Council of Canadians with Disabilities

[ironsides]

This is what Canada as a nation should adapt, it is a shame they don't. Just copy what the U.S. (ADA) has done and modify to fit in with Canadian thought. So many of you claim to be more liberal than Americans, prove it.


According to the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), 14.3 percent of Canadians report having a disability. Canadians with disabilities are more than twice as likely to live in poverty then other Canadians. The U.S., U.K., Australia, and the province of Ontario all have disability acts. However, there is no federal disability act in Canada. There are however, some recommendations and considerations that could lead to the passing of such legislation.


The Disabilities Act in Canada | eHow.com

 

[petros]

Yeah there is. It's called CPP Disability and each province has their own disabiity funding as well.

The author of the article is a moron with no clue of the disabilty programs structures across Canada.

If hair colour were a disability she'd be the first person I'd call.




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[ironsides]

Big question is why does each individual province have say over this policy, it should be a National issue where all of Canada treats the disabled the same. Canada is after all one Nation. There are times to stop being a Republican form of government, our Civil War changed that. I'm not saying you have to have a civil war, but it would be nice for all Canadians if they all had the same rights. Color of hair is not a disability, lack of hair maybe.

 

[gerryh]

Big question is why does each individual province have say over this policy, it should be a National issue where all of Canada treats the disabled the same. Canada is after all one Nation. There are times to stop being a Republican form of government, our Civil War changed that. I'm not saying you have to have a civil war, but it would be nice for all Canadians if they all had the same rights. Color of hair is not a disability, lack of hair maybe.

Maybe if you learned about Canadian history and what exactly our Confederation is, you wouldn't need to ask such simplistic and basic questions.

 

[petros]

Big question is why does each individual province have say over this policy, it should be a National issue where all of Canada treats the disabled the same. Canada is after all one Nation. There are times to stop being a Republican form of government, our Civil War changed that. I'm not saying you have to have a civil war, but it would be nice for all Canadians if they all had the same rights. Color of hair is not a disability, lack of hair maybe.

Because Federal Govts aren't supposed to have to powers they have. Check your own Constitutiuon sometime. Provinces and States hold the bulk of power. Unless you get ****ed over and they take it from you. Hey wait a minute...didn't that happen already in America?

 

[ironsides]

Confederation, Republic both mean the same, states or provincial rights come first. There are certain rights that should be uniform throughout a country the CCD is just one on many. As I mentioned U.S., U.K., Australia all have national disability acts. States only hold power if they combine with other states with large populations as a single unit they must comply with federal laws and the majority.


C.S.A. (Confederate States of America) the only confederation to exist in the U.S..

 

[petros]

Confederation, Republic both mean the same, states or provincial rights come first. There are certain rights that should be uniform throughout a country the CCD is just one on many. As I mentioned U.S., U.K., Australia all have national disability acts. States only hold power if they combine with other states with large populations as a single unit they must comply with federal laws and the majority.


C.S.A. (Confederate States of America) the only confederation to exist in the U.S..

Nation wide disability rights are in our Charter already.

 

[ironsides]

Nation wide disability rights are in our Charter already.

Glad that is settled. What I was referring to was not so much funding, but that each province had the same rights for all Canadians with a disability. Funding is another matter even down here.

 

[petros]

Glad that is settled. What I was referring to was not so much funding, but that each province had the same rights for all Canadians with a disability. Funding is another matter even down here.

Equality Rights

Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

 

[The Old Medic]

I would suggest you actually read all of the founding documents of your own country. The Canadians that claim that the Provinces have all of the power have no actual knowledge of how their own country works.

That's pretty sad, when a Canadian Citizen that has not lived inside of Canada since 1958, has to point out to people that have lived there all their lives, that they don't know what they are writing on this forum!

And Petros, having a theoretical equality under the law is a far, far thing from having equality in reality. If your version were actually the case, no one would have to take case after case to the Supreme Court of Canada in order to obtain their rights under the law.

I strongly suggest that you spend some time actually READING about a dozen or so of the Civil Rights Cases that the Supreme Court has ruled on over the past 20 years or so. Start with the very basic issue of CITIZENSHIP. Or, if reading legal opinions is too difficult, perhaps you might wish to read some of the Citations against Canada that have been issued by the United Nations because of egregious violations of the civil rights of Native Peoples (who are very specifically granted status under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) among several others. Take a look at the rights of the Disabled, the Métis, Natives, women, the elderly, discrimination against the children of Canadian women vs the children of Canadian men, etc., etc., etc.

You will discover that each individual Province, as well as the Federal Government, have gone out of their way to deny various classes of people their rights. Even after losing at the Supreme Court, several Provinces (and the Federal Government) still continue to violate the rights of peoples.

You see, Canada has one very HUGE difference between its system and that in the USA. In the USA, the Supreme Court is the ultimate decider of the law. In Canada, Parliament has the right, at any time, to overturn any decision of the Supreme Court by legislation. That can not happen in the USA, when a Constitutional issue is at stake. NO LEGISLATION IN THE USA CAN EVER STAND IF IT VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION.

Sadly, in Canada, Parliament can merely decide to pass a law that abrogates the decision of the Supreme Court, and that ends that. Just as Parliment chose to do with the Benner decision (look it up, it may well illuminate the problem.)