Bobby Giles
People with disabilities and advocates were elated to see Bill C-22, a bill that would create a national disability benefit, passed unanimously in parliament last summer. Many who cheered on the bill are now concerned the benefit won’t receive enough money to make a real difference to people with disabilities., who receives provincial disability support payments, says a federal top-up payment would allow him the financial freedom to choose his preferred type of milk.
"The system is broken," Giles said on Friday at the Daily Bread Food Bank, in Toronto's west end. "Stable funding for people with disabilities will help curb the food bank usage which is at an all time high … so many people have to choose between paying for rent and food." Across the country, about a million people are reliant on inadequate provincial disability benefits programs, he says.
"They managed our expectations. They said, 'Listen, we are talking about a federal deficit. We need to be thinking at a time of higher interest rates and the cost to service that debt.' The typical commentary that we get around austerity." It is common for governments not to answer questions about specific funding allocations before the budget is introduced.
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