@@pacman3556 Message to Maxine Stirling Dawe: Leave Canada for a cheaper country such as the East Coast of Spain : Many retired UK Senior Citizens reside in Spain. Low Utilities and cheap Rent. Your CPP and OAS is unaffected by the move out of Canada. YOU can teach ESL Online to supplement your earnings ! Give notice to your Mt. Pleasant Road Slumlord, sell off all your Junk with the remainder stored with your Selfish, Lazy Kids then take an Air Transat Flight to Madrid. You can bus it to Granada, Spain on the East Coast. You are surrounded by UK Senior Citizens. Easy to obtain a Visa in Spain. Alternatively, look at Eastern Europe. Bon Chance !
1:07 so you show us a bill for $1464.97 with the past year's worth of electricity charges. Looks to me like this lady hasn't paid her bill in a VERY long time.
@@halasterthethrice-fried3610 what does OP paying their taxes have anything to do with this lady not paying her bills. She chose to give her grown adult kids the money to pay their bills instead of paying her own so why should we pay for her ac (i.e. essentially we pay her grown kids bills).
Alberta did same thing to a friend of mine and they been switching your account to different companies not telling you. Enmax and direct energy some how they are affiliated makes no sense
Reps are human beings..good and bad..no amount of training can undo nature..there are decent folks and aholes in every crowd ..In every company..I don't disbelieve without a reason
This is unforgivable to do to seniors in summer or winter! There should be exceptions made to help them in these situations! 😮What a bunch of cruel little people!
She helped out her adult child in the spring but got the cutoff notice in April so she was already behind in the spring. She gave/loaned her kid money that she didn't have.
There are programs for low income seniors that helps pay for Ontario hydro. Might be a good idea for her to look up the "OESP" program to see if she qualifies. You need to have filed and have all your Canadian Tax Returns up to date as well.
Politicians always choose means tested social benefit so that some people in actual need don't qualify or don't even know to apply hence allowing the politicians to claim they help us when most of the time, people just fall through the cracks. Social workers are supposed to steer people into the programs they qualify for but often it takes an outreach charity to find the people in need who are just despairing. Of course, it's no surprise that means testing and claw backs are usually added to appease the conservatives enough to sign the bills. Note that one of the main advantages of UBI is that it bypasses means testing by being universal and unconditional and that estimates shows the reduction in bureaucratic administration of means testing would actually help pay for UBI but look at what happened with the UBI proposal in Ontario, means testing and claw backs got added to get the conservatives to sign on and once the conservatives got into power, they just canceled the whole pilot project before any relevant data could be collected.
Oh yes how dare those evil people supply her with hydro for what looks to be at least a year without her paying for it before finally stopping service.
This is a. disgrace.. truly. I've been helping other family members ( as a senior) who can't meet their own bills. Something has to be done about the high cost of rents, food, etc.
if seniors want ac then tell them to stop giving money to their grown children and use the money for ac. They are grown adults not children so why should I pay for a seniors ac so their kids can have their bills paid for? Also ac is not a given right. People have lived for centuries without ac and got along fine. There are millions of people across the country that don't have ac and get along fine. Stop your whining.
You cant catch up and keep getting billed the same. Its not just ontario. Alberta one month of enmax for a town house over 359$ i am a single mom of 2 on disability. It is getting harder and harder to wake up and live, crying everyday explain to kids and be in my over draft always this is not a life. Something got to give.
Not sure about Alberta, but Ontario has programs to help cover hydro bills. If youre on disability you can contact your worker to give you the info, or you can try to google “low income electricity support Alberta”, but you should try to confirm the site is legit before putting your info
Well then have your adult child pay you back. They aren't a child anymore they are an adult....how is this news? And AC is not a God given right. Lots of homes don't have AC so open your window and bear with it like the rest of us.
Something does not add up low inc. seniors have a program of free hydro as posted by others here ? Apt. lease has to be in the lady's name with up to date tax info. etc
I'm really sorry she's going through this but I'm on disability and I pay my hydro I don't drink smoke gamble I pay my rent I pay my hydro and pay my bills in order of importance my grandma's on low-income pension she has no problem paying her bills food is the problem not being able to get all the things you need from the grocery store but that's when you turn to food banks etc you're adult child is just that an adult they will have to turn to other means when they would put themselves in front of their mother is selfih
Whenever they have rules against cutting off the power during a vulnerable season, they would just sweep through just before the start of the season and those that they don't cut off, wind up accumulating a debt they can't repay before the next season. Mind you, in this case, shouldn't the family she helped, step in?
Does this woman not have any children who could have helped her get back on her feet. People need to save money rather than going to coffee shops etc etc etc and why would she help an adult child She was in the same boat. She was lucky a Good Samaritan came along and winter not far off. Hope she learned her lesson.
If the Canadian government can do rent control, can't they do electricity control as well? We need to create bylaws and a specific tribunal to regulate power companies.
hydro is subsidized (at least in Ontario). Ont govt subsidizes all sorts of things like rebuilding the nuclear power plants, wind farms to rebates on bills. If Ont govt didn't control these things and had to all be funded through the sale of hydro then your rates would be way higher.
it was almost a year so looks like just under a hundred a month. If she ran the ac all day, left lights on and if her water is electric heat then it adds up. Then hydro company also probably added in fees like cancellation fees, arrears fees, interest on outstanding balance etc etc etc.
Sometimes seniors need help managing bills that they used to be able to. I hope Hydro reaches out to her and arranges a direct debit of a manageable amount monthly. She needs help. At one time the citizens owned all Hydro in Canada and there needs to be leeway around cases like this.
she doesn't need help managing her bills. Her grown kids need help managing their bills so this lady doesn't have to choose between helping her kids and paying her hydro bill. Lady had the money....her kids didn't pay her back.
She is owing over 1400 dollars for hydro in an apartment. That means she didnt pay her bills for a very, very very long time. She said " I always paid my own bills". Apparently that is not so.
This is not true she is paying her son /daughter in law monthly for over 10 years. They don’t work but lives of the government and his mother Think about it 1500 is not paying for a long time . She lives in a one bedroom apt Her bill is less then $100 a month I know this woman I too helped her out in the pass many times but I am not going to fall into that trap again. Hydro always gives their customers a chance to pay. She’s a liar and God is watching
What would PP's solution be then? She went into arrears because she had to support one of her children. We have no context to the reason why her child needed financial support.
Welcome to Ontario - run by Conservatives! Even worse if multi-millionaire Pierre is PM - claimed at least 4X that electricians capture electricity from lightning - voted 3x against building affordable housing, 2X against raising minimum wages. He & his Conservative colleagues raised the retirement age to 67. Thankfully Liberals restored it to 65.
You could volunteer to help her out, since you seem to have no problem paying your own bills. Not everyone else in this world has the benefits you were given. Some people need help.
@@62Cristoforo Her *um *ss kid who she loaned her money to should have the decency to pay her back. She's in this situation because of that grown child.
@@wholly88 they said her adult child needed help in the spring but she got the notice for cutoff in April so she was already behind on her bills. I agree on her kid repaying the loan but this woman had issues before that.
@@62Cristoforo Oh no not one of 8 billion people who is so old and frail they can't handle moderately hot weather. We better expend exponential resources so they can continue to get older and more frail. It's definitely not like the resources we expend are finite. As long as we solve all our problems exclusively with emotion, nothing could go wrong.
Ontario is run by Conservatives. Spare us the science & evidence denial - and the gaslighting! Climate change is an irrefutable fact! The worst thing to happen to Canada was when Conservatives turned against the environment. "If conservatives are not in the vanguard of the environmental movement, then what are they trying to conserve? I would argue that nothing is more important for conservatives, and for anybody, than saving this fragile planet from destruction in the face of our own activities." - Tom McMillan, Enviro minister under Brian Mulroney, last Progressive Conservative PM elected by CDNs.
@@EyeSee4.8 Ford lowered electricity rates and its been regulated. The providers cant change that. This issue is not political, the problem is that it is difficult to find out about programs that help low-income ppl. A lot of ppl wanna make it political to try and manipulate public perception and its in bad faith
That's good. 💚 I think government needs to set up something for lower income seniors so they have essential services like Hydro paid automatically. My guess is she is in need of a little help as she ages.
People also didn't live in concrete jungles, high rises and subdivisions back then lol. It's also cooler in nature and outside of the cities. Most don't have fire places either to heat their homes without electricity. People need heat.
@@canadaclub8920 Mostly because of infant mortality. Imagine being this sure of yourself when you have no idea what you're talking about. "If you have two children, and one dies before their first birthday but the other lives to the age of 70, their average life expectancy is 35."
Spare us the Conservative bigotry! And stop yelling! Do you say this to deputy leader of the Conservative party Tim Uppal? Why anyone of non-European heritage ever votes Conservative is baffling. The Conservative voting base is rife with bigots and bigotry!
@@garyhaggquist740its difficult, but as a minority i dont appreciate the logic fallacy type reasoning liberals depend on to act entitled to votes. Like they can do whatever they want and guaranteed votes simply for being a lesser evil
@@XetaXones I've never voted Liberal in my life - so you're barking up the wrong tree. I do however, know many Liberal voters, and many NDP voters - not one is a bigot. I also know many Conservative voters and far too many of them are total bigots. There is no "logic fallacy" - I'm simply calling it as I see it - and how polling and evidence prove it to be.
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Tell your kid to pay you back so you can pay your bills sounds like enabling behaviour ?
My father passed away 2 years ago in a seniors nursing home. Totally bedridden after a stroke and no AC.
so go talk to the seniors home.
@@pacman3556 Message to Maxine Stirling Dawe: Leave Canada for a cheaper country such as the East Coast of Spain : Many retired UK Senior Citizens reside in Spain. Low Utilities and cheap Rent. Your CPP and OAS is unaffected by the move out of Canada. YOU can teach ESL Online to supplement your earnings ! Give notice to your Mt. Pleasant Road Slumlord, sell off all your Junk with the remainder stored with your Selfish, Lazy Kids then take an Air Transat Flight to Madrid. You can bus it to Granada, Spain on the East Coast. You are surrounded by UK Senior Citizens. Easy to obtain a Visa in Spain. Alternatively, look at Eastern Europe. Bon Chance !
6 have shut down since covid in ON and most are disasters .. the gov is finally building some attached to hospitals but more needs to be done imo ☹
How long had it been since you visited the poor man to realize there was no A/C?
1:07 so you show us a bill for $1464.97 with the past year's worth of electricity charges. Looks to me like this lady hasn't paid her bill in a VERY long time.
Shut the Friggin Umbrella
@@deesmith6363 is he wrong?
Not really..
It a few months
You didn’t pay your bill.
Do you pay your taxes?
Brain dead take
@@MaidenHelll are those not the circumstances? whats brain dead about it?
@@halasterthethrice-fried3610 what does OP paying their taxes have anything to do with this lady not paying her bills. She chose to give her grown adult kids the money to pay their bills instead of paying her own so why should we pay for her ac (i.e. essentially we pay her grown kids bills).
Wow
I doubt very much they told her she had to pay all at at once. If they did, then there are details we are not being told.
Alberta did same thing to a friend of mine and they been switching your account to different companies not telling you. Enmax and direct energy some how they are affiliated makes no sense
Reps are human beings..good and bad..no amount of training can undo nature..there are decent folks and aholes in every crowd ..In every company..I don't disbelieve without a reason
This is unforgivable to do to seniors in summer or winter! There should be exceptions made to help them in these situations! 😮What a bunch of cruel little people!
@@drumminghands6356 agreed
@@drumminghands6356 agreed
She helped out her adult child in the spring but got the cutoff notice in April so she was already behind in the spring. She gave/loaned her kid money that she didn't have.
And where are her kids now, to help?
@@darrylhubbard931 probably burnouts
Trudeau can help
He already done soooo much!
@@annang8319 Yea true. I think we need more international students.
He doesn't do anything for us@@annang8319
Hydro is municipal and the Ontario Energy Board sets the rates
You spelled "Trudope" wrong !
There are programs for low income seniors that helps pay for Ontario hydro. Might be a good idea for her to look up the "OESP" program to see if she qualifies. You need to have filed and have all your Canadian Tax Returns up to date as well.
I have electric heat can't afford my hydro bills either 😢
Cancel your internet. That's Freelands idea
Who did you vote for? 😉
Look into the LEAP and OESP programs and apply
@@dixonyaarmouf4630this is municipal/provincial
Politicians always choose means tested social benefit so that some people in actual need don't qualify or don't even know to apply hence allowing the politicians to claim they help us when most of the time, people just fall through the cracks. Social workers are supposed to steer people into the programs they qualify for but often it takes an outreach charity to find the people in need who are just despairing. Of course, it's no surprise that means testing and claw backs are usually added to appease the conservatives enough to sign the bills.
Note that one of the main advantages of UBI is that it bypasses means testing by being universal and unconditional and that estimates shows the reduction in bureaucratic administration of means testing would actually help pay for UBI but look at what happened with the UBI proposal in Ontario, means testing and claw backs got added to get the conservatives to sign on and once the conservatives got into power, they just canceled the whole pilot project before any relevant data could be collected.
Pay your bill!!!!!!!!!! Why is this even news??????
Oh yes how dare those evil people supply her with hydro for what looks to be at least a year without her paying for it before finally stopping service.
This is a. disgrace.. truly. I've been helping other family members ( as a senior) who can't meet their own bills. Something has to be done about the high cost of rents, food, etc.
And all utility bills
Eveythimg has gone up and up
what the heck is happening? no ac for seniors who contributed to country life long 😢
What an assumption.
if seniors want ac then tell them to stop giving money to their grown children and use the money for ac. They are grown adults not children so why should I pay for a seniors ac so their kids can have their bills paid for?
Also ac is not a given right. People have lived for centuries without ac and got along fine. There are millions of people across the country that don't have ac and get along fine. Stop your whining.
If you can’t be cut off from the hydro, then it will be your last bill to pay. How much interests is the hydro company charging for arrears?
So didn't pay anything for a whole year ?
You cant catch up and keep getting billed the same. Its not just ontario. Alberta one month of enmax for a town house over 359$ i am a single mom of 2 on disability. It is getting harder and harder to wake up and live, crying everyday explain to kids and be in my over draft always this is not a life. Something got to give.
Not sure about Alberta, but Ontario has programs to help cover hydro bills. If youre on disability you can contact your worker to give you the info, or you can try to google “low income electricity support Alberta”, but you should try to confirm the site is legit before putting your info
then turn your AC down and turn your lights off so you don't get hit by a huge hydro bill. AC is not a given right.
With the amount of stuff in her apartment and the size of her, she's got money.
Tell your kid to get a job or another one . can you imagine letting your Mother go without so your comfortable ?
I hear ya. Im a senior in housing. They are forcing me to stay in a area i hate.
Leave Canada for cheaper, affordable housing. Canada has become a Fool's Paradise !
Well then have your adult child pay you back. They aren't a child anymore they are an adult....how is this news?
And AC is not a God given right. Lots of homes don't have AC so open your window and bear with it like the rest of us.
Something does not add up low inc. seniors have a program of free hydro as posted by others here ? Apt. lease has to be in the lady's name with up to date tax info. etc
I'm really sorry she's going through this but I'm on disability and I pay my hydro I don't drink smoke gamble I pay my rent I pay my hydro and pay my bills in order of importance my grandma's on low-income pension she has no problem paying her bills food is the problem not being able to get all the things you need from the grocery store but that's when you turn to food banks etc you're adult child is just that an adult they will have to turn to other means when they would put themselves in front of their mother is selfih
Whenever they have rules against cutting off the power during a vulnerable season, they would just sweep through just before the start of the season and those that they don't cut off, wind up accumulating a debt they can't repay before the next season. Mind you, in this case, shouldn't the family she helped, step in?
Lady has my sympathy. Canada sure has turned into a dump.
A dump for Canadians born here not so much for the new comers who are given everything
Then leave. You won't be missed. Bye
@@pacman3556 I'm GONE ! Enjoy Fool's Paradise !
Does this woman not have any children who could have helped her get back on her feet.
People need to save money rather than going to coffee shops etc etc etc and why would she help an adult child
She was in the same boat.
She was lucky a Good Samaritan came along and winter not far off.
Hope she learned her lesson.
The story is beyond shocking…
why?
Sounds like BC
If the Canadian government can do rent control, can't they do electricity control as well? We need to create bylaws and a specific tribunal to regulate power companies.
Program exists and wonder why the lady had to go through this .. there may be other reasons not shown in this segment
hydro is subsidized (at least in Ontario). Ont govt subsidizes all sorts of things like rebuilding the nuclear power plants, wind farms to rebates on bills. If Ont govt didn't control these things and had to all be funded through the sale of hydro then your rates would be way higher.
How is the bill so high for a 'couple of months '?
it was almost a year so looks like just under a hundred a month. If she ran the ac all day, left lights on and if her water is electric heat then it adds up. Then hydro company also probably added in fees like cancellation fees, arrears fees, interest on outstanding balance etc etc etc.
My kids have to sit in a classroom with no AC, so meh, no sympathy pay your bills
Sometimes seniors need help managing bills that they used to be able to. I hope Hydro reaches out to her and arranges a direct debit of a manageable amount monthly. She needs help. At one time the citizens owned all Hydro in Canada and there needs to be leeway around cases like this.
she doesn't need help managing her bills. Her grown kids need help managing their bills so this lady doesn't have to choose between helping her kids and paying her hydro bill. Lady had the money....her kids didn't pay her back.
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@@peterheeley8206 what does your comment have anything to do with this video or the OPs comment?
She is owing over 1400 dollars for hydro in an apartment. That means she didnt pay her bills for a very, very very long time. She said " I always paid my own bills". Apparently that is not so.
How can I apply for such a job?
Don't worry the conservatives are going to save us 😅
This is not true she is paying her son /daughter in law monthly for over 10 years. They don’t work but lives of the government and his mother Think about it 1500 is not paying for a long time . She lives in a one bedroom apt Her bill is less then $100 a month I know this woman I too helped her out in the pass many times but I am not going to fall into that trap again. Hydro always gives their customers a chance to pay. She’s a liar and God is watching
Welcome to Trudeau's Canada.
This is municipal/provincial, not federal. And theres programs to help low-income households to cover thei bill or help pay some of it
What would PP's solution be then? She went into arrears because she had to support one of her children. We have no context to the reason why her child needed financial support.
Didn't pay one dime or make any attempt to.
She was hospitalized in April. Her Children have abandoned her ------------> Tragedy !
What did leftists use before candles?
Electricity
Welcome to Ontario - run by Conservatives! Even worse if multi-millionaire Pierre is PM - claimed at least 4X that electricians capture electricity from lightning - voted 3x against building affordable housing, 2X against raising minimum wages. He & his Conservative colleagues raised the retirement age to 67. Thankfully Liberals restored it to 65.
Thanks carbon tax
I don't see a problem here. Pay your goddam bill. We all get the same treatment. If this was a minority the comment section would be nasty smh
You could volunteer to help her out, since you seem to have no problem paying your own bills. Not everyone else in this world has the benefits you were given. Some people need help.
@@62Cristoforo Her *um *ss kid who she loaned her money to should have the decency to pay her back. She's in this situation because of that grown child.
@@wholly88 they said her adult child needed help in the spring but she got the notice for cutoff in April so she was already behind on her bills. I agree on her kid repaying the loan but this woman had issues before that.
@@62Cristoforothere is a low-income electricity support program
Why would u make this about race? We are all struggling
Pay the damn bills lady ,if it was indian then i wanted to see the comment section.
Too bad - no one is helping me - where's my boo hoo news story ?
Older people die in this heat. You should know better. Shame on you.
@@62Cristoforo Oh no not one of 8 billion people who is so old and frail they can't handle moderately hot weather. We better expend exponential resources so they can continue to get older and more frail. It's definitely not like the resources we expend are finite.
As long as we solve all our problems exclusively with emotion, nothing could go wrong.
Welcome to Trudeau's and Singh's Canada. We have climate change hysteria 😂
Ontario is run by Conservatives. Spare us the science & evidence denial - and the gaslighting! Climate change is an irrefutable fact! The worst thing to happen to Canada was when Conservatives turned against the environment. "If conservatives are not in the vanguard of the environmental movement, then what are they trying to conserve? I would argue that nothing is more important for conservatives, and for anybody, than saving this fragile planet from destruction in the face of our own activities." - Tom McMillan, Enviro minister under Brian Mulroney, last Progressive Conservative PM elected by CDNs.
Irrelevant
Carbon Tax, keep voting for the Liberals.
Another cheque this month. lolz.
@@Roof_Pizza should cover about 2/3 9f the cost increases. Unless you live In mom and dads basement.
Has nothing to do with the federal govt, hydro Toronto is a municipal service and the electricity rates are set by the province
@@XetaXones They still pay carbon tax to make and deliver electricity. That needs to be passed onto the consumer.
@@EyeSee4.8 Ford lowered electricity rates and its been regulated. The providers cant change that. This issue is not political, the problem is that it is difficult to find out about programs that help low-income ppl. A lot of ppl wanna make it political to try and manipulate public perception and its in bad faith
My hydro gets paid by my band my electricity is all good living good each month bill is paid even its $2000
That's good. 💚 I think government needs to set up something for lower income seniors so they have essential services like Hydro paid automatically. My guess is she is in need of a little help as she ages.
That’s a shame, but we survived without air conditioning for ages. At the end of the day hopefully she didn’t vote liberal, if so… no sympathy
You seem reasonable /s
Humans have lived thousands upon thousands of years without electricity…. All Four seasons …….. what a soft generation today.
People also didn't live in concrete jungles, high rises and subdivisions back then lol. It's also cooler in nature and outside of the cities. Most don't have fire places either to heat their homes without electricity. People need heat.
and a life expectancy of 30
@@canadaclub8920 Mostly because of infant mortality. Imagine being this sure of yourself when you have no idea what you're talking about.
"If you have two children, and one dies before their first birthday but the other lives to the age of 70, their average life expectancy is 35."
@@NoGo-nl5ll that doesnt help your case
@@canadaclub8920 Tell me you don't understand life expectancy or infant mortality at all without telling me 😂.
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Spare us the Conservative bigotry! And stop yelling! Do you say this to deputy leader of the Conservative party Tim Uppal? Why anyone of non-European heritage ever votes Conservative is baffling. The Conservative voting base is rife with bigots and bigotry!
Try to stay on topic👍🏽
@@garyhaggquist740its difficult, but as a minority i dont appreciate the logic fallacy type reasoning liberals depend on to act entitled to votes. Like they can do whatever they want and guaranteed votes simply for being a lesser evil
@@XetaXones I've never voted Liberal in my life - so you're barking up the wrong tree. I do however, know many Liberal voters, and many NDP voters - not one is a bigot. I also know many Conservative voters and far too many of them are total bigots. There is no "logic fallacy" - I'm simply calling it as I see it - and how polling and evidence prove it to be.
What does this have to do with the issue of a low inc senior struggling to pay bills ? lol that's another problem
Another Trudeau supporter getting a taste of their own medicine
This should be criminal
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