1980-1982 Advocacy to Amend the Canadian Charter of Rights to Protect Disability Equality

Presenter(s)

David Lepofsky, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

1-22-2014

Keywords

People with disabilities--Civil rights; Canada. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Canada

Abstract

David Lepofsky recounts his volunteer advocacy efforts in 1980-82, as one of many who successfully campaigned to get Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of rights and Freedoms amended to protect disability equality. He was one of many who successfully fought to win the disability amendment to section 15 of the Charter of Rights. This lecture gives his personal recollections of his own involvement in that campaign.

Comments

A Roy McMurtry Clinical Fellow lecture delivered to the State and Citizen course taught by Prof. Richard Haigh at the Osgoode Hall Law School.

Repository Citation

Delivered at the Osgoode Hall Law School as a Roy McMurtry Clinical Fellow.

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