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At eight years old, I put a book on the counter at Huntsville Public Library. I\u2019d signed up for my very first card at this magical place, and I was in awe. There seemed to be an entirely different world within these walls. People chose to stay there, for hours, because it was one of the only places you could keep warm and dry and receive services without spending money. I often killed the two-and-a-half hours after school and before my mom got off work, at the library, reading. That\u2019s what I did the day I checked out my first book \u2013 I didn\u2019t leave, though. It wasn\u2019t time yet. So I sat down in the stacks and read the book. I finished and then returned it without even leaving the library, and before I left, I brought eight more books to the counter.<\/p>\n

Today, I learned the Progressive Conservative government is slashing library funding by 50 per cent.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I was 13-years old and going into grade eight at Irwin Memorial Public School in Dwight when I first heard about the class field trip to Ottawa. It was something all the students talked about with excitement \u2013 a tradition at the school, and many of their older siblings had gone previously, returning with tales of hijinks and shenanigans to which we could only hope to aspire. This was my second-and-a-half year at this school. Before that, I\u2019d gone to Huntsville Public School, a completely different experience. I came to Irwin with a vocabulary that shocked even the principal (I believe I exposed many of my peers to the \u201cC\u201d word for the first time, and many other words you don\u2019t get gold stars for knowing), I also came with the attitude of someone who was used to disappearing into a huge classroom of students. Suddenly, because of the small class size, I became incredibly visible. In fact, when my teacher noticed toward the end of that year that I hadn\u2019t submitted my permission slip or money for the trip, she reached out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there a reason your parents haven\u2019t paid for the trip?\u201d<\/p>\n

I shrugged. \u201cI don\u2019t think I can go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it\u2026 because it\u2019s too expensive?\u201d<\/p>\n

I shrugged again, but she was persistent. This teacher, who sang us \u201cLinger\u201d by the Cranberries on her acoustic guitar and didn\u2019t try to hide her tears of anger when we drove her to the brink of madness, offered to pay for my trip to Ottawa. She thought it was important. She thought I was important. I hadn\u2019t disappeared in her classroom like I had when the room contained 30-plus students.<\/p>\n

I went to Ottawa that year because my teacher saw me.<\/p>\n

Now the PC government is pink-slipping teachers<\/a><\/span> and blowing up classrooms. There are students who won\u2019t be seen, their potential lost in the din, like mine almost was.<\/p>\n

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Years later, after university, I became one of a rare breed: an educated young person returning to her home town. I had been part of the post-high school exodus, thrilled to put Huntsville behind me. But now, I was back, and one of the first things I did was seek out supports for women. I came across the YWCA Muskoka\u2019s long-running Women in Business and Business of Life courses. I took both, even though I had no idea what type of business I\u2019d ever want to do. I just wanted to learn and feel connected to something bigger than myself. Those courses introduced me to women who are still my dear friends seven years later; whose stories and struggles inspired me, and the lessons I learned with them remain foremost in my mind. I felt grounded in Huntsville for the first time in my life \u2013 I had found my community, and it began there.<\/p>\n

Funding for these programs have been cut.<\/a><\/span> Staff contracts have not been renewed. I guess I should be grateful I got the support and education I needed when I did. If I only cared about myself, I guess I could get over it. After all, I got mine.<\/p>\n

The first time I attended a DART conference (Domestic Assault Review Team), the keynote, who I would later befriend through the Muskoka Parry Sound Sexual Assault Services peer mentorship program (another life-saving agency on the receiving end of cuts and broken funding promises), left a huge impact on me. She shared her story of abuse at the hands of a trusted person, and her experience with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, a committee that provides victims of crimes with compensation toward counselling, lost wages, and other damages. This woman is an incredible advocate for vulnerable people now.<\/p>\n

The board is being shut down<\/a><\/span> \u2013 no longer can victims be recompensed for the crimes done to them.<\/p>\n

In my work at the women\u2019s shelter, I have referred countless women to Legal Aid with a free two-hour legal certificate so they can contact a lawyer and get much-needed legal advice regarding domestic violence, immigration issues, and other legal issues. Without this support, low-income women would not have access to competent and committed legal support. This representation has been the deciding factor in keeping exploited, abused women from returning to heinous conditions, either in the violent family home or their country of origin.<\/p>\n

Legal Aid Ontario is losing 30 per cent of its funding<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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I wish I didn\u2019t have to rip my chest open to release these stories to prove to the government that people matter. I wish these were inalienable truths, not matters for debate. I wish that we, as a society, could not forget for one second that a single person lost because of numbers on a graph is a step toward the dehumanization of all marginalized people. And to those in power, we are all numbers, we are all acceptable losses in this fire sale that Doug Ford et al has unleashed on our province. If you haven\u2019t experienced loss yet, you will \u2013 but likely someone you love has been deeply impacted by these cuts. Most of us, however, won\u2019t or can\u2019t openly talk about it: who wants to be the rape victim who steps in front of a microphone to bemoan the loss of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, which may have paid for her trauma counselling? Who wants to be the poor woman writing letters to the editor about the plight of her poverty and what it felt like to have a moment of hope with the Universal Basic Income project \u2013 only to lose her apartments and return to the line at the food bank?<\/p>\n

Why are we consistently demanding that those among us who have lost the most also be the ones at the front of the rally, begging not for more, but just to keep what we had?<\/p>\n

I would not be writing this if it weren\u2019t for the many social services and safety nets that made me so proud to live in Ontario. I don\u2019t know where I\u2019d be, frankly. Our desire to uplift the so-called \u2018least of us\u2019 is what I loved most about being a Canadian. Now, not a day passes that I don\u2019t hear of another vital service being gutted in the name of the almighty dollar. The budget is being balanced on our backs and we are crumbling.<\/p>\n

But hey \u2013 apparently that\u2019s the cost of doing business. And we\u2019re open for it.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free newsletter <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Kathleen

Kathleen May (Photo: Kai Rannik)<\/p><\/div>\n

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