Thank you for all your help and support regarding my post on memory, mood and brain damage.
Today I had a long and convoluted conversation for the government representative, a “higher authority” who said things like this for almost 90 minutes: "Whether you are completely immobile and unable to consistently breath much less work is irrelevant in determination of whether you met the compliance of the CPP code, which does not indicate that you have reached compliance of the Federal Revenue laws or other Federal determinations, and while I cannot say that you have or have not been medical adjudicated, there is no current agreement with the UK and if there was in the future it would be placed in the paper, but since that would occur after your 90 days where you are allowed to make an appeal, it would fall outside the limits of the law regarding CPP pension regulations."
Yeah, it was kinda of like having your brain as a sponge soaking in vinegar. So I am in shock. I waited nine months to hear this.
After six months (and requesting additional medical materials) the Canadian Federal Government has determined that I am not disabled that I am ‘severely disabled’ and with a “prolonged” disability which means that I have such a level of disability that (from the letter I was sent) “your disability is likely to be long term AND of indefinite duration or (“or” bolded in the letter) is likely to result in death). Also that I do not have any independent means of support.
However, though I worked constantly in the UK until I went on disability there, and WAS determined to be severely disabled (for something else I talked about earlier in this blog), so have a continuity of payment into pension and social insurance in both countries.....
Of all the EU countries, the one Canada does not have an agreement with is the UK, so while I can prove I was contributing, and that I was paying my Canadian Taxes (because there IS an agreement regarding taxes), to the Canadian Pension Plan and Social Benefits on a National Level, they refuse to acknowledge this due to no agreement (the reality of what occurred is secondary to the acceptable paperwork of what occurred!).
(sorry, yeah, it's a guy, Yaoi again!)
If Canada and the UK do reach an agreement it will be listed in the newpaper, but there are no current negotiations.
I only have 90 days to appeal and if they reach an agreement after the 90 days which does include my UK contributions because I have already applied and been “determined ineligible” I cannot reapply.
I am a person who has no means of support, who is, after a careful examination of all medical documents determined BY a medical judicatory to be unable to support or even find income in my lifetime and have no current income or support. And because I moved from the UK to Canada, I will not now or ever receive any assistance from Canada (the person suggest I think about moving back to the UK – which is what I guess people with severe disabilities and no income do, move internationally!).
So I am pondering how in pretty much anywhere in the world, from Mexico to Japan, from Germany to China, if you are a citizen of the country, and you are a resident of the country and you are determined by no fault of your own to be completely incapable of work due to disability, SOME small modicum of help is given by the government. While in Canada, we have to PAY the doctors to fill out sick notes and the forms (14 pages) to be examined by a medical judicatory. And how, though I have worked at many jobs all my life, am now, in a country, known for social safety net, which is quite happy and has no option, according to the paperwork but let me die, unless someone ELSE comes in to help me.
This has not made me very cheery.
I am a person who the state has determined cannot help themselves and dying but because of paperwork, will not be assisted in any way: I am a Canadian!
Here is Dojo in his Ninja glory, as he carries out his assault on Linda. I’ve left the sound on so you can hear her pure, innocent kind-heated nature as she tries to assist this….reprobate. Poor Linda, always attracted to ‘bad boys’ (“They can change, I know it!”)
I was going to blog about how I met a reader today in a place my clothes were removed from me (unrelated incidents alas!). But I will leave that and the story of how I found out the same old Coot who told me I “was too young to UNDERSTAND Moby Dick” just sank my library job. Apparently, I didn’t get it, because there were no interviews with short list but three people to determine the ‘best candidate’ for the library, and it seems that my letter of “Fuck, I am the fucking bomb for this job. I will bring twelve types of literary shit to this program…” wasn’t the image of Victoria they wanted. They like to think of themselves as the cultured and the elite; while the rest of the world wonders we act like deluded pricks? I mean we are the most unethically diverse major city in Canada (white bred!) and we’re PROUD of that. We have a higher high school dropout rate than the rest of the province but since we per capita spend more on Opera Tickets, there seems no pressing need that we also rated one of the cities with the highest per capita rate of homesless, drug addiction and sexual abuse (Just this year Victoria citizens were rounded up in Operation Koala, a sting of online users of child pornography, created on-demand – the same year the city decided to have its official ads as Victoria a town of lust, orgasm and the promise of experiencing "that tingling sensation.")
Victoria is a city that maintains it’s self view by jamming its head up it’s ass and then gets annoyed at anyone who says that smell might not be from flowers. Welcome to Victoria, the city that became capital by becoming a free port, exactly the same as the infamous Port Royale. Welcome to Victoria, who TOLD black American businessmen in 1900's who could NOT be full citizens in the US to come to Victoria and be citizens. But when they arrived by the hundreds, Victoria sent them to an separate island and treated them so bad that Victoria became more known for the minorities that left here than the diversity. 1880: Black families, realizing they will never become Canadians, leave to go BACK to where lynching occurs (the USA) because it is a better climate. Only their graveyard on Salt Spring remains. In 1940’s the city boarded up the Synagogue after determining only two Jewish families remained in the city. 1942-43: All Japanese are removed to Alberta where they are forced to pick crops. Few if any return, as they property was official “bought off.” Now they visit as tourists, sometimes. In 1947, the Chinese, who had been in Victoria since 1858 in the oldest Canadian Chinese settlement received the right to vote (Asians being the only Canadian group denied voting rights by race). The Japanese didn’t get the right to vote until a year later in 1948. Not that any were here in Victoria.
Tomorrow I will go to Pride tomorrow to ask, as I did last year, if the RCMP or Police force are interested in any people with disabilities (“No”). And if hate crimes against LGBT people continue to happen (“Yes, a lot, particularly near Johnston street Bridge”) and why they never are public reported. But then that would be from the Times Colonist, who only last year actually admitted the town HAD a Pride event. But since being a “homosexual” (not the act, not doing it in public, just BEING homosexual) was a crime with automatic prison time in Victoria until 1969. Not until 10 years later, 1978 did Canada (and Victoria) stop the automatic inadmissable status to immigration of a person IF they were homosexual. In Parliament Sven Robinson tries to get ‘Sexual Orientation’ added to the Human Rights act in 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1991. All bills fail to pass parliament. In 1993 the Senates passes a bill which will add “Sexual Orientation” to Canada’s Human rights act……but the parliament dissolves before it can ratified in the House of Commons.
1996: The bill finally passes.
Here in town, in Oak Bay, the city whose schools have told PFLAG that they “don’t have gay students” but that if they every ‘have a gay’ they will contact them. But until them, PFLAG is not welcome in the schools of the richest, most white dominated suburb of Victoria (where the kids after school go to the coffee shop to charge their drinks to the “family tab”).
I am not even touching the medical system, see. This is why I left 10 years ago (back when I would finally have been granted a 'human right'), and came back to find the exact same people in the exact same jobs, now deciding if I have a job. But I will explain that tomorrow. After I find out if like last year I am the only manual wheelchair user at the towns unaccessible gay and lesbian event (with no disabled parking). Last year the lesbians didn’t talk to me, so I ended talking to straight burlesque dancers instead. I can’t say I’m expecting much to change. You can not catch me later at the towns only lesbian/gay club (down 14 stairs).
We a town of self pleased hypocrites in a nation of bigots. We are Canada.
