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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
Share Your Voice: Community Forum for Robust Safeguards in Bill C-14 Thursday, June 16th
Be strong. Be safe. Be heard. Canadians with disabilities are calling upon lawmakers to limit medically assisted death to persons at the end of life, who are free from inducement and fully informed of all medical and social interventions that could ease their suffering.
On Thursday June 16th, join a Community Forum for Robust Safeguards in Bill C-14 hosted by the National Disability Rights Community. We will let Parliamentarians know what is at stake for disabled Canadians and their families.
This event continues a national conversation, launched by the National Disability Rights Community. We are Canadians with disabilities, their families and supporters working to ensure that Bill C-14 protects vulnerable Canadians.
Bill C-14 will soon become law. This is our chance to share our messages with Parliamentarians. Be heard on why our lives are worth living and why the law must protect people from being pressured to use the system to die.
We need your voice. Stand with us in Ottawa and across Canada this Thursday.
EVENT DETAILS:
WHAT: Share your story at the Community Forum for Robust Safeguards in Bill C-14. Tell parliamentarians:
- Why medically assisted death threatens us ● What it means to live with dignity
- Why we must limit medically assisted death to those who are dying
- That our lives—as they are, in all their human-ness, frailty, beauty and needs—are worth living, and must be valued as any other life
WHEN: Thursday, June 16th, 11:30 am until 1:00 pm
JOIN THE EVENT BY WEBCAST & SHARE YOUR MESSAGE TO PARLIAMENTARIANS ONLINE:
http://video.isilive.ca/drc/2016-06-16/english.html
http://video.isilive.ca/drc/2016-06-16/francais.html
JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON TWITTER: #OurVoiceMatters
PARTICIPATE IN PERSON AT: Rideau Room, Sheraton Ottawa Hotel - 150 Albert Street, Ottawa. If you are joining in person in Ottawa, please RSVP at info@vps-npv.ca. Simultaneous interpretation, ASL, LSQ, English captioning.
AGENDA:
Welcome: James Hicks, National Coordinator, Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Moderator: Michael Bach, Executive Vice-President, Canadian Association for Community Living
Speakers:
- Catherine Frazee, Professor Emeritus Ryerson University School of Disability Studies
- Ellen Cohen, National Coordinator, National Network for Mental Health
- Bonnie Brayton, National Executive Director, DAWN-RAFH Canada
- Wendall Nicholas, Chair, Wabanaki Council on Disability
- Keenan Wellar, Co-Founder, LiveWorkPlay Ottawa
- Jennifer Johannesen, ethicist, parent and patient advocate
- Amy Hasbrouk, Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yet
- Dr. Harvey Chochinov, Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care
Tracy Latimer
The Latimer Case
The Latimer case directly concerned the rights of persons with disabilities. Mr. Latimer's view was that a parent has the right to kill a child with a disability if that parent decides the child's quality of life no longer warrants its continuation. CCD explained to the court and to the public how that view threatens the lives of people with disabilities and is deeply offensive to fundamental constitutional values. Learn more.