This week’s federal budget doused the last, best hope for Ontarians who are too disabled to work. Their own provincial government thinks $1,308 a month is a dandy amount of support, but the federal government has long promised a new Canada Disability Benefit.

Optimists believed that the federal money and the cash from the province would finally get disabled Ontarians up to a minimum subsistence income. On Tuesday, they found out that the big-spending Justin Trudeau government was going to allot them $2,400 a year.