I am disabled. I applied for supportive geared to income housing for my disability 8 years ago. Their wait time as advertised on their website is 10 years. Their mandate is to provide supportive housing and treatment to people who have my disability.
I hadn't heard from the housing provider since they called me two years ago during the lockdowns. At that time I asked them where my application was on their wait list. They blew me off with a story about my file being "reassessed". At the time I believed them.
Then recently I called them again. I was given the same song and dance about a "reassessment", but this time they added to the story by telling me that my file was with "a third party", that they were deciding whether to put my file on an additional wait list, and that it would be with them for 3 months. I became concerned about the misuse of my personal medical information, the new super secret second wait list, and since there had been no change to my file in 8 years I couldn't understand why my file needed so many "reassessments".
That was when I looked up their website, and found their "strategic plan", "annual reports" and board meeting minutes. All three items went on and on and on about something called "EDI". There were also many references to "serving target groups", "privilege" and "diversity". When I Googled EDI I found it's Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an ideology that believes that certain races are more entitled to services than others, and that "privileged" races don't deserve any help at all. Their annual reports indicated that they removed over 550 people from their wait list between 2019 and 2021. They only have 1000 housing units. Clearly they kicked the "privileged" people off of their wait list during the lockdowns, and without telling them.
I also found evidence that this housing provider (which is a non profit mainly funded by the Ontario government) spent a huge sum of taxpayer money paying a company to indoctrinate their staff and teach them how to lie to the clients who are excluded from the wait list.
Obviously I was angry as I've clearly been removed from their wait list because of my race, and they're lying to me about it. Just because I'm White doesn't mean I'm less disabled or in need of housing than anyone else. I thought about complaining to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, but their website is full of CRT ideology as well. So if you are White and your landlord discriminates against you, you now have no legal recourse other than the RHT.
I wanted to file a complaint with the housing provider's main funder, the Ontario Ministry of Housing. Then I found evidence that they were the ones behind this racism and discrimination! They have an entire website which gives housing providers the information and teaching materials they need to adopt Critical Race Theory in tenant selection. I tried contacting a few big name news reporters who have written negative articles about CRT in the past, but they didn't bother to reply to my emails.
So, if you are on a wait list for social housing, health care or anything else from this province, I strongly suggest you take a look at their websites, and give them a call to ask where you are on their wait list. If they did it to my housing provider, they will do it to the rest of them. Don't be surprised if you get the same fairy tale stories as I did. And if you think Doug Ford's government is "conservative" - think again. CRT is pure cultural Marxism aka communism.