The Liberal Party of Canada has responded to our letter to the leaders of the Conservative, Green, Liberal, and New Democratic parties of Canada seeking their party’s platform response on the Canada Disability Benefit.

Read it here: https://disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Disability-Alliance-BC.docx-1.pdf

This response follows a response from the NDP, which we posted on our blog last week.

Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Nicholas Simons has written to DABC to address vaccine passport exemptions for people who are medically unable to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

He responded: “Medical reasons that someone cannot receive a COVID-19 vaccine are limited to very few individuals. There will be an exemption process for those extremely rare circumstances, involving a person’s doctor and the Office of the Provincial Health Officer. These instances will be extremely rare.”

We’ve responded to request further information from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction and the Ministry of Health about what the medical exemption process would look like, specifically how affected individuals can liaise with their doctors to ask for this exemption from the Office of the Provincial Health Officer.

On September 7, 2021, DABC sent letters to the leaders of the Conservative, Green, Liberal, and New Democratic parties of Canada to seek their party’s platform response on the Canada Disability Benefit.

We have received one response from the NDP, which you can read here: https://disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org/ndp-response-disability-alliance-bc/.

We will post an update if we receive any further responses.