Re-Imagining Human Rights. Its Hard to Know Your Rights when the Commission Says You Don’t Have any.

In this month's Triple Vision episode, Peter and Karoline start to re-imagine what human rights in Canada could look like. We start this re-imagining by talking with Dean Steacy of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC). AEBC had launched a complaint to the Canadian Human rights Commission (CHRC) against the federal department of Employment and Social Development Canada, on the basis that AEBC was discriminated against when the forms it used to apply for a grant were not accessible. The CHRC refused to hear the complaint, and the AEBC appealed to two levels of Court to have that decision overturned. Tune in to hear Dean describe the case and why it is so important to blind Canadians. If the Commission were to do things right, they'd be moving to a digital process so that everything is online and everything that the sighted community has to use on line, we as the blind community have access to that. Resources: December 3rd is the annual observance day of the International Day of Disabled Persons, which was proclaimed in 1992 by the United Nations General Assembly. Canadian Human Rights Commission United Nations: International Day of Persons with Disabilities