Countering Policy Exclusions: Canada, disability, and international commitments
Date and Time
Location
Virtual on Zoom - please note the time is in Eastern Time
The Zoom link will be provided before the event to those registered.
To register, email lww@uoguelph.ca with your name, email address, affiliation (if any), and any disability accommodations you require in order to participate fully in the event. This online event will provide a human captioner to provide live, accurate, real-time captions (CART captioning).
Details
Canada has signed and ratified key international agreements including on disability, Indigenous rights, race, the environment, economic and social rights and others. Reports from civil society organizations and researchers suggest that the implementation of these agreements is only partial, resulting in fewer supports and services for people with disabilities in Canada and abroad, and more people becoming disabled. This panel of civil society leaders and researchers will identify key implementation gaps and their implications for people with disabilities. They will also illustrate how women, girls and gender-diverse people with disabilities provide leadership to counter these failures.
Panelists
Bonnie Brayton is the Chief Executive Officer of DAWN Canada (Disabled Women’s Network of Canada) and a member of the University of Guelph’s Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development –Genre, handicap et développement inclusif (EDID-GHDI) partnership. Bonnie has worked on issues concerning women with disabilities, ranging from health equity to gender-based violence to housing to employment. She provides insight into advancing the rights of women with disabilities internationally and within Canada.
Stephanie Chipeur is an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Law and School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. She has a Doctorate in Civil Law specializing in Critical Disabilities Studies and Public Space. She has published extensively on inequalities in laws and policies for people with disabilities, especially focusing on the need for accessible design of public spaces. Her wide range of expertise includes her lived experience as a wheelchair user since a 2014 car accident.
Lynn Gehl, Algonquin and member of Pikwakanagan First Nation, is an author, advocate, artist, and public speaker with a Doctorate in Philosophy in Indigenous Studies. She challenges Canada’s practices, policies, and laws of colonial genocide, focusing on issues such as Canada’s lack of policies addressing Indigenous women and girls with disabilities, sex discrimination in the Indian Act, and the continuous destruction of the Akikpautik/Chaudière Falls—an Anishinaabeg sacred place. Lynn’s expertise provides a perspective on Indigenous rights and the importance of policies addressing Indigenous women and girls with disabilities.
This event is the first in a series co-hosted by the Live Work Well Research Centre and Dr. Leah Levac’s Canada Research Chair in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy. Watch for other upcoming events on the topic of Countering Policy Exclusions.