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Disabled people all over the world know from their deepest personal experience, the capacity of war to cast its mantle of death and destruction over life and limb. The ability of modern weapons of war to devastate a people, to sear human memory with permanent scars of personal tragedy, to shatter the dreams and hopes of children, to maim and injure, is nowhere more eloquently proclaimed than here, the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.

On 22 March 2012, John Stapleton spoke at a workshop entitled "People with disabilities living in poverty: why are the numbers going up?" In his address, John examined the patchwork of programs that make up the social safety net in Canada for people with disabilities.

Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) Submission
to the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review of May 2013

Date:  Oct. 9, 2012

Introduction

1. The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), a representative, democratic voice of Canadians with disabilities is pleased to provide a submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in relation to its May 2013 Universal Periodic Review of Canada’s human rights record. 

On June 15, 2012, the Supreme Court of British Columbia handed down its decision in the Carter case, opening the door for assisted suicide in Canada.  Justice Lynn Smith found that the “provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada prohibiting physician–assisted dying, unjustifiably infringe the equality rights of Gloria Taylor, and the rights to life, liberty and security of the person of Lee Carter, Gloria Taylor and Hollis Johnson.”  Gloria Taylor, a BC woman with ALS, was seeking the right for a physician assisted suicide at a time of her choosing when s

Responses by Rhonda Wiebe, Co-chair CCD Ending of Life Ethics Committee

Aren’t we subjecting people to unendurable suffering if we don’t allow doctors to help them commit suicide?
 

Delegates at Summit on Sustainable Health and Health Care Hear from CCD

CCD’s goal is to build a more Inclusive and Accessible Canada and to ensure that Canadians with disabilities have the same access to the goods and services of our great country as do non-disabled people.

CCD Appears Before Standing Committee of Finance

Canadian Human Rights Commission Not Named as CRPD Monitor

CCD Participates in HRSDC Meeting