This post is going to be very different from any other post I have written. because I can't leave this earth without speaking my truth. And that truth is Ontario and Canada are decling so badly that people in the system are DYING. But noone sees or cares.
Over the past year while researching every possible way I can to excape poverty and the 'system' I discovered how badly Ontario is declining.
And here is the problem. If you are middle class or above you won't see it like we do down here. And that is because for now,... you are not as effected as we are. The middle class are starting to see the rise in groceries and other 'smaller' things happening that are forcing everyday Canadians to struggle. Right now it's not so bad for the middle class. They are feeling the pinch, but they are not suffering. And because they are not suffering, they are not 'seeing' what is happening to our beloved Country of Canada.
It started with the people on the bottom. Me. People on OW (Ontario Works) and ODSP (Ontario Disability) have been thrown away and left to cope on their own when they dont' even have HALF of what they need. The benefit payout is so low people are choosing to DIE rather than suffer. And I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
I have been on the internet for days now trying to solve homelessness and poverty for myself. They say you dont' get ahead unless you try. And I have been trying for years now but just getting wack-a-moled every time I get my nose above the deep waters of oppresion. And what I have discovered is DISGUSTING.
Ontario and Canada have disolved a lot of the systems that were set up years ago to help the retired, the disabled and the poor. BUT WHERE HAVE THESE POLICIES AND SYSTEMS GONE???? They have been quietly and secretly removed and the general public is not aware. So now if your poor or disabled in Ontario ALL you have is OW and ODSP and the charity of others. THAT IS NOT ENOUGH and we are struggling,... no,.... SUFFERING.
Now here is where I am going to be hated. I have discovered where a lot of the governemtn money is going and it's IMMIGRANTS. I am not racist. I have coloured people in my family. I am a christian that believes every soul is precios no matter the colour of your skin or where you live. So it's not the colour of the skin of these folks ~ it's the blatant THEFT of them getting OUR money to survive. THEY are claiming our ODSP and OW and that leaves not enough for the CANADIAN born and bred left over. So immigrants are taking the same benefits we need and draining the benefit.
THEN,... I see that immigrants are running all the government offices in Canada. Infact I had a IMMIGRANT tell me I was not getting the Canadian Disability benefit (due to one photo copy I couldnt' get). It is an immigrant that decided if I get a benefit or not.
It's not even the immigrants I'm upset with. Honestly? They are just people like you and me trying to better their lives. THEY too, deserve a good life. The problem is CANADA IS FULL!!!!!! Our government has got to crack down on giving away PRECIOUS benefits to immigrants when born and raised here in Canada folk are being told NO -you can't get that benefit.
I have lived the past 5 years or so under the regime of Ontario Housing and ODSP. I have been threatened with eviction on NUMEROUS occasions over LITTLE things that could have been resolved if they just picked up the phone and TALKED to me, rather than just their go to, which is PUNISH THEM!! They did bad? They get an threat of eviciton. We dont care what you did or even if you really did it,... we have to keep you 'animals' in line. And to do that, we threaten to kick you out on to the street (and in my case 2 weeks before Christmas!!) and they dont' even bat an eye or feel bad. It's their JOB!!!!!! Leaving us to feel like we dont' even belong in our own country and if we dont behave we will be living under a bridge.
Yet,... look up "Immigration fatigue in Canada" and with all the bad behaviour (although to be fair,... bad behaviour is never limited to the colour of people's skin, sadly it's a universaly theme) - infact ILLEGAL disgusting behaviour of immigrants has been flooding the internet. But Canada is too afraid to punish them so they run wild. (I am deadly serious - the stuff immigrants get away with is immoral and disgusting) BUT THEY DONT' GET THREATENED WITH EVICITON OR HAVE THEIR BENEFIT TAKEN AWAY!!!! They all get away with it as Canada is afraid of them. It is proven over and over again on cop videos where RCMP and cops SIDE WITH THE IMMIGRANT even when they are blatantly in the wrong. In one case, A vancouver woman was charged trying to protect herself against immigrant men harrassing her. SHE lost her cool and used a racial slur and got charged while the men walked away free. And this is happening ALL OVER CANADA. Please, I encourage you to look all of this up. I didn't believe it. I thought Canada was a great country and noone would treat their own citizens badly. But it's TRUE. PLEASE look it up!!!!
So I sit here today,... suicidal. Becasue I can't get out of the system. Even with my settlement money of $*******.** I STILL can't escape the system. Thats ridiculous!!! But because I am POOR on ODSP - I am discriminated against as most folk on ODSP can't afford to pay their rent so landlords won't rent to us. And in my case,... even with this money in my bank account - NOONE WILL RENT TO ME.
This tells me that the only escape for me is to BUY property. But I dont' have enough to BUY. Only to rent. Even with money in the bank I am seen as poor, so noone will rent to me. It makes me feel invisable.
But back to the decline of Ontario. Our benefits and systems have disappeared. Right now we are imploding. Grocery prices rising,... no affordable housing,... people having to work 2 jobs just to pay a mortgage. No doctors,... There is no 'dream' here in Canada anymore. Our government has ruined us and we are immploding.
As a person who grew up in the sixties and seventies, my father had a 40 hour a week job. He owned his own home. My mother was able to stay home with us kids. We went on a few vacations a year. We were very middle class comfy.
Noone has THAT anymore in Canada,....
I have been researching how to escape 'the system' for years now. And I have learned a horrible hard truth. There is no escaping as Canada has drained all of the resources the poor and disabled relied on. They are gone.
People on ODSP get $1408 a month. Although OW is decided by your situation, anyone on it will tell you THEY CANNOT FEED THEIR CHILDREN OR KEEP A ROOF OVER THEIR FAMILIES HEADS. I encourage you to go and watch YouTube or TikToks on this. Normal folk on ODSP and OW fed up and suffering and panicing as they have no way to survive.
Where are the affordable homes? Where are our benefits? Why are we paying taxes on top of taxes? Why are there no doctors? From what I have heard from financial podcasts I listen to, the answer is this,...
Canada is running out of money. Our government over the past 20 years has SQUANDERED it!!
But here is where I am angry. Even though us 'poor' have been suffering for years,... we have been ignored. The basic attitude from society here is "Just shut up and be grateful for what you do get". And go be out of sight. Noone wants to see the homeless.
My prediction is,... that there will NEVER be change until the rich and middle class are effected as well. AND THAT DAY IS CLOSER THAN THEY THINK.
But the sad part is, by the time the rest of Canada wakes up???? It will be too late. Most of us poor will have succomed to the grouling lifestyle or commit suicide to avoid homelessness. For us,... life was lost years ago. The middle class and rich just turned their heads away so they wouldn't have to see it. (Don't believe it? Try being homeless. "Move along you can't stay here,...") Us down here? We didn't get that option. We were forced to live it. We can't turn our heads away.
I wonder if the middle class - forced to suffer through the decline of Canada - will finally admit they threw the poor away and left us to rot on our own. Not only that,... you made it so difficult for us with all your rules and regulations and applications and re-newals every year (just to humiliatingly prove you are suffering,...)
I find this inhumane and more to the point - unnecessary.
So when I commit suicide Canada,... this is why. But will you care? No. Infact thats one less benefit you have to pay,...
In Canada, if your are poor or disabled you WILL NOT SURVIVE.
If you live on OW or ODSP you are miserable just struggling to survive ~ if your surviving at all.
My choices here are suffer or die. And right now life is so miserable I am choosing DEATH.
Our premier of Ontario was caught saying: They are just "healthy younger ppl sitting on the couch watching the Flintstones"
Does this sound like a man who is taking care of it's vulnerable??? NO,... infact he is saying we aren't disabled at all - just faking. This is not a leader.
Wake up Canada!!!!!! Your country is falling apart and you can't even see it.
I'm not sticking around to be poor and homeless and invisable,...
FUCK THAT
Once my will is complete I am out of here!!!!!!!
Canada is NOT the country I grew up in
