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A. J. Brown, the artist challenged by deafness and cerebral palsy yet forced to live in poverty because the provincial government claws back her Canada Pension Plan disability benefits, sends me the official monthly financial disclosure form she must submit.

It compels her to declare three-cents interest income earned by a bank deposit or face losing provincial benefits.

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Got that? While our premier, who pulls down $245,000 a year, can drop more than $500,000 zipping around in private jets or expensing tabs in the thousands of dollars at swanky restaurants, her government forces somebody who is no longer able to work because of disability to declare three cents income so it can be clawed back.

This humiliating procedure is repeated monthly, not just for Brown but for all the other people with disabilities, for whom government’s default position seems to be that they must be scammers.

Yet request a simple accounting from politicians about how they spend public money and it’s like pulling teeth from a dead sloth.