🇨🇦 Nova Scotia's new welfare rules exclude tents

The province moved fast once a court said the obvious: if the state leaves people in tents, those tents count as accommodation. So the bureaucrats rewrote the rule the same day it was filed, adding a neat little plumbing test to make sure a tent, car, camper, or anything outside the approved welfare vocabulary stays disqualified, as reported. Running water and a sewer connection are now the moral line between $410 and $738, or $1,022 for some recipients. Very compassionate, very modern, very managerial.

This is Trudeau-era Canada in miniature: governments preside over collapse, then change definitions so the collapse costs less on paper. Bradley Lowe died in a tent after being denied the enhanced rate, the Court of Appeal ruled his tent was accommodation, and Nova Scotia’s answer was not dignity but regulatory word games. The order says it is modernizing language and does not mention the court, which tells you everything. When government starts redefining reality overnight, it is not fixing homelessness. It is protecting the spreadsheet and pretending the national decay is just a drafting issue.

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