[news] Bill 118, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2004

[Resist!ca]

I am feeling bitter, sad and not a little vitriolic! This is because I understand that when people think of people with disability, they think of physiological illness and physically damaged people. As a result their bigotry is not intense, mostly just subject to misunderstandings or stereotyping based upon misinformation, i.e. without mens re, unlike the "stigma" pertaining to the "mental illness" label, wherein peoples' irrational fear, hate and denial is at times little more than a shunning and at other times akin to a biblical stoning. Both of these reactionary behaviours are frequently found within our loving families, administrated by professionals and profited by institutional "mental health" and corporate pharma. The constant nay-saying of the government to ODAC amendments was clearly not the voice of the people, but of the professionals in service to moneyed interests. Nothing changes so much as it stays the same!

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/7/21370/06938