Good grief not good government

Oh my God…I want to cry.

After speaking with yet another Hamilton police officer and being denied services – yet again, I end up perusing the net and find that the American Department of Justice has a special department that investigates and prosecutes hospitals in order to uphold disability rights!

See the DOJ website.

What the hell is going on in Canada then? Committing crimes against humanity that allows individuals with disabilities – in particular those branded mental illness – to be abused to the point of near death or death that’s what.

Here is an example what recent protections the DOJ has been involved in – in this case it investigated four hospitals in California that were violating the civil rights of their institutionalized patients within their mental health facilities.

Excerpts:

“Individuals in the care of the State are entitled to be safe and provided with adequate services to promote their mental health and rehabilitation,” said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division”

[…]

“A mental health patient in many ways is more vulnerable than other citizens, and therefore particularly needs to be protected from undue harm,” said United States Attorney Debra Wong Yang. “The settlement will lead these well-known and often-used hospitals to enact sweeping changes that will improve the lives of hundreds of patients.”

[…]

“The Department found a pattern and practice of preventable suicides and serious, life threatening assaults on residents by staff and other residents”


I hope our Ministers of Justice are reading this and will start to proactively uphold the rights of individuals with disabilities like they are in the United States instead of burying their heads in the sand and being complicit in the abuse.

One method to stop this systemic discrimination is to have 'a minister of the Crown' to designate police officers to take an information on all offenses that have been violated under various provincial legislation that have an offense clause in it.

I'm getting tired of hearing police officers - provincial offenses officer - as clarified in the definitions of the Provincial Offenses Act* - instead of them telling victims they aren’t interested in protecting their legislated rights.

(* there is a new currency of this Act that refers to and will be amended to (?) the Good Government Act, 2006)