No, they were not, and they're still not really being heard.
In the lead-up to Bill C-7, the whole disability community, including us, predicted that we would get to exactly where we are now. Besides the calls that come in to our office and our federation across the country, you can't open up a newspaper without seeing a story or multiple stories every day that are public and in the news about these situations. It's really quite devastating to our whole community.