Nature lover. Justice seeker. Armchair philosopher. Most in my element where decrepitude meets the poetic.
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Canada provides suffering, then offers death.
Congratulations @JustinTrudeau @MinJusticeEn @PattyHajdu @CQualtro @SenateCA That is quite a legacy you are building. #BillC7 #KillbillC7 #WhyUs #cdnpoli theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Join @TheSyriaCmpgn in calling on @Twitter to stop allowing Putin to publish blatant disinformation about war crimes in #Ukraine, #Syria and elsewhere. Twitter must shut down all accounts being used to spread harmful disinformation
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Let me write 4,555 words about C7 MAID and disability @globeandmail
I want space to write 4,555 words.
Listen, you literally don't even have to pay me.
Just give me that kind of space.
Catherine Frazee retweeted
Right now I imagine those law makers in support of Bill C-7 are cautiously congratulating themselves, reassuring each other they did the right thing while saying, "Its not perfect but any problems can be fixed in the future." I'm no expert, but last I heard, you can't fix dead.
Catherine Frazee retweeted
"The HoC has already spoken on Bill C-7 we've already decided on what we want to do...this is not the time and place to go over old arguments that were already dealt with by the house" Oh, sorry. How did we land on eliminating poverty, homelessness and access to services for PWD?
A very fine tutorial on "Colonial Governance 101" from @SarahJama – featuring #BillC7 as a case study.
Great thread Sarah!
#KillBillC7
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"We've allowed a medicalized idea of suffering to persist… by omitting the social contexts of suffering while erasing the historical ones, and turning our gaze away from the systemic racism and discrimination we know is pervasive" ipolitics.ca/2021/02/19/expa… via @ipoliticsca
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To all the Senators and vocal supporters of #BillC7, we ask you to #CheckYourPrivilege and remember the voices of the most marginalized amongst our community who will be most effected if this bill is passed. #KillBillC7
Catherine Frazee retweeted
'Bill C-7 sets apart people w disabilities and disabling conditions as the only Canadians to be offered assistance in dying when they are not actually nearing death' @CatherineFrazee @TrudoLemmens @picardonhealth @NightShiftMD @NaheedD @francocarneval3 hollandbloorview.ca/stories-…
A powerful rebuke.
In the future when an accounting is done, please don’t forget to include the harmful impact on the mental and physical health of disabled people even just in the discourse around #BillC7
Catherine Frazee retweeted
People forget (or don't know about) Cda's eugenic past. It wasn't that long ago and there are people who still hold those views. Unfortunately, it seems some of those folks are in gov't.
Catherine Frazee retweeted
Mclarens book is excellent and still relevant. University college London just voted to remove Galton and Pearson’s (Galtons partner) names from 3 bldgs- maybe the senate or HOC can get a good deal on some used statues
A clever twist on the DWD campaign!
Here's someone who would support #BillC7 - Francis Galton - eugenicist
#KillBillC7
ALT Black and white image of Francis Galton in a twibbon supporting Bill C7. Text reads "replace natural selection by other processes that are more merciful...That is precisely the aim of Eugenics."
My goodness @JustinTrudeau
@MinJusticeEn
@PattyHajdu
@CQualtro
@theJagmeetSingh
Do you have a comment for @washingtonpost? It appears treatment of disabled citizens may tarnish your global reputation as second-generation architect of a “Just Society”.
#KillBillC7 #cdnpoli
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From my letter to MPs:
"It is not possible to imagine that assisted suicide enabled by Bill C7 will be the one and only health care practice that somehow escapes systemic inequity in its implementation."
Thanks to @SpringHawes for pointing out that #BillC7 “ignores systemic bias” in the Canadian health care system (reminder: cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bc-he…)
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Catherine Frazee retweeted
2/2 so when we are reassured MAID. Will be carefully tracked and regulated it is hollow rhetoric to con cdns into thinking everything is ok. We have a pathetic record in tracking pwd health outcomes generally - how will that change with MAID - this will indeed be a quiet eugenics
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My point is the NDP voted in favour of a bill and they, like most of Canada, don't even understand the implications of the bill or what it means to be disabled. They assumed chronic illness is something 'different.' This is the harmful legacy of hierarchy, of ableism...
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Disabled people are familiar with grief. With injustice.
Where we normally grieve individually, isolated and alone, today we grieve as a community collectively together. Our tears will water the future. Our rage will upend and burn ableism to the ground. We will emerge.
This is an outstanding thread. Please read and share with your MP, with disability critic from each party, and with @CQualtro
