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People and Policies in Search of Disability Rights
From: About Canada: Disability Rights
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Chapter two, People and Policies in Search of Disability Rights, explains how the concept of disability rights emerged in Canada, from scholarship and activism against sterilization, and institutionalization. A key focus of advocacy is to reduce the prevalence of poverty among Canadians with disabilities. Next, the chapter covers the policy context of people with disabilities in Canada, in particular looking at a policy document called In Unison. Then, the chapter outlines the state of disability rights policy in Canada in the twenty-first century, as well as considers how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is manifested in Canada. Finally, the chapter looks at the disability tax policies in Canada, and well as how having a First Nations identity interacts with having a disability in Canada.
Contributors
Deborah Stienstra
Deborah Stienstra holds the Jarislowsky Chair in Families and Work, is a professor of political science and the director of the Live Work Well Research Centre at the University of Guelph. She held the Royal Bank Research Chair in Disability Studies from 2000-2003 at the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies. She has worked with national organizations including the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, FAFIA, and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Her recent research interests include the effects of changes in public services on people with disabilities, women’s experiences as a result of economic restructuring, intersections between disability, race/ethnicity and Aboriginality, access and inclusion in telecommunications policy, and experiences of people with disabilities in end of life and cancer care. She is co-editor of Making Equality: History of Advocacy and Persons with Disabilities in Canada and the lead author of Women with Disabilities: Accessing Trade.