Committee review

[Fun&care]

I find it odd Rachael how you can be so nonchalant about people losing their jobs, houses and livelihoods yet should anyone dare ask an innocent question about claiming income you won't hesitate to chew them up and spit them out.

[Rachael]

I find it odd Rachael how you can be so nonchalant about people losing their jobs, houses and livelihoods yet should anyone dare ask an innocent question about claiming income you won't hesitate to chew them up and spit them out.

That's okay - I find it odd you can bawl out someone for stating their strong views about people working under the table (i.e. committing a criminal offence) and accuse them of bullying yet find it okay to make passive aggressive comments when their views don't agree with yours.

As said, I don't mean to be brazen but Ontario have had ratios well above anyone else's for far longer. When other provinces ratios were reduced, the providers of that time had to adjust - just as the Ontario providers will have to now.

Like when the papermills here close, those who bought houses based on their incomes which having worked their for generations, they expected to continue.

It's life. Nothing is forever. Sure it sucks when people lose jobs, houses, income but Ontario's day care providers are hardly the only people in this situation.

I guess I'm more of a person who deals with it vs whining incessantly. There's a whole year to plan for this change.

I've voiced my views. I'll duck out of this thread since you feel I'm not entitled to have one. Whatever. I just don't think it's as disastrous as many of the woe-is-me crowd believe it is.

Nothing is forever. Nothing. Adapt or die, is the phrase. But it's hardly a case that no one but Ontario providers have faced and it's the overwhelming tone that they are the only victims of life that grates on the rest of us who are already living this reality.

Bottom line - this is a day care forum where either everyone is in Ontario and dealing with it themselves or everyone has already had to make the life adaptions of a smaller home, smaller family, etc because this profession doesn't provide for 3+ children and a home the size we would wish for. Although of course we are all sympathetic to you having to face the change, it's tough to think of you as victims but more so the group who won the lottery years ago and are now whining it wasn't the 'set for life' prize.

[Fun&care]

That is one high horse you are sitting on. Why even comment on this thread in the first place if you don't agree with us or have anything to add to the conversation? Why do you have such a strong need to voice how much you don't care about what's going on in Ontario?

I sure hope no one ever tells YOU to adapt or die next time you are going through something difficult.

[Rachael]

That is one high horse you are sitting on. Why even comment on this thread in the first place if you don't agree with us or have anything to add to the conversation? Why do you have such a strong need to voice how much you don't care about what's going on in Ontario?

I sure hope no one ever tells YOU to adapt or die next time you are going through something difficult.

LMAO - Back at you, cupcake!

This is a forum. For discussion. For many views to be expressed. You might wish that everyone nods in agreement and hands you a Kleenex but again, that's not reality. Do you really want to belong to a forum where people pretend to agree with you or stay mute when they don't, or do you want to actually consider people other than yourself for once maybe? If you want to surround yourself by yes-people who will just nod and agree and pat your back until you feel better, go home and visit your Mummy but here, adults with varying views are just as entitled to state them as you are.

Why do I have such a strong voice about what's happening in Ontario? Because this is a National Forum where some members have had an elitist existence for so long yet expect the rest of the country to be pitiful. It's the self-entitlement train which provokes reactions.

Don't try and twist words and make out you have been victimised again by the adapt or die comment. You know perfectly well is wasn't an instruction but a reference to a phase which came about from a quote. If you fail to understand the meaning of it, you pretend to be fairly intelligent, look it up before playing the victim card again. Your failure to do so, it's merely that - your failure.

It's life. Your circumstances have changed. Adapt to them or quit, curl up in a ball, and whine about how much you are a victim of circumstances beyond your control.