Are they going to heed the concerns laid out by the UN and honour their commitments to the UNCRPD? If they can’t do that they should at least admit they’re full of it and are being lead around by a powerful lobby group that doesn’t care about disabled people’s living lives - and that puts others at risk who are also marginalized in other ways - women, indigenous people, people of colour, lgbtq+ people, poor people, unhoused people, seniors - all with higher rates of disability. Trotting out the worn out “untapped labour pool” talk is woefully insufficient. I know, I used to work in that area and I see it for what it is now. BS. Everytime they trot out that message the mainstream acts like it’s new, revolutionary or something (short memories or they didn’t care enough to notice the last dozen times it was done) - and it’s just window dressing, empty - workplaces don’t even practice what they preach and human rights tribunals are so backed up they know they can get away with it. After they pulled the Bill C7 stunt that whole “Ability Inc.” stuff just feels fake, like an excuse for slavery/ duress when our fundamental right to life has been pulled out from under us. The Accessible Canada Act won’t be fully implemented until 2050 and the $200 Canada Disability benefit won’t even get most disabled people to the poverty line. The Green Party has expressed a position closest to honouring the UNCRPD. But they aren’t being included in the debates. Nobody else is discussing disability issues. Not yet disabled and/ or poor people (which can happen to anyone) have no idea how important it is.
