Premier Ford, Answer Me This

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Premier Ford I have a problem with your agenda.

Well, I believe the problem is your hidden agendas.

I have a few other problems with you but first let's talk about the largest one.

So, let us see, you are planning on building a million and a half houses.

I read somewhere that these houses will have basement apartments.

Also, you claim they will be "affordable".

(Hang on for a second. I have to stop laughing)

I have to give you credit for your way with words.

You come across in such a manner that the average person actually believes what you are saying.

They hear your voice, but, sadly, they do not hear your words.

Answer me this Premier, "Affordable by who, exactly?

Also, I may be wrong, I heard that the refugees will be given first priority to these homes. They were given first priority to and have now filled a large portion of our civic shelters.

(We will not bother to bring up how many are being housed in motels and hotels.)

Maybe you should get off your couchbuns one evening and walk along the Danforth starting at Victoria Park and ending at Broadview.

If you start the journey around midnight you should be quite entertained by the sights you shall see and the people you meet.

When you get to the Bloor Viaduct why don't you take a box of donuts to the souls who live under it.

Do not be a fraid. They are not trolls. They are only our homeless who have lost hope. yet found a way to cope.

"Do you know that there are literary thousands of Ontario citizens, voters and tax payers, (Yes, homeless people pay tax on everything just like everyone else.), that are sleeping in tent cities, parks, under bridges and highway overpasses and down in the many valleys and alleys?

Ontario needs apartments. Now.

Affordable apartments geared toward the low income for they are the ones who are truly homeless.

Do you understand that the average rent in the province is far higher than those on social service or disability assistance could never afford?

Anyone who is presently receiving social assistance receives far less than the average rent.

This causes them to eventually lose their homes. After which they cannot qualify to obtain an apartment because the rent is far more than the maximum they can receive.

Apartments should be a higher priority than houses built far out in the suburbs where many families would be stranded and depend fully upon public transit to conduct their everyday lives.

Perhaps your actions are a ploy done purposely to drive the low income population far out into the fringes of society and thereby be less noticed. Out of sight. Out of mind.

Remember I tell you this Premier Dougie,

"You can build five million houses and it will not get one single Ontario homeless citizen off the streets. Not one.

Why?

The answer is simple.

If the homeless soul could afford to buy a house they would not be homeless.

I suggest you do a study to see how many of the present homeless are senior citizens.

Also, you should do a comprehensive study to see how all seniors, housed or homeless, are surviving.

I know of quite a few that have to make a choice every month between paying rent and the bills or eating.

There is no sense having a bunch of groceries if you have no home to eat in.

Sir, Premier, Dougie or whatever I should call you, listen, I think you should fall back and regroup and take a detailed look at what has happened and will happen here in our once stable and beautiful province.

And then man up and do the right thing for the right people.