Finally!

Some Help For Seniors!

May 12, 2020

After almost 2 solid months in solitary confinement basically, and having to order everything online or by phone and thus be forced to pay for those purchases using a credit card, they're getting some relief from the government. But don't get your hopes up too high, because it's a one time payment. If, this continues for another 6 months or a year, we may get more help apparently. So it looks like this one time payment has to cover the last 2 months expenses and maybe the next 6 as well. So with that in mind you might look at it and go "that's all we get?". Especially if you have credit card interest rate charges that basically comes out to that much already, which is quite feasible given the interest rate on credit cards these days. I think the way to fix that is to basically pepper your MPs ( I mean annoy the living daylights out of them) with emails demanding more help than that, from the gov't. Anyhow here's the little bit of good news I have for seniors today: 

Seniors to receive up to $500 in federal government aid to help cope with COVID-19  For more details you'll have to read the actual story itself.

Contact a Member of Parliament

Contact a Member of Parliament  You can search for their email addresses by using this Member of Parliament search:

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Or alternatively you can write a good old fashion letter and mail it off to them via Canada Post - no stamp required as mentioned here:

Mail may be sent postage-free to any Member of Parliament at the following address:

• [Name of Member of Parliament]
• House of Commons
• Ottawa, Ontario
• Canada
• K1A 0A6

So let them know your frustrations about being kept inside forever and a year, and how you feel about it and what you personally think it's worth to you in compensation. Demand that they add more to financial help than they did, because that barely covers the costs up until now and if it continues on you'll need regular compensation to cover all your costs (and you can iterate those costs to them - let them know just how much extra this solitary confinement is costing you). Because that's the only way I can see the seniors getting any more help than this really for the foreseeable future and we all know that, that's not going to cut it. So we have to collectively stand up for ourselves and bombard them with email and postal mail to let them know how we feel and what we want. I already wrote to my MP awhile back when he was busy gloating over the $5 & $7 delivery fees they were picking up for the seniors, in a flyer he sends out periodically. Never heard back from the jerk though, so obviously he doesn't care. Maybe he will when he gets his ash booted out of office and the cushy job he has doing SFA for his constituents while collecting a salary worth 10 years of a seniors pension, not to mention the pension he'll get when he finally does leave (whether that's because he's booted out or he retires).  Anyhow, I personally think, it's time we let them know that we've had enough of their house arrest and being treated like we don't matter or worse don't exist.