We want to hear from you!
September 8, 2021 by DABC
Since DABC issued our statement about the Vaccine Passport (please read our statement here: https://disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org/dabcs-statement-on-the-bc-governments-lack-of-medical-exemptions-to-the-covid-19-vaccine-passport/) , we have participated in a series of media interviews to raise awareness about this issue. Despite all of this media awareness, we have not heard from the Ministry of Health or the BC Government regarding any changes to their initial decision to provide no medical exemption to the Vaccine Passport.
We have recently received a request by a news outlet to connect them with individuals who have tried to get vaccinated but cannot due to their medical condition. Let’s continue momentum on this issue by raising up the voices directly affected!
If you are a person who has tried to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but could not get approval from your doctor to do so, please reach out to us at advocacy@disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org. Similarly, if you received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, had an allergic reaction, and then were advised by your doctor not to take the second shot, we also want to hear from you!
DABC asks for federal party platform response on the Canada Disability Benefit
September 8, 2021 by DABC
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.
DABC is affiliated with Disability Without Poverty (DWP), which is a national movement led by people with disabilities who are committed to ensuring people with disabilities are involved in all stages of securing a Canada Disability Benefit from design to legislation to implementation. We have written to these four parties to ask if they will commit to implementing a Canada Disability Benefit in close consultation with the disability community as outlined in the five points below, should they be successful in forming government after September 20th, 2021:
“We respectfully request that your party make the following commitments:
- Introduce legislation on a Canadian Disability Benefit and follow through on the promises of the previous government.
- Establish a streamlined, easily accessible application process that can expand the benefit to ALL those eligible.
- Implement an accelerated consultation process to also be authentic, which means people with lived experience must make up the majority of any policy design team.
- Recognize a Disability Poverty Line above the Market Basket Measure, as not to do so would be to perpetuate the inequity faced by Canadians with disabilities.
- Ensure that existing benefits for Canadians with disabilities continue alongside a new Canada Disability Benefit.”
DABC will share with our network any and all responses we may receive from these four parties.
