On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:17:04PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I am a citizen of the country. I have right to employment for which I am > qualified. Disabilities must be accomodated by the employer. If you Do you also have a right to be provided healthcare? What about education? What about a right to have money taken away from someone else and given to you? > rely on individual companies to be accessible to people with > disabilites, they wont until 1. they decide that people with a specific > disability are a good target market for their products or make good > employees. In general, it doesn't happen. > Right, because private entities are in business to make money. I think what you are looking for is a charity, or some other entity which is not driven by normal market forces. > So if the government doesn't enforce accessibility standards then either > people with disabilites end up on welfare or homeless. > I disagree. Plenty of perfectly able-bodied (or non-disabled or whatever term you prefer) end up on welfare or homeless. > The way a society addresses human rights tends to define that society. > In the US you have Texas. In Canada we have Alberta. However, since > Canada is a federation and human rights are enshrined in our > constitution the differences between the provinces is more in > implementation rather than in weather or not a particular right is > respected. Its a work in progress; not all rights are respected > everywhere and lawyers cost money, especially to take something to the > Supreme Court. > > I don't want this to sound like a Canada-US thing. There are more > differences between provinces and states within each country than there > is between the two countries as wholes. > Quite right. > As for the language thing, we have two official languages (French and > English); people can demand services by any governement or > government-run organization in either. I don't expect to be able to go > into Toronto's China Town and get service in perfect english. On the > other hand, if you go into any hospital you have a right to service in > whatever language occurs in the community; you'll get a larger choice in > Toronto than in Wawa. Its part of our tradition of multiculturalism. > Right. Now, what if businesses in Canada were forced to offer service in Arabic (or some other language of a significan ethnic minority group)? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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