Seniors Minister Kamal Khera told a Senate committee in late February that seniors experiencing dire financial hardship would see a lump-sum repayment of their lost GIS benefits in March—but there was no communication that affected seniors would have to contact their MPs’ offices before Feb. 28 to get it, writes Kathleen Finlay.Nothing has lifted the curtain on the most vulnerable in Canada like the pandemic.
First Nations populations, racialized communities, victims of opioid dependence, women facing intimate partner abuse, people living with emotional and physical disabilities and low-income seniors are among those who had a very hard time getting the support they needed before the arrival of COVID-19. But the fallout from the virus added so much more to the hardship many faced, and because of that, we now have a high-definition portrait of the lives of the powerless that had not been seen before.
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