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Community Expectations: Compliance and Progressive Realization
Speaking Notes
Prepared by Vangelis Nikias
Council of Canadians with Disabilities
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Manager
Canadian Government Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Victoria Hall
111 Sussex Drive (Old City Hall)
Ottawa, Ontario
March 23, 2011
1. Introduction
I would like to start by congratulating the organizers of this conference and thank them for the invitation to the community panel.
Reducing Poverty and Promoting Social Participation?
Benefits and Limitations of Measures for the Activation of Employment and Occupational Integration Services for People with Disabilities in Québec
Study Conducted for the Community-University Research Alliances 'Disabling Poverty and Enabling Citizenship'
By Léonie Archambault
Directed by Lucie Dumais and Yves Vaillancourt
February 15, 2011
Monitoring of the CRPD
That the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) be appropriately resourced and named as the lead monitoring body in Canada for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD); and that the CHRC carry out this function in partnership with other provincial/territorial human rights commissions; and that the CHRC develop an appropriate engagement strategy with organizations representing persons with disabilities as partners in the monitoring process; and that the CHRC appoint a Disability Commissioner to oversee the CRPD monitoring work.
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Manitobans with disabilities discuss their concerns about how end of life decision making occurs in their province.
Government Tries to Silence Critic of Student Loan Discrimination
June 6, 2011
Jasmin Simpson is a young deaf-blind woman with lupus. While at university, she experienced unbelievable threats to her education due to elements of the Canada Student Loan Program (CSLP) that discriminate against students with disabilities. Through sheer will power and determination she overcame these challenges and completed her post-secondary education with B.S.W. and M.S.W. degrees. However, because she is disabled she graduated with 60% more student debt than would a non disabled student graduating with comparable credentials.
