Comrade Marcel
2nd October 2003, 00:51
OCAP EVICTS ERNIE EVES
At approximately 2:30 this afternoon members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty carried out an eviction of the campaign office of Premier Ernie Eves. This action is a response to the past eight years of Tory rule which have seen thousands evicted from their homes, their lives destroyed. It is also a warning to the incoming Government that policies which attack tenants and poor people will be fought with equal strength. Act like a Tory and get treated like one. Below is a copy of the eviction notice that was served to Eves and his staff. More information and photos will be available soon.
EVICTION NOTICE:
Ernie Eves
Broadway Avenue
Orangeville, ON
September 29th, 2003
As the Tory Party plummets towards defeat on October 2nd, 2003, we of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty have and will not let the last eight years of destruction go unnoticed.
As Finance Minister and then as Premier of Ontario, your legacy is a brutal one. Cuts to welfare, meagre disability assistance payments, a laughable minimum wage - poor and working people living in this province have been hit hard every day your Party has held power. Under the Tories, our streets have been overrun with zealous police, our fridges have stood empty, our families have been forced to live unsure of the roof over their heads.
Make no mistake - we do not forget the suffering and the death. Make no mistake - we do not forget Kimberley Rogers, Dudley George, the countless friends who have died on the streets.
As the people of Ontario prepare to declare you and yours unfit to govern, OCAP is giving you a taste of what mothers, fathers, children in this province feel when staggering rents and indecent wages mean rent cannot be paid and the sheriff piles their lives on the sidewalk outside what was once a home.
This is a send-off to you. And a notice to those who follow and govern this province - the years of dispair and disrespect at the hands of the Tories must be undone.
Signed,
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
NEW ADDRESS!: 10 Britain St. Toronto, Ontario M5A 1R6
416-925-6939 [email protected] - http://www.ocap.ca
At approximately 2:30 this afternoon members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty carried out an eviction of the campaign office of Premier Ernie Eves. This action is a response to the past eight years of Tory rule which have seen thousands evicted from their homes, their lives destroyed. It is also a warning to the incoming Government that policies which attack tenants and poor people will be fought with equal strength. Act like a Tory and get treated like one. Below is a copy of the eviction notice that was served to Eves and his staff. More information and photos will be available soon.
EVICTION NOTICE:
Ernie Eves
Broadway Avenue
Orangeville, ON
September 29th, 2003
As the Tory Party plummets towards defeat on October 2nd, 2003, we of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty have and will not let the last eight years of destruction go unnoticed.
As Finance Minister and then as Premier of Ontario, your legacy is a brutal one. Cuts to welfare, meagre disability assistance payments, a laughable minimum wage - poor and working people living in this province have been hit hard every day your Party has held power. Under the Tories, our streets have been overrun with zealous police, our fridges have stood empty, our families have been forced to live unsure of the roof over their heads.
Make no mistake - we do not forget the suffering and the death. Make no mistake - we do not forget Kimberley Rogers, Dudley George, the countless friends who have died on the streets.
As the people of Ontario prepare to declare you and yours unfit to govern, OCAP is giving you a taste of what mothers, fathers, children in this province feel when staggering rents and indecent wages mean rent cannot be paid and the sheriff piles their lives on the sidewalk outside what was once a home.
This is a send-off to you. And a notice to those who follow and govern this province - the years of dispair and disrespect at the hands of the Tories must be undone.
Signed,
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
NEW ADDRESS!: 10 Britain St. Toronto, Ontario M5A 1R6
416-925-6939 [email protected] - http://www.ocap.ca