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‘I may end up in tears telling my story’: How a former MPP and Toronto city councillor found himself living in a homeless shelter (www.thestar.com)

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[–] Showroom7561 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Berardinetti sleeps next to doctors, nurses and other lawyers some nights.

This is so fucking maddening. We have people who are hoarding hundreds of billions of dollars being the worst type of human beings, and we have to rely on luck to survive, even if you are a benefit to society?

Life would be easier, Berardinetti said, if it wasn’t for the Mike Harris government, which got rid of the lifetime pension plan for MPPs in 1995

A spokesperson for Premier Doug Ford’s office told the Star his government will not be reinstating the pension plan either.

Not surprising. And voters think that Ford, or any Conservative Government, is going to help them?

I really hope that Mr. Berardinetti has a brighter future, and it makes me sick that this has even happened to him.

[–] nik282000 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No politician should get a lifetime pension in a country with failing healthcare, unaffordable housing and unchecked corporate gouging.

[–] Showroom7561 5 points 2 months ago

We can't punish disabled elderly because voters keep choosing Conservative governments, who have no interest in making our lives better.

Nobody should be forced to be homeless. The article mentions doctors and nurses living in shelters, man.