Letter: ADAP will make life brutish and short

By Letter to the Editor on March 26, 2026.

Dear editor,

I have been reading updates about the province’s ADAP program and the disabled community’s reaction to it. I think about my son.

It would be wonderful to believe in the province’s fantasy of training disabled people to work fulfilling jobs.

However, training has already been available for the disabled for decades now. Also it has been increasingly harder to get on AISH for many years.

I would love it for my son to be able to work at a job and feel like he contributes to society. However, his sensory overload is extreme. He is happy.

But I am afraid the changes to disability support programs in Alberta will make life brutish and short for many.

We will take it will one day at a time.

Diane MacNaughton

Medicine Hat

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