Last night after the vote in the House of Commons, Kory Earle, the President of @PeopleFirstCA shared his thoughts with #DisabilityFilibuster
I am going to tweet them.
If you don't know People First then you don't know disability rights history.

peoplefirstofcanada.ca/about-us/histo…
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

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12 Mar
Switching back now to English

@CatherineFrazee This is the final hour of the #DisabilityFilibuster. We are going to be *pausing*

Please note I did not say stop or end.
Special honour now with President of @PeopleFirstCA joining us with a message. Please watch with us.
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We are onto a new segment with @biopoliticalph who is going to read one of her papers.

"Philosophy of disability, conceptual engineering and nursing home industrial complex."

#DisabilityFilibuster

[hope I got that right]
.@biopoliticalph Whether it be data collection, Covid vaccines, housing or income security, disabled Canadians - who have been disproportionately dying from the pandemic - have been left out.

"Neo-eugenics bio-politics"
.@biopoliticalph is explaining what a total institution is and why nursing homes are total institutions.

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Good morning! We're live on #DisabilityFilibuster
Grab your morning beverage and join us!

Right now we have Tracy Odell who is President of Citizens With Disabilities - Ontario (CWDO) and 2nd Vice President of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD). Tracy has a Masters degree in Critical Disability Studies.
Born with SMA Type 2, Tracy grew up in an institution, worked in adult literacy, special education policy and accessibility, anti-racism and inclusion.
Read 4 tweets
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Good morning to everyone opposed to #BillC7

We are busy working today to get the #DisabilityFilibuster back up and running after two concurrent 'zoom-bombings' by hateful people.

We have already made progress in this regard and things are in motion. We'll keep updating.
We are disgusted with Liberal Party and Bloc's plan to invoke a time allocation "guillotine" to shut down debate on amendments to #BillC7 that were made in February by the Senate. These amendments radically expand an already expansive Bill further.

thestar.com/politics/2021/…
Contrary to what Liberal Party and Bloc are suggesting there has not been months of debate on these amendments to #BillC7
Very little debate has in fact taken place about them. The original bill did not include mental illness as sole criteria for state administered death
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