Bill C7 (MAiD expansion) and impact on Standards of Care

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

But if she won’t identify with disability rights groups who are experts in disability politics and history and defer to their knowledge because they are not prolife/ antiabortion, or because they’re pro lgbtq, and support BIPOC rights, I’d suggest maybe she’s the one resisting solidarity and that’s actually been losing the battle for us to get left progressives - which has been the natural home for disability rights for the past 55 years - to care about the issue.

Like I said, maybe she’s okay. Or maybe she’s got a lot of support in Alberta and rural Manitoba. That’s fine because maybe they wouldn’t be anti-MAiD expansion any other way. The rest of the country is a different story.

 

[Luce NDs]

Exactly.

Solidarity should not classify people or issues using partisan logic.

Solidarity should focus on shared conditions that undermine people’s basic dignity - not single party issues.

Solidarity calls for inclusive engagement not ideological alignment on every issue under the sun.

Solidarity is hard stuff ... not that solid!

 

[Luce NDs]

Solidarity is hard stuff ... not that solid!

Imagine a conflict inside a mind ... if there was such a thing!

I am told the mind is abstract and evolves creatively ... leaving the absolutely solid behind ...

In some parts of the mind are bits of unknown, because it is a good place to obscure such items of contention as self-concealed. Then the self was once thought to be mind-full ... and then it lost something due to emotional stress!

This leads to vast diversity of the products of ... S' elf ... mores to ponder ... as particularly indecisive! Eclectic ...