Equality Rights

Our Vision

Rights to equality, self-determination, full citizenship, valued recognition and respect from others are legally recognized and assured for all people with intellectual disabilities.

Benchmarks for Achievement

• People with intellectual disabilities have access to supports to exercise their full legal capacity.
• Policies and practices that govern the use of genetic technologies and end of life care respect human diversity and the fundamental principles of community living.
• Initiatives to advance equality rights and recognition of people with intellectual disabilities are inclusive of diverse populations.
• Initiatives to advance the equality rights and recognition of youth, persons with FASD, aboriginal persons and other diverse ethno-racial-cultural communities are taking intellectual disability in to account.

Resources

• Response to Draft General Comment No. 1 on Article 12: UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Professor Arlene Kanter – Expert Opinion on Article 12 and the Law Commission of Ontario
• Issues Related to Meeting Canada’s Obligations to Recognize the Right to Legal Capacity without Discrimination and Enable Access to Supports: Submission to the CRPD
• Coalition on Alternatives to Guardianship – Brief to Law Commission of Ontario (Mar 2016)
• Coalition on Alternatives to Guardianship – Brief to Law Commission of Ontario (Oct 2014)
• From Values To Action
• CACL Policy Position on Legal Capacity
• CACL Position on Assisted Suicide
• CACL Position on Genetic and Prenatal Testing Technologies
• CACL Discussion Paper on Issues of Assisted Suicide and Genetic and Testing Technologies
• A Statutory Framework for the Right to Legal Capacity and Supported Decision Making