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The Annotated Accessible Canada Act - Complete Text, Laverne Jacobs, Martin Anderson, Rachel Rohr, Tom Perry

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The Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada, S.C. 2019, c. 10, which is commonly known as the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) came into force on July 11, 2019. It is Canada’s first piece of federal legislation focusing on accessibility for persons with disabilities.

As a piece of federal legislation, the ACA regulates accessibility for those sectors of the economy that fall under federal jurisdiction pursuant to s. 91 of the Constitution Act …

Embodying Equality: Stigma, Safety And Clément Gascon’S Disability Justice Legacy, Joshua Sealy-Harrington

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Disability occupies a complex position in social justice politics and discourse. It is widely understood as a locus of inequality. Yet ableist language and norms are often subject to more lenient treatment due to the unique challenge they pose to the liberal order—specifically, due to the ways in which our theoretical aspirations for equality are tested by those who are constructed as genuinely unequal (under ableist standards) or those for whom inclusion comes at too great a cost (under ableist priorities).

This is a chapter about those “perceived limitations”—specifically, about how the enshrining of disability rights has not fundamentally altered …