When the Middle Class Becomes Homeless

 The theme of the Commffest Film Festival this year is homelessness. After being asked by the organizers to produce a documentary on the topic I set to work. The world premiere of the resulting film, When the Middle Class Becomes Homeless was Sept 25, 2011. Every hour of every day, another middle class Canadian cartwheels into the bottomless abyss of homelessness. More and more members of the middle class are losing their jobs and everything they have worked a lifetime to accumulate. On a recent visit to a homeless shelter I was struck by the change in the type of residents I found there. Nearly half of them were recently successful members of the middle class who still carried cell phones and dressed in middle class style, looking like they were on their way to a job interview & making them indistinguishable from your next door neighbour or you for that matter. There is an unproclaimed epidemic threatening the very fabric of our society. Homelessness among the middle class is sweeping through our civilization at an alarming rate and nobody is talking about it. They speak of the shrinking or declining Middle Class, but not of what happens to a middle class family when they are no longer members of this group. The causes are myriad, but there is only one reason why this is happening to our fellow Canadians; Governments at all levels have acquiesced to the agenda of the dominant elite that is currently striving to transform Canada into a 2 class society consisting of the ruling elite and those who serve them.





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