Hi. disabled person here. I can throw every government in Canada farther than I trust them when it comes to actually maintaining my standard of living. And I've lived through my own government doing exactly that.
At best, government support like UBI or disability payments is trauma. You're better off doing for yourself as much as you're able.
Sure they can. Just not in Ottawa.
I will die in my rent controlled living room. Mostly because I can't afford to move out.
Most of the people complaining probably know someone who did. Picture, if you will.
Employer hires someone for cheaper. Doesn't need to be an immigrant, but for the sake of what we're discussing, assume it is.
Employer gradually reduces the hours of a current employee for pick your reason. Likely current employee is part-time because they have few protections.
Current employee's hours reach 0.
Current employee quits because well, they're not getting hours.
That employee has successfully been replaced. Legally.
You saying people are never fired and replaced with someone will accept less?
Ah, but that's where you're incorrect. If it's still culturally appropriate to fat shame someone for a legitimate medical issue, then doctors who do that are de facto not better than the doctors we have here. And I've had to report a doctor from Iraq on someone else's behalf who's been practicing here since 2024 for exactly that reason.
Nope, but they almost certainly took someone else's. When my job goes it's likely going to AI.
Garbage in, garbage out. Change the candidates, then change the system.
A lifted truck is still cheaper than investing in your own franchise. I looked into it because the current job market is a joke. And I can't even drive a lifted truck so that'd be wasting my money.
Yes, I have a job. I couldn't afford a lifted truck even if I could drive one. That's how I know I can't afford to invest in a franchise.
No, it hasn't. I can choose to leave my current apartment and move somewhere else whenever I please. It will almost certainly cost me more, but that's my choice. That is a far cry from being told "you will live here now". Government housing does that second thing. Ask anyone who's ever tried to get into the current government housing. You go where you're told and you like it.
Hampson, accompanied by a Marketplace producer, visited one Greater Toronto Area location for A&W, McDonald's, Thai Express, Tim Hortons and Wendy's to document his experience as a customer with a disability.
He started each trip with a simple question: Do you have a braille menu?
None of the locations he visited could provide one.
"I would have liked to have at least found one that had a braille menu," he said. "It's something that needs to be improved upon."
I mean, as someone who is also blind... it's a fast food restaurant. Most of those places you're not even sitting at a table with a menu. Personally and I mean this could just be me, that's what my phone's for.
Considering Ontario in particular has been underfunding the training of new medical professionals, I'd advocate for that over bringing in a doctor from a country who's education standards don't align. We don't need more Uber drivers.
So they're the separatist version of the NDP, in other words.
Also: With something like 28% of the vote I don't know that I'd call what the BQ has a mandate.