Medical Assistance in Dying committee  The problem is that it's often unsuccessful.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I do not have that data available for you. I can provide information based on the experiences and the legal practice that I do and that ARCH does, based also on the information that we are receiving from some of our partners, disability advocacy groups, from across the country.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I am not suggesting that a person should accept going into an institution and living out their entire life in an institution in a setting that's entirely inappropriate for them. I am telling you that that is the exact kind of discrimination and the exact kind of deprivation of th

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes. My role is to advocate as hard as I possibly can on behalf of my client to get the supports and the funding in place so that person doesn't have to consider MAID.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you for the question. I did hear it. I think that without a doubt it does create a very difficult relationship between people with disabilities and their health care providers. In the work I do, what I've heard expressed by clients in my communities of people with disabi

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you for the question. I can't say that I've had in-depth conversations with my clients about all of the steps that physicians are taking to inform them of services that might be available to alleviate their suffering, but I can tell you, from a broader perspective, the con

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you. Good morning, members of the committee. I am a lawyer working at ARCH Disability Law Centre. ARCH is a specialty legal clinic that provides legal services to people with disabilities in Ontario. ARCH is a poverty law clinic, meaning that the majority of the legal serv

Human Resources committee  Is there a dispute...?

Human Resources committee  I think some of the issues that people with disabilities will complain about to the accessibility commissioner may also be able to be brought to the Canadian Human Rights Commission under their legislation, the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Human Resources committee  How do I address the issue about people with...?

Human Resources committee  We experience every day in our clinic that people with disabilities are very disempowered. There are many complaint processes because, as you said, the respondents or the organizations that are being complained about usually have a lot more resources, and they have lawyers and in

Human Resources committee  Yes. It's very—

Human Resources committee  It's very difficult to say, because we don't know what that process looks like right now, so I'm not really able to answer as to whether it's going to be more favourable to people or not. What will determine whether it's going to be more favourable is how accessible the process i

Human Resources committee  We addressed this in our opening remarks, but I think our recommendation has been to have no exemptions. The policy reason for that is, as Mr. Lattanzio said, that accessibility is everyone's responsibility, and no one should be exempt from moving towards a more inclusive and acc

Human Resources committee  We did. During the consultation process, we made comments and provided information around trying to think about this legislation as not only focused on accessibility but really focused on rights for persons with disabilities, in terms of thinking about persons with disabilities a