To the editor:
This is an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
The federal and provincial governments have failed to be an equal opportunity provider when a person, such as me, is forced to use the Internet and/or a public phone as a means of contact, in order to obtain welfare.
How does a homeless person maintain phone service without a home address?
How can I maintain my ability to obtain income to pay for my basic needs of rent or food when I am sick and I’m still asking for more than 10 years for a doctor to support my needs? I still cannot get a primary physician in 100 Mile House.
So far, I am only able to obtain a Level 1 disability. The federal and provincial governments both forced me to collect my Canada Pension Plan (CPP) allowance at age 60, so the amount can be taken off my B.C. Disability Allowance cheque, every month.
I am able to receive CPP because I worked, but I cannot keep the pension money when I now cannot work and I need that income the most.
The federal and provincial governments allow our essential services to operate in a self-serving manner. This includes ICBC, the BC Medical Services, public transportation and BC Hydro.
Children, women and working men have become expendable commodities.
Please send this letter (postage is free) and other complaints of unfairness you may have to:
Attention: Administration Office; Stephen Harper P.M.; Office of the Prime Minister; 80 Wellington St.; Ottawa, Ont.; K1A 0A2.
Nancy Stevenson
100 Mile House
