2016
Canada began consultation to ratify the Optional Protocol of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). 1 If the protocol were to be ratified, it would give Canadians with disabilities the opportunity to “file disability rights complaints with the United Nations”.2
1. Megan A. Rusciano, “Towards Full Inclusion: Addressing the Issue of Income Inequality for People with Disabilities in Canada,” in Disabling Barriers: Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law eds. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017), 176