Canada's poor, disability community, deserve better from their federal government!

I was deeply dismayed to hear about the federal governments announcemnt that it will be spending between 9-16 billion dollars on brand new fighter aircraft. In my opinion, the Harper government has its priorities all wrong! Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility and government accountability? I believe that if we can afford to spend to that kind of money on our military, then we should to have enough money for a National Anti-Poverty Plan. Liberal MP Bob Rae agrees. He recently told me, "if can do one, we can do the other!"

Far too many Canadians living in cities live below any measure of the poverty line; too many people struggle to find and maintain affordable housing; and an increasing number of Canadians are homeless.

The Honourable Art Eggleton has said, "We need - once and for all - to break the cycle of poverty in Canada, and to finally lift its devastating burden. Even the Honourable Hugh Segal has weighed into the debate and said that, "We owe it to the millions of Canadians that struggle day in day out with poverty. But we owe it to Canada as a whole. The time for action is now!" And I agree with them 100 percent.

The federal government has been a really big disappointment to Canada's anti-poverty and disability rights movement on this and other issues. As a social and political activist I don't like the direction in which this country of ours is heading. Canadians are been telling me that it is time for a change. And I agree. I believe the time has finally come for the opposition parties to 'pull the plug' on Harper's Conservative government. Enough is enough!