The government would rather pay to end a disabled person's life than pay enough for them to live it. Let that sink in. In Ontario, a single person on ODSP receives a maximum of 1,308 dollars a month. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Toronto is well over 2,000 dollars. In Ottawa, it is over 1,900 dollars. Even in smaller towns across the province, it is nearly impossible to find a room for under 800 dollars. After rent, people are expected to survive on a few dollars a day for food, medication, and basic hygiene. We are actively legislating people into starvation. At the exact same time, Canada has expanded its Medical Assistance in Dying laws. We now have documented cases of Canadians applying for MAiD not because their medical conditions are untreatable, but because they cannot afford the cost of living. They are choosing death because the state refuses to provide adequate housing and income support. The Canada Disability Benefit was supposed to fix this. Instead, the federal rollout has been widely criticized by disability justice advocates as an insulting pittance that fails to lift people above the poverty line, with clawbacks and bureaucratic hoops that make it inaccessible to many who need it most. This is not a broken system. It is a system working exactly as intended. It treats disabled human beings as a financial burden to be managed and minimized. If you are able-bodied, remember that disability is the only marginalized group anyone can become a member of at any moment. An illness, an accident, or just aging is all it takes. If that happens to you, this is the safety net waiting to catch you. Stop looking away. A person's right to live should matter more than balancing a provincial or federal budget. The only reason this eugenic nightmare is still going on is because we as a society allow it, pre-consenting to our own abuse as disability is a part of the human lifecycle