Right,Left and Centre; The Politics of Some Canadians by Dave Jaffe: Chapter 21, Part Three of A Farm Womn's Odyssey.

     A Farm Woman's Odyssey- Part Three by Dave Jaffe.


           In the late 1990's, Moira Sherrington lived alone and her finances weren't in great shape. She had gone bankrupt and lived on welfare for a while. Yet she didn't like it on welfare. In the late 1990's, the then N.D.P. government offered 20,000 welfare recipients the chance to go on disability allowance. Moira was called in to the local welfare office and told she could apply for disability allowance that was quite a bit more generous than a straight welfare cheque.
     "I don't want to go on disability," Sherrington told the welfare officer. "I'm going out to find a job."
     In the late 20th century, Sherrington underwent a massive mind change. She went out and found a job in an office. Her typing and office skills helped her here. She stopped hanging out the places she had when she lived on welfare. She told her friends that she no longer endorsed all left wing politics though she never became a hard cor conservative either.
    "You've got to pick yourself up by your bootstraps,' her farmer father told her when she first went out looking for work at the age of 18. This is what Moira had done. She shed her youthful identities and embraced the hard working ethic of her parents. She became part of the Canadian mainstream
and left behind the left wing dreams that Stanley had told her about .
     Her journey through the realm of ideas was over. She had found what she was looking for.