The Nova Scotia government is arguing receiving timely access to appropriate housing is not a human right for people with disabilities and is asking Canada’s top court to overturn a decision that found its current practices are discriminatory.
Provincial lawyers Kevin Kindred and Dorianne Mullin argue in their Dec. 6 submission this would “transform human rights adjudicators into the administrators of disability benefits.” But in an apparent shift in course, provincial Community Services Minister Karla MacFarlane later said in an email the Appeal Court’s decision had raised questions about how other social programs could be affected.
“The bedrock of the Court of Appeal decision is that the province is both ignoring their own legislative obligations to people with disabilities to provide social assistance benefits, while at the same time fulfilling those same legislative obligations to provide social assistance to the non disabled,” she wrote.
Conservatives trying to cut or interfere with desperately needed welfare programs for vulnerable Canadians for incredibly dubious, shaky reasons? I'm shocked. Truly. How could anyone expect this of the ideology that... *checks notes* demanded that workers Die for the Dow?
Bring fight to Supreme court
Refusing to use tax dollars to build accessible housing is just lazy and greedy. Find the money and use it
More proof gov & justice system isn't going to uphold human rights SocialMurder is as strong as it's ever been in Canada. Disabled ppl are going homeless, starving to death, dying in the streets. If you think it won't happen to you you're fooling yourself MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy
Sure seems to fly in the face of this little international rights convention Canada signed.. TWICE, called the CRPD. SR_Disability
The Left 'people are I herently evil and need to be forced to do good by law' The Right 'leave me and my family alone and we will take care of ourselves'
As a person with a severe disability, I hope this is challenged and overturned. What on earth is going on in this country?
What happened to the family unit? Oh the government took on that role. There countries where people still care for their own and Canadians laugh at them
Another CPC_HQ hack?
This is truly disturbing to hear this as a Canadian I hope it is challenged immediately!! 🤷♀️🤷♀️💔💔😓😓🇨🇦🇨🇦