Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Oct 15, 2026
Catherine Currie ReindersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This book chapter, uh, was titled Complex Erasures: Reproduction of Disability Under Settler Colonialism, and it is available through the University of Saskatchewan Open Education Resources as part of a larger, uh, open access publication around settler colonialism in Canada.
Catherine Currie ReindersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In kind of this project, we worked with the Native Women's Association of Canada and an advisory group of Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA people with disabilities, uh, to create a shadow report for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Catherine Currie ReindersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One of the main problems that we kept coming up to, um, in this report was that the issues that we identified in the shadow report, um, as being related to the rights of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people with disabilities was that they did not truly reflect the interconnectedness of their concerns.
Catherine Currie ReindersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And there is also a disconnect between Western and Indigenous knowledge systems, which affects and sort of shapes how Indigenous women, um, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people with disabilities, um, experience each of the issues in the report.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
This is where the federal government passed a subsequent law in 2029, or 2021, pardon me, to fall in line with the court's ruling.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
And this law, Track 2 made... made for mental illness, etc., was specifically condemned last year by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
But Quebec went even further in 2024, allowing people to submit advance requests for assisted suicide before a person's condition like Alzheimer's renders them giving a renters than pardon me, incapable of giving consent.
Jonathon Van MarenHOST
And this is really, really escalated.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
What makes you say that?
Ramona CoelhoGUEST
Well, I think that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities would agree with me.
Ramona CoelhoGUEST
They came out with a recommendation last year that we repeal Track 2 MAID, that we improve oversight, and that we put a moratorium on expanding any MAID in Canada.
Ramona CoelhoGUEST
And that's due to a few things.