Thank you. Good evening.
To start, I would like to thank you for inviting me to provide comments and suggestions to this committee.
A rally cry of the disability rights movement is to say “Nothing about us without us”, and consultations such as this are an important part of giving a voice to a population that historically has been spoken for rather than collaborated with.
My name is Jeff Preston. I'm an assistant professor of disability studies at King's University College at Western University in London, Ontario, which is situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee—