Thread by @DisabilityFili1

Last night after the vote in the House of Commons, Kory Earle, the President of @PeopleFirstCA shared his thoughts with #DisabilityFilibuster
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Kory Earle:

"I am deeply saddened today. I feel defeated. And I know you all do too. We tried so hard – SO HARD – to get the decision makers to listen to us. We got mad, we begged, we pleaded. And we were ignored."

"Today, we know that many important people in this country do not believe what we have been saying for decades - Nothing about us without us. Today, this decision clearly tells Canada that as people with disabilities we are not valued as equal citizens of this country."

"Today, if feels like we have done a lot of work for nothing."

"This is a sad, sad day for us. I want to thank all of you who have worked tirelessly on Bill C7. Many, many people put in long hard hours and worked from the depth of their souls to make sure this didn’t pass."

"And there is value in putting up a good fight. There is value in the work we have done together. There is value in having our voices heard by more and more people who don’t live in the world of disability and don’t know our concerns."

"We have value. We know it, we can see it, and we have showed so many people what we can do and how deeply we care about this issue – even if they don’t.

They can’t take that away from us."

Kory Earle, President @PeopleFirstCA