World Mental Health Day (10 October) is coming upon us, and as a Canadian, u should be concerned.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a central part of World Mental Health day, gladly Canada is a state party to the convention.

But and its a big but….

Canada has taken NO ACTION

On the

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

What the Optional Protocol is for and how it protects disabled people and you.

All text below
1. A State Party (Canada included) to the present Protocol (“State Party”) recognizes the competence of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals or groups of individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be victims of a violation by that State Party of the provisions of the Convention.

But as Canada became a State Party to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, agreeing to abide by it’s rules and govern it’s people by the Convention, Canada did not sign the Protocol,

Leaving it’s people disabilities no recourse to help if Canada fails to keep to the convention.

2. No communication shall be received by the Committee if it concerns a State Party to the Convention that is not a party to the present Protocol.

And Canada is rife with courts, government agencies and lawyers, and people who are not made to adhere to the convention.

If you are interested in the data for the above statement email the blog and get it sent to you, it will stun you.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that:“All human beings are born equal in dignity and in rights.”
The Preamble of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states that:

“… discrimination against any person on the basis of disability is a violation of the inherent dignity and worth of the human person”.

Meaning of the word Disabilities,