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Editorial Note - Jewelles Smith, CCD Chairperson, was a member of the Canadian civil society delegation, which travelled to Geneva, for the 16th session of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as the Committee was developing its List of Issues concerning Canada's Initial Report.  The other members on the delegation were Audrey-Anne Trudel (COPHAN), Bonnie Brayton (DAWN-RAFH Canada), Frank Folino (CAD), and Steve Estey (staff to disability community's CRPD

AGM Highlights

CCD's Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place on June 11, 2016 in Winnipeg.

CCD Executive Committee – The National Council elected a new Executive Committee:

In-person consultation sessions are taking place across Canada to inform the development of planned accessibility legislation.

Did you know that approximately 14 percent of Canadians aged 15 years or older reported having a disability that limited them in their daily activities? And that there are approximately 411,000 working-aged Canadians with disabilities who are not working but whose disability does not prevent them from doing so? Almost half of these potential workers are post-secondary graduates.

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Charter challenge of forced psychiatric treatment filed in BC Supreme Court

For release September 13, 2016 at 12:00 AM (PST)

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.

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.

In this edition of the Update, I am sharing the highlights of key meetings and presentations made over the past few weeks by the CCD team.

Presented to:

Standing Committee on Access to Justice and Human Rights

For its study on Access to the Justice System

42nd Parliament, 1st Session

April 19, 2016

Appearance by:

John Rae
Anne Levesque

Written by

Joëlle Pastora Sala
Anne Levesque

On Behalf of the

by John Rae

This blog originally appeared on the Broadbent Institute’s website.

The Liberal government campaigned on electoral reform, promising “that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system” and that they “will make every vote count.”