We are asking for your immediate support in signing and circulating this petition. Click here to open the petition.

Because of specific requirements for legislative petitions, please open the petition and print out as many copies of the signature page as you will need. The original signed petition can be returned to your local association (for Community Living Peterborough contact info click here), Community Living Ontario (click here) or you can contact your local MPP directly to impress upon them the urgency of this issue and ask that they present the petition in the Legislature (Click here to find your local MPP) (click here for Peterborough MPP, Jeff Leal). The petition does not need a lot of signatures to be read in the legislature so please take a moment to print, sign and send!

Read more on the background information here... 

At present there are more than 12,000 people waiting for residential supports, 7,000 waiting for other supports and 1,500 parents providing primary care to their sons or daughters who have an intellectual disability on a waitlist for residential services; 80% of these being parents over the age of 70.

Based on the premise that the promised funding would be forthcoming, these funds are largely accounted for in the financial commitments that agencies have already made for the coming year and were designated to enhancing critical supports and services. 

As a result of the Ministry’s failure to honour the commitment to the 4th year base budget increase, agencies will not be able to cover costs and will have to reduce expenditures.  In fact many agencies have already begun this process, inevitably resulting in lay-offs and/or potentially reduced services.