Inclusion Canada is deeply saddened by the passing of Sir Robert Martin, a renowned disability rights leader & self-advocate from NZ.

As the 1st person w/ an intellectual disability to serve on the UN #CRPD Committee, Sir Martin had a profound impact on the #inclusion movement.

Fed Govt has polling that suggest an overwhelming number of Canadians think a $200 per month or $6/day #CDB is okay and they agree with Budget 2024.

Have your say.

Do you think $200/month or $6/day is adequate enough to bring #PWD out of poverty?

While tweets from parties in relation to the CDB are nice, we’d rather see Conservative, NDP, Green and Bloc leaders all stand in the House on the 29th and give their endorsement to government to fund the CDB to PBO maximum levels. You talk the talk, but will you walk the walk.

Dream come true, I’m hearing Brene Brown in person. Blown away!

.CBC News: Prof Trudo Lemmens, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, says people who are already vulnerable are left feeling like more of a burden in the system. #MAiD

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We'll deny you services, keep you in poverty, precarious housing/isolation, build inaccessible systems/communities for you to navigate, and when, because of these factors, you’ve hit your limit, we’ll suggest you exercise your “equality rights, autonomy and agency” by taking MAiD

Reality for many persons with disabilities (PwD). No support/endless waiting trying to get necessities of life, but no waiting for state sponsored euthanasia. Tell us again how PwD's aren't being targeted for MAID by being denied access to support.
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Where is the advocacy here? How can this legislation still not be proclaimed? Ppl with intellectual disabilities are being paid slave wages. If we did this to any other equity seeking group there would be outrage. Shameful.

Great slide from Inclusion Alberta , Bruce Uditsky and Trish Bowman .

Provincial disability income support programs are well below the poverty level.

Animated graph shows, poverty line in teal blue, disability income support levels in dark purple, well below poverty line.

The #CDB aim is to fill in this gap, and bring #PWD at or above this line.

National legislation isn't clear on disability inclusive childcare but national obligations are - Canada agreed to follow UNCRPD. Provinces can go further. We call BC gov't to make it explicit. #InclusiveChildcare Rachna Singh Grace Lore Mitzi Dean

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Write this down. Just as 'collateral damage' is used as a euphemism to down play the death/injury of civilians. MAiD is a euphemism created to mask the reality that MAID is 1) State assisted suicide or 2) euthanasia, and in both cases, 3) Non-culpable homicide.

Budget 2024 is April 16. As we approach budget day, the National Disability Network calls on the govt to adequately fund the CDB in Budget 2024. On Feb 9th we wrote to govt with our recommendations.

See our brief here -> bit.ly/3J4jHmo

The Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) has the potential to assist persons with disabilities with some of their financial pressures and that's if it's $2,200, on top of current F/T/P benefits. The CDB is not the solution to MAiD, it won't fix poverty, lack of services or ableism.

Dewlyn Lobo, President of ⁦People First Canada⁩ opens the film screening at the Canadian Human Rights Museum. There is no better place for this film to premiere.

So proud to be part of the ⁦People First Canada⁩ premiere of the These Four Walls film on life for individuals with intellectual disabilities at the Manitoba Developmental Centre, an institution for people with intellectual disabilities. This institution is being closed.Grateful

Thank you Mike Morrice for raising this in In the Chamber and speaking up for a fully and adequately funded Canada Disability Benefit.

#FundTheBenefitNow

Assume that I can, and maybe I will. This video has struck a chord with millions of people around the world and started some very important conversations in our community.

Conversations about how we see and care for people with Down syndrome.

Conversations about how people…

A real pleasure to present w Gordon Porter + Inclusive Education today on an international inclusive education webinar out of Australia AARE Inclusive Education SIG and Dr Kate de Bruin. Also Joanne Banks Michael Shevlin Elizabeth Walton Suzanne Carrington Graeme Innes Wacango Muguro Kimani
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The thesis is, maybe, just maybe, elites like lawyers and professors should listen to what the public has to say. The public isn't always right but their perspective is worth serious consideration, and should cause us to reflect on our own.