does this government think that we are going to just disappear because they do not negotiate with us?
unfortunately, they are not totally wrong....

Definitions of disability fall in a spectrum between two extremes, one that puts the disability INSIDE the body/mind of the person labelled as "disabled" (medical definition) and one that puts it OUTSIDE this person and is regarded as the result of interactions between this person and their context (social definition). The current trend, internationally, federally with Bill C-81 and at our Ontario Human Rigth Commission, is to move away from medical definitions and closer to the purely social view of disability. ODSP wants to do the opposite and limit disability to "severe and prolonged impairment". that would be totally fine in a society where there is true income security, such as through a Basic Income at least at poverty line level.

narrowing down the definition of disability is a masked reduction of expenses by limiting access to ODSP. those most at risk of exclusion are people with disabilities who can work part-time or episodically, including people living with what is called invisible or episodic disability such as MS, cancer, mental health diagnoses, HIV, etc. when excluded these people will have to live on the abysmally inappropriate OW system. Exemple: an ODSP recipient who can work for $700/month at the moment, lives with a total of $1,619/month. If excluded from ODSP, they will have to live with $1,133. how low can we go? The Ontario Poverty Line is at $1,976/month.....