The UCP government’s treatment of AISH recipients is contemptible.

Well-known businesswoman Arlene Dickinson launched a powerful post about Bruce Johnson, a 57-year-old AISH recipient who evidently killed himself over the latest bureaucratic nightmare inflicted on these people.

“The Alberta government kicked me in the teeth with the introduction of ADAP,” Johnson had written.

(ADAP is where many recipients of Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped will end up if government deems them able to work. ADAP comes with a nest of rules so complex even the bureaucrats must have trouble understanding them.)

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Johnson wrote, “ADAP was just something that has finally pushed me to end everything.”

Dickinson, best known for her time on Dragon’s Den, came down hard on the UCP government.

“I’m writing this because Bruce Johnson had a voice and he used it, and no one in power listened.

“The people who will be hurt by this transition on July 1 are people who are already exhausted from fighting to be seen. They shouldn’t have to fight alone.”

She has got........

© Calgary Herald