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With Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), the Government of Canada pushed back from the recommendations in "Medical Assistance in Dying: A Patient-Centered Approach," the report of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying, which went beyond the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Carter case, but the Government did not push back far enough. 

Nous célébrons notre 40ème anniversaire!

Le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences(CCD) a été  fondé en 1976 comme organisation de et pour personnes handicapées. Connu à  l’époque comme la Coalition des organisations provinciales, Ombudsman des handicapés (COPOH, il devint le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences  en 1994 lorsque sa structure d’affiliation fut modifiée pour inclure des organisations nationales de personnes en situation de handicap.

We're celebrating our 40th Anniversary!

The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) was founded in 1976 as an organization of people with disabilities working for people with disabilities.  CCD was first known as the Coalition of Provincial Organizations of the Handicapped (COPOH), but, in 1994, when its membership structure changed to include national organizations of people with disabilities, a new name was adopted - the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. 

Des experts en médecine et des organisations nationales de personnes handicapées approuvent des mesures spéciales visant à protéger les Canadiennes et  les Canadiens vulnérables dans les lois sur le droit à la mort.

Plusieurs d’entre nous ont certainement entendu, le 15 mars 2016, un reportage de la CBC sur l’autorisation d’aide médicale à mourir (ou suicide assisté),  accordée à un Manitobain  par une cour provinciale.

Medical Experts and National Organizations Endorse Special Safeguards to Protect Vulnerable Canadians in Right-to-Die Legislation

On March 15, 2016, many of us read a CBC report that a Manitoba court had given permission for a Manitoban to be provided medical aid in dying, also referred to as assisted suicide, and then the next day the media covered an Ontario case.  Earlier this month, courts in Alberta and Ontario granted constitutional exemptions.  In the province of Quebec, people have been receiving medical aid in dying since December 2015.  You may be wonde

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March 23, 2016

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Le 11 mars est un grand jour dans l’histoire du pays!  En effet,   le 11 mars 2010, le Canada est devenu le 82ème pays à ratifier la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (CDPH), qui réaffirme le droit des personnes en situation de handicap  de jouir pleinement des droits de l’homme.  En ce 11ème jour de mars 2010, des membres de la collectivité des personnes handicapées, Steven Estey, président du Comité international du CCD, Traci Walterts, VA Canada et Bendina Miller, As

March 11 is a notable day in Canadian history, because on March 11, 2010, Canada became the 82nd country to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which reaffirms that persons with disabilities enjoy the protection of all human rights.  On this day in 2010 disability community members, Steven Estey, CCD International Committee Chairperson, Traci Walters, IL Canada, and Bendina Miller, Canadian Association for Community Living, and then Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the UN in New York, to

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