On the same day that the federal government decided to move the capital gains tax to its own bill outside of Budget 2024 so its debate won’t hold up the budget vote – but no such exception was made for the outrageously insufficient Canada Disability Benefit
Check out Jacobin magazine’s new article, The Canadian State is Euthanizing its Poor and Disabled. Author David Moscrop notes that “[i]n the absence of a robust welfare state, and in the face of structural poverty and discrimination, particularly toward disabled people, there is no world in which the MAiD program can be understood to be “progressive.”
Following the federal NDP’s failure to hold Trudeau’s government to account for leaving disabled people to coercion to “choose” medically assisted suicide, the Liberals confirmed today that details on the capital gains tax (formerly included in Budget 2024) will be worked out in future.
No such provision has been made re the Canada Disability Benefit, despite disabled folks and activists begging for this.
And lastly, astroturf/working peoples’ X/Twitter is going heavy on the disabled exploitation and genocide apologia today, siding with disabled people targeted for unpaid sheltered workshop positions that pay in “confidence”. Like this Giant Tiger store, that is not paying disabled workers but whose manager confirms the free labor warms their heart.
Very sad to have working people defending this before realizing that exploited disabled retail workers, whose work is valuable enough to recruit but not pay for, will be used as an excuse for no longer paying ANY retail workers.
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