.

[@shauncameron8390]

Hitler would fit right in with the current federal Liberal Party.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

Hitler will be available in the USA to speak at rallies soon enough. So he might already be proud.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

Soon the US will be ahead of the Hitler kills per hour I'm sure.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

Hitler will soon be proud of Texas Christians... They will kill us anyways .. I'd rather it be humane than burning alive thanks.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

So Hitler would be proud of Texas too.

[@lquidgrl]

I didn't think it was so widespread. I went to my doctor in January to ask for help with assisted suicide. Chronic pain is so difficult, adding abject poverty is just too much. I too had a normal life. Worked hard. Now my worries are constantly food and bills. I don't drink or do drugs. I live simply, I don't ask for much. Is it too much to want to have a stable environment and fresh vegetables? edit: I am in B.C.

[@Lipsz951]

Is there any way I can help ?

[@ceasarsaran8573]

Thats why you can have opiates prescribed. They should do enough to make you comfortable, and they are better then the alternative.

[@ceasarsaran8573]

@@Lipsz951 The best thing anyone can do is make people aware this is what MAID gets used for. Most people dont know. If they did, it might change. Ask yourself why this isnt a big story.

[@nmc1859]

Natural remedies are the best. Even if it's certain stretches and food or limiting of certain foods. I am not truing to be dismissive or rude, just saying God has a way. These evil ones don't want you to see. Your life is meaningful ❤🙏

[@Iys67]

I pray that you have a way out and don't consider suicide anymore

[@stonehorsegaming]

I live in the EU. First, I am hearing of this. I'm not sure why this isn't making a bigger impact in the media. This just looks like a form of eugenics, a way to get rid of those who are seen as a financial burden. I have no issue with assisted suicide, if it is due to an incurable disease/condition that is making someone's life unbearable. In these cases, the solutioj is better social security through financial aid. Not MAID. I am shocked that this is happening in Canada and not the USA.

[@CierraClayton51]

The US spends double the amount of money per capita on healthcare for Canada. The average SSDI payment is 1200 a month and they eligible for public healthcare and a load of other social services to keep them afloat . Assisted death is only legal in 10 US states because US citizens would rather spend money to save someone than end their lives, unlike the Canadian government who is only thinking of their stupid maple scented money.

[@tylerwestover234]

Canada has less freedom.

[@BuzzingMeat]

United States Of Awin

[@DominionMovementDotOrg]

in the US they just make you do it yourself from the same imposed circumstances. Canada is being open with their attitudes and possibly a less violent form of genocide vs US’ covert form that instead makes the individual appear at fault for their demise

[@nicolecarnevale3226]

No in the US they are driven into homelessness unless marriage or family is involved. That kills them in the US.

[@PS-zu5ww]

The story not being told is the deliberate refusal of applications for basic treatment and services by government to their citizens. Then denying appeals without just cause. Supported by their politically appointed Officers of Parliament. A wilful way by those in power to force Canadians into these regrettable circumstances. The BC Premier and Canadian PM should be ashamed, but they apparently aren't capable of empathy. Yes, there is a name for their condition.

[@shauncameron8390]

Empathy is overrated as even sociopaths have empathy.

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

@@shauncameron8390 Its good to have empathy for others because it means that you care for others. In the Bible it talks about how when you do something like help someone, what matters is what's in the heart.

[@domenica7650]

@@shauncameron8390 The pain system in sociopaths seems to be damaged and that will strongly limit empathy. Anything that decreases pain (painkillers like paracetamol, antidepressant) seems ti decrease empathy.

[@chugfoose7077]

Klaus Schwab said 4 billion "useless eaters" have got to go. Turdo seems to have no problem with that idea.

[@mikehunt-w8u]

He is from nazi pedigree.

[@armans4494]

My heart breaks for everyone. I hope for our world to change

[@primmakinsofis614]

It will keep changing for the worse as long as governments are left in power which continue to follow insanely inflationary monetary policies.

[@Nathan-lt6bw]

it's all fords doing.

[@patarp1350]

@@Nathan-lt6bw It is not just Ford but every politician everywhere and all Premiers regardless of political side and colour, Liberal or Conservative in the past and present.

[@shauncameron8390]

It will change when we apologize to God and admit that our own way has failed us.

[@randicook15]

We need to do more than hope. We all need to get out on the streets and demand this changes right now!! That is it. They will never change willingly. They don't even care about autistic children digressing because their parts can't afford to put them into the programs and the government will lie to all of our faces and say the new autism "program" is doing great things... doug ford very much disapproved if a house on his street housing adults with autism. He complained and didn't want his property value or something to diminish... these arseholes seem to not understand a damn thing. That or they are completely bankrupt of any morality or ethics. The nazi's started with they disabled or people they deemed feeble minded... would that be considered the workers with "zero skills" could be deemed? People need to be outraged and on the streets on mass demanding this stops TODAY! I am appalled and ashamed to be an Ontarian and a Canadian these days. It is rather demoralizing. I myself am on OW, which gets even less than o.w, but I am getting by because my mother and I rent a place that is controlled by a trust and our rent is $883 a month... will be going up to $905.. my mother is on odsp... eventually we will be priced out of our apartment and then I do not know what we will do.. but that time has not come yet. I tried getting on odsp but my time to get the paperwork handed in ran out and my dr was gone on a bit for a family emergency that is why I didn't get it in on time. I never bothered to try again because I see the writing on the wall... they are privatizing these services and it is going to get a million times worse.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

Canada: “My health care is amazing!” Also Canada: “What’s a Hippocratic oath?”

[@87-GTA]

Canadian health care is a joke. I’d rather pay out of pocket like in the US instead of getting robbed every pay day for AWFUL care

[@arnowisp6244]

@@87-GTA And the fact they are using Euthanasia as a release valve.

[@rogerfreeman6787]

Doctors everywhere break their oath every day.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

@rogerfreeman6787 Bruh, that’s a tu quoque fallacy. What your doing is equivalent to someone pointing out the horrors of Holocaust and someone else replying “but all nations kill people.” While technically true that doesn’t make it any less right and ignores the specificity of the evil being discussed.

[@islandbirdw]

85% of homeless people in US have a disability that precludes them from working. Imagine having chronic pain and trying to live sleeping on the street.

[@apples_and_orchards3205]

I’m in U.S. and have severe chronic illness and pain and have been denied disability for 16 years and just turned down again! Yet tons of ppl who don’t need it receive it without even having to go to court. Little of they know God’s wrath is coming soon!!!U.S. is not much better!

[@fuzzymaiden1]

I live with chronic pain.. what they need to to TREAT CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS with the damn opioid therapy they DESERVE. 99% of us on a managed opioid therapy are NOT ADDICTS.. and all those addicts on the street are HEROIN USERS.. DRS DID NOT CREATE ADDICTS BY RX PILLS.. ask ANY H ADDICT and most will tell 1 of ways they STARTED: Either 1: They were disobedient teens.. smoked weed and drank alcohol and went to party alot.. then one day they got into GRANDMA'S medicine cabinet and took her pills.. from then on they kept STEALING PILLS, THEN BOUGHT PILLS, THEN GOT ON H.. AND NOW MANY CHOOSE FENTYNAL!! or 2 Again: teenage disobedience is 1 marker.. already having exposure to ALCOHOL/WEED/PARTYS.. ^^this type of teen (already disobedient but hidibg it from parents) breaks theur ankle while out with friends, Doctor PRESCRIBES a 7 DAY AMOUNT (yes drs dont actually rx a plethora of pills for ACUTE INJURIES!!).. The TEEN takes their meds but does not follow drs inatructionz, teen NOTICES the pills are similar to their DRUNK feeling, pills are more convenient to carry around than a bottle.. then they run out too fast, dr dies NOT write a new rx, teen then steals pills from grandna or goes out and huys pills, pills get hard to find one day but the dealer iffers Heroin.. abd bam.. now they are stuck on heroin.. But in EACH SCENARIO:.. THOSE ADDICTS TOOK SONETHING THAT FID NOT BELONG TO THEM! AND WHEN THEY FID HAVE A LEGIT RX.. they did nit take it properly.. already had a HISTORY of drug use/abuse.. so the pojnt here is that had they been rx ZANAX instead of opioids.. they would have gotten addicted th o that instead and eventually would lead to H on the streets.. * its not DRUG TYPE (opioids) itself that causes addiction: its the PERSONALITY TYPE that already has a history of drug use and addictive NATURE to anything that gives them a "head-change".. * Drug addiction is not a result of DOCTORS who write rx opioids for LEGITIMATE PAIN PATIENTS.. Grandma with a broken hip, 20 yr old Jane with MS, 40 yr old John who worked hard labor as a carpenter, fibromyalgia, eds, crps.. its not OUR FAULT that we require our pain to be managed to live a decent quality of life, and its not the drs fault fir his CV compassion.. go after the REAL addicts and TREAT the REAL PATIENTS likeveterans with war injuries!! For god sake itsvery easy to understand!!!!@

[@jmonita2000]

@@apples_and_orchards3205 get a lawyer, if they think you can win they will usually charge you after u get the money

[@rauxieswisdom3102]

oh, they"ve just passed a bill where they can collect people living on the streets and involuntarily commit them. In America. Gee, is the writing on the wall? seeing any patterns?

[@phoenixtoash2396]

I'm also in the U. S. And homeless. Our Government also wants us to die. So they should allow us to. Instead of making everything harder ... Go ahead and be rich or selfish. I don't care... Just send me off this planet as you pocket your paycheck. Lol. I certainly don't wish to live.

[@marthabenitez8887]

I don’t think he should feel bad about receiving support by viewers. That’s what community should do.

[@albertafarmer8638]

Our LORD says: You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13. Please accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior while you can!!! There is no forgiveness of sins without JESUS, if you die in your sins you won't go to heaven but to the other destination.

[@dominicdudebromtl9380]

I can definitely confirm. I am one of these people. And I honestly believe this is situational design, not circumstance.

[@joecheffo5942]

One of what people. The people who is angry the government is giving you a choice? I wish I had the choice.

[@dominicdudebromtl9380]

@@joecheffo5942 the government is responsible for social welfare and subsistance. But instead our government is starving some of us to death and then giving us the benevolent right to ask for permission to die... also, how do you not have the choice?

[@JennTrimpe]

I agree. It is purposeful.

[@JennTrimpe]

@@joecheffo5942This is not an either/or situation. It is possible to feel angered and saddened that you have no assistance and similtaneously feel angered and saddened that societies are not doing enough to support those who do.

[@JennTrimpe]

@@joecheffo5942I think the point is that it is merely the illusion of choice. And not one granted by government, as if they could, but rather, a choice realized after striving and failing to live sustainably in such conditions through no fault of one's own. It's just the 'accept the things I cannot change' part of the prayer.

[@samh.6272]

Another thing, where are these people's families? Help your own. Stop discarding family members when they get sick and poor. We’ve got family members living in large homes and a sister or brother is living on the streets. It disgusts me. Someone is gorging on a big juicy steak while their mother or father is living in a run-down room with no money for food. Whoever leaves a blood relative to die is morally bankrupt. Take care of your family and extended family. This is the centre of the problem. People not helping each other.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

So true.

[@shauncameron8390]

You have only the social safety net to thank for that. People ceded family care to the government and private institutions in favor of career and lifestyle.

[@sonicleaves]

A lot of people, like myself, come from abusive families who never cared about us as children, who hated us and tried to end it. I'm lucky I made it out alive and I don't care if my "mother" rots on the street.

[@We-will-defeat-them]

It is common for a person with a disability to outlive their parents and not marry or have children.

[@JennTrimpe]

I agree, and too, some people don't have family. Or, for some of us, familial neglect is partly how we arrived here. Family units are merely microcosmic expressions of the apathy and antagonism - of the systemic abuse and neglect-abuse being perpetrated here. There are simply no guarantees of a supported life. We are Christ's 'least if these'...

[@jenniferwong4530]

I have been on CPP Disability for many years. I receive $799.00 per month. Thankfully my husband is still working and we are surviving. If anything happens to him, I wouldn't be able to live. I often think about what I would do if anything happened to him. I would be alone, unable to care for myself and destitute. At that point, my death would be a blessing. I pray that I die first. Canada is an amazing country and assisted suicide for those at the end of life who are living in agony deserve a humane option. We wouldn't let an animal suffer and not euthanize it. However, when the government offers to kill you because the services you need to help you aren't there, compounded by one's inability to pay for them privately, offers suicide as a solution, something is terribly, terribly wrong.

[@nmc1859]

I believe life is precious. Your life has meaning and value

[@luislopez-camacho9121]

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

[@wildfire9280]

This is the kind of stuff that peasant rebellions in times of famine were built on. Personally, if I were in a place where mutually assisted suicide was optimal, I might just self-immolate in front of live cameras and government buildings. Or inconvenience car brains to the degree where they justify running me over. Maybe I shouldn’t speculate at all but seeing no collective action makes this desperate situation even worse.

[@FlyingMalamute]

Or maybe lose 100lbs try to address some of your disability on your own.

[@Megafoot2164]

The international press has taken note of this policy in Canada, and frowns on it with disapproval. I've seen articles on the Associated Press , the BBC , and the Daily Beast web sites. It is not a glowing report of Canada's treatment of poeple with disabilities, in fact its quite the opposite. Who ever decided that this policy was a human right, was really misinformed. 0_o

[@shellyslioneyes]

Why do dogs and cats get treated better? Why do humans, who are poor and sick, get made to suffer? Why do ppl say "you don't deserve to." Well, I guess I must, because I am. If my country thinks Im dispensible and then sends money and aid to other countries then I must be. OHIO

[@Megafoot2164]

@@shellyslioneyes: Being expendable, shunned, scored, what have you, is , as i have realized, through historical events , research, and personal experience, is part of life in first world countries. The only counter measure is to not squander whatever precious resources you have.

[@FreeHeartInspirations2024]

Going from disability to old age is automatic disability! Ridiculous to decrease support.. what on earth happened to the value of people's lives???? This would never happen in a society that honors it's elders!

[@MrJustLes]

Thank you...

[@quirkychelle]

Our Government is SICK!!

[@quirkychelle]

@@jent9076 thought police going to be watching you for that 😆 I agree that we are being taken over by Trudeau and his handlers. WEF, WHO etc

[@Lovin_Jesus]

This is totally unacceptable 😤 and everyone should share this. This world is growing darker everyday. When the world takes hope from the hopeless! Where is love? So sad! SHARE!

[@shellyslioneyes]

What hope?

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

@@shellyslioneyes God gives hope to many and he can give you hope too if you repent and seek God. God loves you and died for you on the cross so that you cN have eternal life with God. God created so you can have a relationship and live with God, not to run but to live for Christ. God will give a plans to prosper when you seek and give God control. John 3:16-21 ESV - "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”"

[@phoenixtoash2396]

What love?

[@Pachitaro]

I'm so tired. Just tired of all of this. This world is sick and I see why anyone would want out. I do too.

[@nmc1859]

Life is precious. Don't give into satan in these end times. Stay strong ❤🙏

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

God loves you so much that he and his only son Jesus to die on the cross so that you can have eternal salvation with with God. John 3:16-21 ESV - "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”"

[@xChaosReignsx]

I want out too but I’m going to stay just bc the government doesn’t like it f^ck them lol

[@noneofyourbusinessna740]

Good advice sometimes it’s difficult facing this evil world ?

[@0x54n4]

@@jesuscaresaboutyou100Fuck this imaginary god. Do you also believe in unicorns? Let's pretend god is real for a moment. Why all the suffering? The only logical explaination would be that god is evil and likes torture...

[@bathsheba9581]

i am in the exact same position in New Jersey, U.S.A.. It tried to live on one thousand in disability, but it is impossible, even with a subsidy for housing. I was just evicted from my housing because I used Gov. Murphy Covid order which allowed me to use my security deposit for rent. This is my second eviction. I am seriously ill with Lupus and MCTD. I worked as a crisis counselor and have always helped people and animals. I am nearly 70 now and am alone. This is how it's going to end. I have no choice but to terminate myself. I can't be in the cold over the winter and there honestly is no real help. Even the churches give it grudgingly. I will be happy to leave the human race as it is today.

[@fabiocaetanofigueiredo1353]

Please tell me, how are you doing?

[@nmc1859]

Your life is precious. Don't let the Enemy win.

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

God loves and cares for you so don't die, all ot takes is to talk to God. PLEASE DONT DIE!!! JESUS DIED FOR YOU ON THE CROSS SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE WITH God in Heaven. John 3:16-21 ESV - "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”"

[@domenica7650]

"I will be happy to leave the human race as it is today" Absutely, our societies are degenerating, no one who has true empathy can survive here and stay sane. God bless you and give you peace.

[@mongoblazingsaddles9440]

An Ontario woman chose to be euthanized because her family could not visit her during lockdowns. Her family was allowed to visit her while she was being euthanized though. And the family were happy with that, which is a horrifying example of how far gone Canadians are. They couldn't go see her because she might die of covid but they could go see her be killed.

[@mrmedicinal]

That’s not how the program works, you need to have a serious health complications not just because your family can’t visit you. And if that was the case, the three doctors that signed off for her to qualifying for the maid program should be held accountable. She wasn’t killed, she hast to sign that that’s what she wants to do. She is also given the opportunity to back out right up until the time of injection.

[@yossarian1633]

Sick and beyond tragic.

[@samh.6272]

I don't believe you. Liar.

[@dancingonmy0wn]

i can't believe that :( it sounds sad and crazy. It was on the news?

[@mongoblazingsaddles9440]

@@dancingonmy0wn Yes it was, on CTV. Nov 19, 2020 SEARCH: "Facing another retirement home lockdown, 90-year-old chooses medically assisted death"

[@quaddog07]

Tax the churches and use that money to pay people with disabilities 3x what they’re getting.

[@LorisBenedict]

Are you serious??!!! Did you even watch the video?!! Do you understand what they're saying???

[@bape890]

You've gotta be kidding me

[@thomasnguyen6144]

I have a disability, but I can’t imagine wanting medically assisted death. If I did that, my family would lose someone they love. My choir would be losing a tenor. The rest of my significant others would be negatively affected. I’m too young to die. I want to live to the fullest and continue to fight for disability rights.

[@mrmedicinal]

Sometimes it’s not the disability itself but for example, in my case, it’s the intractable neuropathic pain that sucks the life out of me and having to spend 18 to 24 hours a day in bed. It becomes overwhelming after 28 years and my family understands. Maybe I’m too much of an empath.

[@sh1fu]

You guys are all warriors and should be proud of yourselves. Your spirit is strong and there will be rewards for your bravery. Stay strong and keep showing kindness when you're at your weakest. I'm proud of you guys.

[@SgtStarSlayer]

Me paying for your disability in forms of taxes ? Go shaft yourself!

[@thomasnguyen6144]

@@SgtStarSlayer we didn’t choose to be disabled. We’re still human beings.

[@SgtStarSlayer]

@@thomasnguyen6144 Greeks kill their deformed and diseased babies what makes you any different but a burden?

[@user-om7qz6nv6y]

This video is mindblowing. I am disabled and waiting for disability benefits. I live in subsidized housing like this woman. She is living on twice the income that I do. I am very poor with serious disabilities. Medically assisted suicide due to finances is absolutely nuts!!! I'm flabbergasted.

[@bradcanning875]

If you are not disabled why are you in subsidized housing?

[@mrmedicinal]

You do not qualify for medically assisted dying just because of your finances. So if money wasn't an issue for these people, they would be happy with their lives?

[@bradcanning875]

@@mrmedicinal The guy with the nice wheelchair accessible bungalow, minivan with power lift, and drinking the Tim Hortons coffee has no sympathy from people struggling on disability. We can only dream of having that. I have to struggle to transit and ride to a Tim Hortons which I couldn't afford to waste on a coffee at their price. What a joke this video is. And that women with 2 high end wheelchairs and that big well furnished apartment that allows a pet. What a gifted life she has.

[@user-om7qz6nv6y]

@@bradcanning875 did you actually read my words? I am disabled. However, that said one doesn't need to be disabled to qualify for subsidized housing. All one needs is to be low income. Your comment doesn't make sense in relation to the topic. Take care brad. Sorry you don't like my opinion.

[@mrmedicinal]

@@bradcanning875 I was thinking the same thing regarding the people in the video.

[@LilAngel25]

I live with a disability if it wasn't for my mom I would be homeless the government needs to wake the f up.and help seniors and the disabled now!! I have no idea what will happen to me once my mom passes and I can't afford housing or food it's so depressing to know the only hope for me and others is death 😢😭

[@Logan69420]

I'm in the same boat

[@JohnSmith-gc7dp]

I eat sardines and microwaved rice everyday. I get by on $20 a day for food.

[@ayoutubechannel.1733]

Eugenics and depopulation in action!

[@100daysmic9]

Should be CRIMINAL to treat disabled people like they do. Disabled seniors, particularly women are the fastest growing group of Homeless people in Metro Vancouver. I am a disabled 75 yr old, pay $1550 a mo for a basement suite because I was evicted twice during Covid because landlord's sold and new owners wanted the use of the suite. I have so little money, hearing aids and a wheelchair are not even an option. I have repeatedly been told to get a job -- and I can barely cope with my pain without working. Yes they WANT people to die. The Feds give a $500 a month Disability Rebate BUT you have to have about a $40,000 to get it....SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE...if you are REALLY DISABLED you aren't EARNING money. My friend has a solution....have a protest of 1000 topless 80+ year old women -- they won't want to see it again and they may smarten up!!!!

[@brianward3468]

This is the best solution our government has for our health care system sickening!!!

[@LFnova9]

I am on ODSP and I understand how this woman feels. I have thought about MAID but I will not leave my two cats behind. But if they were not here, I would choose MAID. ... We shouldn't have to live like this, we already suffer enough. The Government clearly doesn't care about our lives at all. It's painfully obvious.

[@Graymenn]

Suicide is never a good option

[@LFnova9]

@@Graymenn The Government is going to kill me anyway so shouldn't I be allowed to go out on my own terms instead of the long and slow painful death they have planned for many of us? ... Look this is an extreme thing. I understand that. But when the Government is SO BAD that people would rather die than keep living under it, we have a serious problem.

[@Graymenn]

@@LFnova9 I agree, but you should take out your frustrations on the government, not yourself. They want you dead, so stick it to them by living and speaking out against them, organize. You still have a voice. You are not powerless.

[@LFnova9]

@@Graymenn Thank you. Yes I know. But the people should see how real people on ODSP feel living under the program and its cruelty. This is why I spoke up and said how I feel most of the time when I think about the reality of the situation. I am not truly wanting to die. I am dying to live.

[@ceasarsaran8573]

Please dont. Its not the right answer.

[@finneganpupsavedbythebell]

This infuriates me.I have been paying taxes for 45 years as I started working at age 15 and that the government cannot find money to increase payments for the disabled or drops a person from disabled to senior benefits,lowering their income.If anything that senior show now be eligible for both.Mps have no problem double dipping getting their mp pensions and then other income too.Or the government has no problem finding money to constantly pour into indigenous people all their lives for this that and another thing yet taxpayers like me if needed have no safety nets if we need them when we are down and out.

[@cherylbois606]

I'm on ODSP it sucks was homeless for three years and every one threw me away

[@dolo9999]

Damn that’s sad and the fking gouvernement do nothing for them 😡😡😡

[@DavidHalverson]

actually the current poverty is created by the Canadian Government at the Federal and Provincial levels. Medically assisted death is the current option for the poverty stricken citizens to alleviate the burden of supporting them by the government through taxation. Doctors were eliminated in Canada through governmental restrictions, this will open the doors for creating a General Euthanasia Act being passed by Parliament. As the citizens are unable to access medical care for chronic diseases due to age or ability to pay for medication or treatments, expect to see government making it mandatory to report for medically assisted death by order of the government.

[@M_SC]

@@DavidHalverson you are lying. The federal government doesn’t act at the provincial level. You aren’t Canadian or you are propagandist

[@dolo9999]

@@DavidHalverson so deep but true man I mad 😠

[@DavidHalverson]

Actually, the Canadian government is offering them a free ride off this poverty stricken planet and into the next life. All they have to do is sign up for medically assisted death sponsored by the Canadian Government or any government of the world (ie., Sweden)

[@M_SC]

@@dolo9999 lol tell me you aren’t Canadian without telling me you aren’t Canadian

[@jacquelinejohnson7927]

This is crazy, I want to know who has to pay for those funeral services when these people seemingly have no more choices but to die. Funerals are not cheap. That money could better go to help those when still alive. May God help us all.

[@triciaklay7213]

@@huskavarnapunkband are you serious?? I hope not!

[@anneonnamouse5496]

@@huskavarnapunkband green!

[@marlenajeanelle9249]

My brother has Asperger's and suffers from Bipolar and depression as an adult. There was a time when he wanted to kill himself. He went to the hospital here in the USA many times asked to die. If this policy was legal here in America he would be dead right now. Instead he has a case worker and is getting the help he needs and is mentally healthy again. God bless everyone. People should always get a second chance. Ending it all is not the answer.

[@TheFracturedfuture]

Ending it all is definitely an answer, it's just not the answer you like.

[@moriah1394]

Really cause no help in most of US.

[@johnwang9914]

A consequence of social benefits not quite being enough. Problem here is that the government actually benefits financially from these deaths. If there are such deaths shown to be from poverty, then the government must respond by increasing benefits across the board till death due to poverty ceases or at least is below a certain level.

[@av8tor261]

👍

[@primmakinsofis614]

_then the government must respond by increasing benefits across the board_ And where's that money going to come from? The government is already deep in deficit spending, and that massive deficit spending is why you are seeing inflation soar.

[@johnwang9914]

@@primmakinsofis614 And yet trillions can be spent on war. There is humanity in helping those who need help, to do otherwise is inhumane and selfish and the GDP of developed nations are more than sufficient to provide for all, it's just that we reward the rich and powerful. Does anyone really need a salary of over $10 million, yet that is common amongst CEO's. Warren Buffet himself said he pays less in taxes than his secretary. There's plenty that could pay for social benefits but politicians are just afraid of losing donations from the rich and powerful

[@shawnaford5540]

@@primmakinsofis614 I can almost guarantee you that every dollar given in benefits is spent locally, and not going to some offshore account.

[@bramptonjeff81]

We need this outrage on the streets in front of your MP’s & MPP’s office’s we need people without disabilities to help us please!!

[@Oddity00]

Canadians too complacent and docile for action in the streets

[@primmakinsofis614]

Don't be silly, the brain-dead Liberal and NDP supporters will never turn on their chosen party, no matter how incompetent or corrupt it becomes.

[@briankroger7879]

Not voting for Trudeau

[@bradcanning875]

No we need people without real disabilities to stop leeching of the system meant to serve those who are disabled.

[@bradcanning875]

@@briankroger7879 Sure. The Conservatives have done so much for the disabled. Ever compare the provincial disability programs between Conservative and NDP run provinces?

[@truth6612]

I could write the proverbial book on this. One taboo area that is not talked about nearly enough are the sheer numbers of injured workers forced into poverty when the various provincial Workers Compensation Boards (WCB) routinely deny claims/benefits. Politicians have known about the countless issues about these WCB's for well over a decade and have done nothing. The most disgusting case I read about was a department store manager beaten and shot on the job during a robbery, The WCB put him through a living hell for over 15 years! In my case The WCB denied me more than two thrids of the recomended treatments that their own medical team indicated that I needed to recover from my back injury. That was over a decade ago and my back is messed up to the point where I'm on disability. I firmly believe that the reason why the government is expanding the list of those who would qualify for Medically Assisted Dying, is a means of getting rid of more and more of those with disabilities. The more they get rid of, the less they have to deal with.

[@gemcami7243]

No....the less of us have to deal with them and all of you.

[@yegfreethinker]

maybe we should give them "assistance" instead

[@truth6612]

@@yegfreethinker Once upon a time, these Worker's Compensation Boards (WCB) did offer assistance to injured workers. Whether it be various treatments and therapies, up to re-training. The worse case I ever read about was a department store manager was beaten and shot on the job during a robbery. The WCB put him through a iving hell for well over 10 years. Now more and more of these injured workers are denied the assistane they need to get back to work and forced into poverty.

[@lisawdb1]

As a species we have failed

[@yoggerzzz]

Oh yes, we most certainly have. We are the bad guys. We are the plague and the virus. We are the parasite and never satiated and never happy. Always whining, always wanting, always greedy, always hungry, always selfish. The earth will be better when we are gone as a species 100%

[@Glory-to-God.]

China must bring up this issue in the next human rights meeting at UN and demand Canada to start respecting human rights and cease all kinds of discriminations

[@Magdalene777]

Yeah they actually took a stand for environmentalism and refused to accept more US recycling and trash.

[@shauncameron8390]

Of all countries, China? China leaves its elderly and disabled to starve and die in the outskirts of the cities.

[@zakai-kaz]

The west has shown yet again it’s willingness to kill its own people off before it ever addresses its issues.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

China has no room to speak there. They threw their children away in the garbage. Canada is just learning the ways of the Chinese way of thinking. So I do prey that the USA starts thinking the same as China. China had it right.

[@stonerstevesstudio]

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figour that one out.... you don't have enough money to pay for the basics you get really depressed and feel hopeless. Been there and done that, and it's hard to mentally and financially come back from that.

[@shari9721]

It is even harder when you have a physical or mental disability/disease that you know you can't come back from.

[@sonicleaves]

Oh give me a break. People throughout history have gone through actual hell and still held on to survival.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

So what? Just let me have a legal way to end. And I'll be grateful. Without any requirements to force me to live.

[@rollinthunder8671]

Canada is broken. If you do not own a home you are not getting ahead. The average canadian is struggling For Goodness sakes Hamilton is more expensive then LA, Hamilton!. It pains my heart to know the Canada we ALL grew up in is GONE. I'm Making my expat plans And I advise you all to do the same

[@gyroscopejones9217]

And where are you going to go? We have it just as bad in the US, except instead of help dying, the disabled just beg on the highway. Are you going to go to Asia? They don't like westerners. Continental Europe? Get in line. You'll never escape the collapse and there is nowhere to run, trust me I tried. Best to just stay in your country and scrape together whatever community you can.

[@rollinthunder8671]

@@gyroscopejones9217 no the US is an a way better economic position an average house is 430K for an 4 bedroom home There is an old saying: When US sneezes Canada gets a cold. If u want to stay here with no plan be my guest but it's only going to get worse.

[@donnacabot3550]

Poverty and homelessness are a big business and a great money maker. 😢😢😢

[@majesticfool]

how?

[@ceasarsaran8573]

In what way?

[@majesticfool]

homelessness are a bane to businesses with beggers hanging outside. people with no money cant buy things... idk what you mean

[@lw1zfog]

@@majesticfool are you aware of the existence of the ‘Prison Industrial Complex’ ?

[@majesticfool]

@@lw1zfog yes

[@max_x]

in BC people with disabilities get $375 a month for rent. $375. In a place where rents cost upwards of $1500/month this is coercion towards death, no matter the circumstance.

[@warcimaga5583]

im a single parent and am disabled I have disabled children. my now 20 year old son with autism as living on his own and it kills me because he deserves so much better. my other son is 16 soon and is autistic with other issues trying to figure out who he is and my daughter.. my sweet baby is a pre teen. we are struggling so bad. and we matter. its time the Government sees that. meds are unaffordable. cancer treatment isnt there we get to just die undiagnosed. london Ontario is hell on earth. odsp is a joke.. I cant even afford shoe's for winter...

[@shellyslioneyes]

USA...same, etc our dogs get treated better, or even for free if they are suffering. Im sorry for you, your kids and me.

[@Aniela-qv2py]

Warcimaga.. I absolutely find HORRIFIC to suggest MAID instead of helping people... for instance, if the government would stop sending Money to ukraine, they could use that Money for people in Need in their own country... But I can't stop wondering why people won't stop birthing more children when they have problems... You have two children with autism and you had a third One??? That's Crazy, in my opinion. Government should help people in Need but people should also use their brain. Having children you can't afford to raise then demanding help, do you think it's Fair?

[@robwalton2007]

I live on ODSP in Ontario and work part time. Can attest to how much the provincial government makes people with disabilities suffer. I have been on it since 1995, back when it was called Family Benefits before the name was changed to ODSP. The program is a total joke, and the provincial government has proven time and time again they believe people with disabilities should be made to suffer and live in poverty. I get $1,228 per month to live on, plus $81 per month extra for Special Diet because I have Type 2 Diabetes. Guess what the Shelter portion of the cheque is? $522 a month! Yes, that's right, that's what Doug Ford expects a single person on ODSP to pay for rent - totally unrealistic! You cannot even rent a room in a family home for that! Most people on ODSP are usually having to take money from the Basic Needs portion of their cheque just to cover rent, because the Shelter portion is too low and unrealistic. The worst part is, if you work you get penalized- about 60-70% of the money you earn is taken off your ODSP cheque! So you can't really get ahead much even by working. And, some of the programs ODSP have are screwed up....ODSP Employment Supports is a perfect example. If you apply for and get it, you get funding to a outside career agency who gets funding to help the client find a job....sounds good, BUT the problem is the career agency is paid AFTER the client has been working for 8 weeks! So what happens is you get some lazy worker who brushes up your resume a little bit, and then they sit back and tell the client to go job hunting all over the place, and then the worker receives the government money while the CLIENT did 80% of the work finding their job without the worker using their connections, or giving the client on the job training to accomodate their disability. Why should a worker get paid to do what I can do by myself by going to a unemployment office, update my resume there and find work by myself?! NO WAY!! Sorry, but a guaranteed income may sound good, but it's NOT the answer! Especially when it would end the additional supports that programs like ODSP and Ontario Works have. What is REALLY NEEDED is REFORM....not only to the amount of funding that is given to clients each month, but how the programs are run. There is a LOT of waste, mismanagement and inefficiency with both these programs in how the programs are administered and run, and how clients are treated. It's about time we get rid of Fatty Ford and elect a government who actually understands and gets it!

[@shari9721]

Not just rent somehow that $522 is supposed to cover rent heat hydro water garbage sewer. I figure if I get a nice fridge box I can do it up real nice, maybe I will get really lucky and find double wide fridge box and just wander from place to place carrying it on my back like a damn turtle 🐢.

[@NeotericBedlam]

Crazy, they only allow us $636 to survive off of in New Brunswick yet ''Higgs' is in surplus. $705 is misleading/false reporting, try talking to the people whom are most affected. Most New Brunswickers who should be fully granted a full Disability Amount, at best get granted the 'Extended Needs Benefits' designation as a cost saving measure, which leaves us at no more that $636 per Month. Top that off with the rental situation, I've currently been on the waiting list for subsidized housing since the summer of 2009 when I was first diagnosed. At the time I was renting a Bachelor Apartment for $365 per month, I was forced out by the Landlord as I am on a fixed income. That same unit is now Renting at $800. Top that off with butchers like Seville or K2, the bigger the Landlord/Company the more corrupt the Management. The Office of the Rentalsman is a joke, Service NB has no training, want or ability to handle Rentalsman Issues. But if you somehow do get a chance to actually speak with someone, with first hand knowledge, I've painfully learned how corrupt their 'Higher Ups' truly are. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee to assist us with ending our lives as we remain ignored and financially unviable to be aloud to lead a live worth living... Thanks Cantada, you make us proud.

[@primmakinsofis614]

Expecting anything useful from politicians is like expecting to find a giraffe in Antarctica. Just remember this simple axiom: 99% of politicians are absolutely corrupt. The other 1% are probably corrupt.

[@NeotericBedlam]

Years ago, in 'Hitler's' Germany they euthanized everyone with disabilities or mental illness against their will. It only took 80 years for Cantada to realize that the trick is to make them believe it is actually their choice and now provide a toll free number. Isn't it great to be a Cantadian?

[@ravenwaves6785]

Our country discussed this and their solution was to make sure it was impossible for people to access MAD without a terminal illness and only a few months left. Frankly I am disgusted the answer has not been to improve life for those in poverty and living with disability. Not allowed to die, but free to suffer.

[@JennTrimpe]

Not 'assisted' or 'endorsed' to die. Really, in the end, we always have that choice.

[@davemcd9077]

legal actions really should be taken against government for being so nonchalant about peoples lives....this is outragious.

[@bradcanning875]

Crap. The problem isn't government. it's Conservative governments and voters who want tax cuts over humanity. It's doctors designating people "disability" when they aren't. As someone in a wheelchair I can tell you to just look at how few people in handicap parking are actually handicapped.

[@mrmedicinal]

As a patient who has qualified for the maid program, I can assure you it’s not a nonchalant progress. You need to have serious health issues and be approved by three doctors for the process. it is also a personal choice. The government is not forcing people to kill themselves. I totally agree that they need to give more money for those who are disabled, and unable to earn income.

[@Myles452]

@@mrmedicinalI agree with part but Trudeau is expanding to mental health and that’s not alright

[@mrmedicinal]

@@Myles452 so you're discriminating against people with mental illness. I think they deal with that enough already.

[@gemcami7243]

Why dont you look inwards at your role. Im not interested in leaving because of money. Im smart enough to use what i have well. I want to leave to get away from all you awful, stupid humans

[@SimpsonPattyCAKE]

This is hands down one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. The people need to make a stand, not the government. But the People need to make a stand fight once and for all for what people who can't fight need. The fact that this even exists as a program, outside of people within palliative care, should display the true morality within our government.

[@jordanschiebelbein4438]

im in calgary... i wanna start a protest or something like we did for covid restrictions... trudeau made so many new laws surrounding it but i do know alberta is still able to protest at least somewhat... we gotta do something. now.

[@conniel5221]

Why does baby bonus go up. To 600 bucks and more per child...but poor seniors. Don’t get an increase. ?

[@GreyOatmeal]

Need more slave workers and less useless eaters

[@kimberleyoliver8335]

Too bad seniors can’t have children 😅!

[@web3wizard381]

you lived during one of the best economic periods, got property, access to everything, while millenials are struggling to get a studio apt, and you still want more? typical boomer

[@kimberleyoliver8335]

@@web3wizard381 I’m Gen X and I was just kidding. We all need a break from the inflation in our society. Many seniors are struggling just like the rest of us and that includes the young generation and parents. Perhaps we need a universal income.

[@smarie3874]

I have a rare disease and I live in Alberta. The government’s official stance has been that they don’t treat my disease here. I’ve had 6 referrals refused in just the last 2 years. I have EDS/POTS/MCAD. I have to apply and pay for 3 months of non opioid pain relievers to have them covered. However, opioid pain relievers are completely covered….often at way higher doses than I need with no waiting period. None of my non pharmaceutical treatments for pain are covered (Physio, Chiro, massage, ect). I qualify for medically assisted death and know others in my community that have taken that road. We qualify for medically assisted death (it’s free). We do not qualify for medically assisted life.

[@backfat3247]

You hit the nail… truth😢😢😢😢😢😢….

[@dianau7528]

Father God... I am so sorry. I am just now finding out about all of this happening in canada. 😔💔😭

[@khanyi_zulu]

This made me cry 😭💔 I'm so sorry you're going through this. People with disabilities are a priority in my country and many other countries around the world, I don't know why the Canadian government is doing this. It's like they view disabled people as a burden and want to get rid of them as soon as possible. Shame on them!!! History will judge them!!!

[@ponderingCanuck]

@@khanyi_zulu that is exactly Trudeau's plan. He's evil.

[@ponderingCanuck]

This brought tears to my eyes. V it is absolute evil what other government is doing. They're putting taxes upon taxes, giving money and weapons to other countries, but don't have enough to give for our veterans or other vulnerable citizens. It is disgraceful. Makes me physically sick to my stomach.

[@VVVVVVV-Vi]

Instead of helping them to live, they are helping th to die? Wow

[@jrosten369]

Its right in plane sight. They are trying to get rid of the sick and weak in their society's

[@sebebalios1906]

Very heartbreaking and very angering! I get where there coming from! But no one under any circumstance unless terminally ill, should ever feel that the best option is assisted death, especially due to poverty. @Trudeau @Poiliere @CanadianParliament time to open eyes! We are all are human beings, disability is def not a choice! I just can't wrap my mind around how little our lives means to our global leaders, next there gona start evaluating the mentally ill to see who is eligible to murder, really! Shame 🇨🇦disgusting Shame!

[@mrmedicinal]

It’s not murder, the government is not holding a gun to a persons head to make the decision to apply for MAID. Also, changes are coming in 2023 to allow “the mentally ill” to apply also.

[@seraphim95]

It is technically not murder since any killing within the legal bounds of the government is simply an execution. However the ethics of this are really evil. Death should never be an option - life is a gift and we all will have to answer for how we used that gift. I understand that people suffer, but through suffering meaning can be found, if you would only choose to let that meaning in.

[@mrmedicinal]

@@seraphim95 Have you suffered every waking moment of your life for 28 years? Tell me how you "understand" how it makes me feel from high up on your ethical pedestal.

[@tracya.schneider7698]

This is exactly what is wrong in our world...

[@shardaybarber2131]

poverty is painful mentally, physically and emotionally

[@catster7139]

I can relate so much. I've been giving serious thought and even downloaded the application. I'm so torn between not wanting to live like this and not wanting to die. Both my wife and I are on ODSP and only get 1900 a month here in Toronto and it's not enough. We recently became victims of a fire where we lived for 20 years because of the landlords neglect of proper maintenance which caused an electrical fire in the basement of the restaurant which we lived above. He has placed us in a temp unit but now wants us to leave here so he can renovate and we are sure that he is trying to renovict us. We can't afford today's rent out there for another place and I know we can't survive the streets. As a Husband, Father and man I feel useless and a failure. Myself suffer from Mental Health issues from a very bad childhood (sexual and physical) as well as physical issues with my back (severe degeneration) and hips as well as COPD . It's not right how our Country is failing us. It really isn't. I can't believe our own Country does this to people. This is not the Canada I imagined and worked for that would turn around and treat it's people like trash.

[@janeclayton151]

heart breaking, our priorities are wrong. So sorry for what you are going through.

[@lionofjudahlambofgod9132]

It may not mean anything to you now but I will pray for you man. I am sorry.

[@catster7139]

@@lionofjudahlambofgod9132 Thank You. We could use all the prayers and help we can get. God Bless

[@Chillmer91]

Wow I’m so sorry. Praying for you! And your family too

[@dollz2030]

Please 🙏 and keep faith. We must endure though the devil tries to destroy God and Jesus gives us strength

[@CoinCapo]

I’m in the same position in America. I am stuck in a never ending cycle of poverty and pain. Hopelessness. I have cried out for help so many many many times and it will just never come. And this government does nothing to help. When I get a leg up, I was tboned bye another car. I lost my vehicle. Then the state took my liscence and told me I had to carry a special insurance that I cannot afford. I live off $600 in North port fl, where people that do not make more than $135,000 a year can afford to live. I can’t feed myself. I am diabetic so I can only afford the cheapest food and it’s all carbs so I’m constantly sick. I have NO FAMILY THAT WILL HELP ME. I CANNOT feed my dogs. I don’t know how I’m ever going to get a vehicle on the road. I don’t want to live like this anymore. I can’t. I haven’t smiled in a decade. I am fighting a loosing battle and all I want is to not be alone. But here I am, 3 am, in a pitch black room, hungry, in pain, w swollen legs from diabetes, and I’m only 36. Alone, w only the thoughts of being happy again. Everytime I go to sleep I see everything I long for. Love, happiness, family, prosperity. But then I wake back up in this war zone. My house is totally destroyed by hurricane Ian and it’s been 6 months w no help from fema, or the government. Or from governor desantis. I don’t even have a $1 to get clean water. It’s been 3 weeks w no clean water. I just want this to end. I’m not looking for sympathy. Maybe a little understanding of what happens when you allow 35 people in the US ( that’s 35 of the richest men in the USA) to own more wealth then 4,000,000,000 ( That’s billion) across the world. Could u imagine a world where 35 people outweigh the needs of 4,000,000,000 billion? Is that a world anyone wants to live in? It’ll never change

[@Geared84]

People that abuse disability should be a shamed for their laziness. But This is Like the Nazi Gas Chambers, but more humane I guess. Its absolutely disgusting.

[@JennTrimpe]

It's not humane. It is simply more covertly accomplished inhumanity. The long, drawn out nature of dying this way is actually worse: It is the illusion of being cared for - the illusion of a sustainable life.

[@orbazel]

This just shows that if Hitler had just put a positive, progressive and empathic spin on what he was trying to achieve, it would have been totally accepted in 21st century Canada.

[@shauncameron8390]

The funny thing is Hitler was a progressive.

[@phoenixtoash2396]

And now a resident of the USA. So you'll see all the white race doing this to the poor and other races and women ... And gays. Now. They will make it legal for me. With their hate.

[@bgardner312]

My husband and I live in Ontario, my husband was born with a eye disease that now has left him completely blind. We live off of his disability check solely since I became disabled in 2018. As awful as MAID is, it still will be less painful then starving to death or freezing to death sleeping in the dumpster out behind our building.

[@juliaharbeck774]

Rich governments deliberately make you so poor that this looks like a viable obtion while they spend your tax dollars to live high on the hog. Don't let them kill you, change the system is the only thing we can do. We out number them.

[@nmc1859]

But a society should care for their weak and sick. Otherwise, it is just a jungle

[@cest_what]

@@nmc1859 Take another long look at the world today....sadly, it already is a jungle.

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

God loves and send his only son Jesus to die on the cross for you. There are many churches who give out free food and clothes. John 3:16-21 ESV - "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”"

[@domenica7650]

I can not express how sorry I am in words. Killing oneself is not as dificult as people think. But not beeing able to protect your partner is just another dimension of cruel.

[@GHOST-RIP-RECORDINGS]

I’m on disability at 24 the poverty is awful for us with disabilities you can’t live off 1300 and have a wonderful life

[@JustinSmith-kn9ef]

Sorry to hear from J in the Uk

[@lovejoylynn2]

Can you find a roomste to help share rent? A seminary student maybe?

[@cdub5072]

We could have ended Homelessness in America with all the cash we sent to Ukraine.

[@JennTrimpe]

We couldn't actually, because the allocation would be poorly executed. Or purposefully mishandled.

[@travelinglight4656]

If someone wants to leave, that's their freedom to do so. It's horrible that someone who doesn't know your pain shames you for wanting out.

[@anonymous1297]

Humanity is so hopelessly depraved. We all deserve to die.

[@NoReplyAsset]

*rich people, not humanity. the 1% is at fault.

[@shauncameron8390]

@@NoReplyAsset Yes humanity as a whole. The 99% are every bit as depraved. Hence the higher crime.

[@av8tor261]

Disabled Canadians should sneak into the States and cross back into Canada at Roxham Road for better care and more money.

[@ijeomableu5316]

Please how can I send money to her??? How can I reach out to her??? I need to know please. I am so angry at the Canadian government. This practice is evil

[@ChinchillaBONK]

Although my country has not legalised euthanasia, this is disconcerting not just for future of humanity but on a personal basis as well. I would like to have some hope for the future... But being poor and having medical problems has constantly made me contemplate jumping out the window... I try my best on the financial side but the health issues can really be a burden. Multiple tumours extracted because of Li-Frameni Syndrome. High blood pressure, essential thrombocytopenia, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis; has constantly made me feel very lethargic with low energy, constant daily back pain and joint pain, itchy skin, etc, can take its toll. And I am just 40 years old... How bad will things be later? Cancer at the moment is my likely life-taker, can I afford more hospital stays and treatments? I always wondered why I am born and ask God if I am a joke to him.

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

God cares for you and wants you to talk to him personally and have a relationship with him. God made hundreds of promises for us so that we know that we can trust God and give him control in our life. Jesus loves and died for you on the cross. God wouldn't want you to give up, just like God would never want me to give up. John 3:16-21 ESV - "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”"

[@manicmode]

We have sadistic insane humans. Life is not a gift!

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

@@manicmode Life is a gift from God. You are a gift from God

[@Chillmer91]

This is actually terrifying, I can’t imagine people dealing with depression similar to what I do having access to this! I don’t think this is appropriate at all and it’s DEFINITELY not appropriate for mental illness… this world is headed for DARK TIMES

[@MyName-tb9oz]

Right? "Oh, you have depression? Would you like to try assisted suicid@? It might be just the thing for you!" It's almost as bad as the parents giving their small children hormone blockers because some psychopath convinced a small child that they aren't really the sex they thought they were and that it might be fun to try being something else. You may as well tell them they can be a kitty if they want. Of course, they get told that they're going to be destroyed by those drugs and that they're making a decision that is going to last for the rest of their life. As if a kid can understand the consequences of such a decision. No more than someone with a severe mental illness can see any life beyond their current pain. Particularly not when there is no one interested in helping deal with societally-induced mental illness. And in the current society you have to be pretty amazingly tough not to end up pretty screwed up.

[@sonicleaves]

They start like this and end up targeting whoever they want as "mentally ill." Anyone with a brain can see this.

[@DavidHalverson]

Canadian government (ie., Liberal Party of Canada, Progressive Conservatives of Canada, New Democratic Party of Canada, and The Bloc Quebecois) has opted to use medically assisted death as a means of reducing the over-population of long-term disability and individuals living on government subsidy.

[@M_SC]

No it hasn’t. I hate conservatives but even they don’t plot like this.

[@M_SC]

Also, health care is provincial

[@MrJustLes]

@1 AB The NDP also voted against Bill C-7. It was the Liberals and the Bloc that voted for it.

[@primmakinsofis614]

@@M_SC Delivered by the provinces, but funded to a considerable degree by the federal government.

[@holeindanssock156]

1:50 Bruh her daughters disabled... Sending love your way ladies. Stay strong! ❤️

[@klj.3947]

As a disabled Canadian, I don't feel there is a choice. Governments talk fed or provincial never the poverty inflicted on ALL levels. Currently I am forced to live in squalor or go homeless living in Ontario. Rents are easy $1200./mth, my pittance is $1228. The wait for affordable housing is at least 10 yrs. The decades of mental abuse caused by legislated poverty make it clear to me, Canadians are NOT compassionate, disabled are not equal or even worthy of life. We have been provided only death, we will be punished until we make that choice. The governments of Canada ignored the United Nations plea to stop the abuse by poverty on disabled BEFORE COVID ever started. Canadian governments have ignored the disabled to death since. Oh Canada, my deadly native land.

[@acadian71]

They care more about illegal migrants then Canadians who are suffering and need help. The goverenment just acts like they are not there.

[@thomasnguyen6144]

Saying that disabled people are a burden to society is ableist.

[@familychanum8238]

Blame governments in the USA and Canada, allowing CEO to not raise minimum wages. This is the aftermath.

[@shauncameron8390]

LOL. Minimum wage is the government's responsibility, not the CEO's.

[@LillianAdamson]

I hear you. I have been disabled for years. This is the truth in Canada. This is legislated poverty. We are dying here, needlessly, for a long time.

[@dragonspeaks5973]

this month i received 270 from ODSP. they claim my boyfriend/family should help me instead. ODSP wants us to seek assisted suicide, it’s clear as day. i’m tired of being a financial liability on my family just for being disabled, and even looked into assisted suicide for my self.

[@nightrise45]

I hope that they will give you the money you and other disabled folk so desperately need

[@kelseyobrien2360]

Your life has so much value. Please know that. You are here for a purpose. You can be a blessing to your family. Don't give up ❤️

[@melanieannette3781]

Your life has value because it is created by God, not bestowed upon you by the government. I think maybe they’re hoping people give up by refusing to help. Takes fewer resources to kill a person, I guess. I will pray for your situation to improve.

[@JohnSmith-gc7dp]

Cruel and unusual government

[@av8tor261]

It's in the governments best interest for the disabled and elderly to die. Less payments for the government to make. I'm in the same boat as Les. I went from disabled to old at 65 an receive less $ each month. I'm considering MAID over homelessness.

[@MrJustLes]

That is where I am at, and I'm the one in the article.

[@av8tor261]

@@MrJustLes Hi Les. Getting old is a wind fall for the government. I took a big hit (decreased income) going from CPPD to CPP. I'm still disabled, just older. The cost of basic survival keeps going up and our income keeps going down. I'll take the MAID option before going out to live behind the dumpster. At least I can die in a warm place, in a bed rather then on the ground in an ally. I don't have enough money for a long term care facility. Seems the government has no money for Canadians that contributed to this country by hard work and contributing to UIC and CPP. I'm tired of being disabled and sick. I just want to go to sleep.....peacefully. God bless you Les.

[@palalaska9]

If MAID was available to me, I would deeply consider it. Struggling with all the basics, pain and isolation is torture. Waiting for 40 below zero temps and maybe just sitting outside to freeze, MAID is at least monitored. I am so tired of waiting to die without the ways and means to live.

[@kimberlythomas2296]

These people need to be loved and healed but not killed! Families are failing their loved ones 😢

[@heatherjones9773]

Thank you Global News, do you think you could get your staff in Alberta to do this story, or does global only care about New Brunswick, Ontario and BC???

[@MrJustLes]

They were in Medicine Hat.

[@charlenebeard4123]

This is immoral and tragic

[@kiddkuru]

She doesn’t want to die. She’s wearing a mask

[@ethelandwally4635]

It is an impossible situation all over the country. Maid has its benefits but it shouldnt be to escape poverty. Our country is broken and our most vulnerable are being impacted first. I dont know how it can be changed.

[@tmacmac-ec2ut]

MAID HAS NO BENEFITS ITS MURDER PERIOD

[@mrmedicinal]

MAID cannot be used to escape poverty

[@MrJustLes]

@@mrmedicinal it is...

[@mrmedicinal]

@@MrJustLes can you show me under the maid program where it states that you’ll qualify if you are poor? I qualify and it wasn’t as easy as everyone is making it sound like.

[@mrmedicinal]

@@MrJustLes no luck finding that in the guidelines eh Les?

[@nutterbutter865]

I’m praying for you all. I pray that God gives you strength and lifts you above the pain of this world. He came to me when all the doctors shut the door in my face. I have chronic pain too and it’s disgusting how once something turns chronic the medical abuse starts. I’ve been left sobbing by bully doctors just wanting to antagonize me, almost killed me. The evil of this world wants to take as many people down as possible. Please feel my love to you all from my soul. I’ve never seen you all but I love you and I feel your pain as if it’s my own. You are not alone, you are part of something much bigger. We must band together and fight this evil and not give in. God please give these people the strength to keep fighting in your name! Justice always wins!

[@shellyslioneyes]

You cant say "chronic pain" in USA or they say you are "drug seeking"

[@ceasarsaran8573]

I really, really hate socialized medicine so much after seeing this. Imagine we pay taxes for this.

[@shellyslioneyes]

Now you see why those of us with no choice feel like we are a burden to you taxpayers, although I did pay taxes in the USA but was short 2 work credits. I'd love to have this option.

[@preciouschaoslives]

Godlessness Canadians will be the death of our humanity and country. Shame to all the hateful and judgmental comments. God bless and R.I.P 🙏 God loves all his children even when his children won't love each other. ❤

[@phoenixtoash2396]

Not everyone endures Christian version of love. Which in my opinion is pure hate. So there is that. Don't speak for God.

[@preciouschaoslives]

@@phoenixtoash2396 I'm not Christian and the only hatred is coming from you demon spawn. Sit down and be quiet, you are embarrassing yourself.😂

[@dianahamilton322]

Wish government and their staff were more empathetic. How they can turn a blind eye to so many suffering so they have to choose death over life. How do they sleep at night.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

Doctors are just as bad.

[@aj9969]

The entire western culture has decayed to prioritize individualism over community.. Promiscuity, sky high divorce rates, single mothers and damaged children.. Canada is just a natural consequence.. When people are trained to prioritize their personal happiness over the happiness of their family, they will eventually end up losing empathy for others.. Breaking the family unit will end up breaking societies.