A disabled Canadian says she receives her pension, goes to the food bank every month, gets roughly one week of food, and then has to ask strangers for help just to make it through the rest of the month.
Why in the hell are we tolerating this?
Not just from government. From ourselves.
Somewhere along the way, Canadians became accustomed to seeing our own elderly, disabled, veterans, working poor and families lining up at food banks, struggling with rent and begging strangers online for groceries.
And we just… accepted it.
At the same time, Canada continues making enormous financial commitments to immigration, refugee resettlement and newcomer settlement services.
Perhaps the question is why a country wealthy enough to continually make new commitments has normalized a system in which its own citizens cannot afford the necessities of life.
When did food banks become an acceptable extension of government social policy?
When did watching disabled Canadians beg strangers for groceries become normal?
Why in the hell are we allowing our government to get away with this?
I’m boiling mad.
The depression is winning today. I’m so tired of struggling. I’m disabled & on a pension. Every month I go to the food bank & get one weeks of food. Then I have to degrade myself by begging the public/strangers to help support me. I watch while our government gives millions..