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1/2 🧵 From @aodaalliance: "Anatomy of a Betrayal of People with Disabilities who Languish in Poverty We learned extremely troubling news from the April, 2024 federal budget. Here are five illustrations of this. First and worst, the maximum that people with disabilities can receive in a year from the Canada Disability Benefit is $2,400. That is a paltry $200 per month or around $6 per day. In combination with provincial disability benefits like ODSP, this will not lift many, if any, recipients out of poverty. This flatly contradicts the clear, strong commitment that the minister then responsible for Bill C-22, Carla Qualtrough, repeated at each of her major speeches in Parliament about the Canada Disability Benefit in 2022 and 2023: During her speech in support of her bill during the first day of Second Reading debates in the House of Commons on September 20, 2022, Minister Qualtrough said: “Today, I begin with the following declaration: in Canada, no person with a disability should live in poverty.” When she made her major speech in support of the bill during Third reading debates in the House of Commons on February 1, 2023, she pledged: “When I stood in the House to debate this bill at second reading, I declared that in Canada no person with a disability should live in poverty.” When she spoke in support of the bill at a Senate Standing Committee on March 22, 2023, she promised it again: “When I stood in the House of Commons to debate this bill on Second Reading, I declared that in Canada, no person with a disability should live in poverty.” On March 22, 2023, when speaking to a Senate Standing Committee, then federal Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough reinforced these expectations. She described the proposed Canada Disability Benefit and the work to pass it in Parliament as “a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the lives of persons with disabilities in Canada, and many people are counting on us.” Yet $200 per month will not materially reduce the number of working-age people with disabilities who live in poverty. This breaks the Trudeau Government’s pledge in the Senate, voiced by the bill’s Senate sponsor Senator Brent Cotter, on February 9, 2023: “Overall, with the implementation of this bill, we will be able to dramatically reduce the number of working-age Canadians living in poverty.” The Budget estimates that some 600,000 people with disabilities will be eligible for this benefit. This appears to fall well below the number of working age people with disabilities in Canada who now live below the poverty line. As we forewarned in 2022 and 2023, the bill also leaves out the many people with disabilities who are living in poverty but are older than working age. Disproportionately, people with disabilities are older. Disability poverty does not end at 65. Second, the Budget reveals that the Federal Government is going to wait as long as it can before it proclaims Bill C-22 in force. The bill automatically comes into force one year after it received Royal Assent, unless the Federal Government proclaims it in force sooner. The Budget makes it clear that the Trudeau Government is planning to wait out the year. Even after that year is up, the Government plans to take another year before it starts paying out the Canada Disability Benefit in order to create regulations. aodaalliance.org/whats-new/2… #canadadisabilitybenefit #budget2024 #cdnpoli #canpoli #disabilitytwitter #pwd #eia #aas #odsp #aish