Adequacy of the support provided to caregivers in Part III of the Canada Labour

Adequacy of the support provided to caregivers in Part III of the Canada Labour DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada Réseau d'action des femmes handicapées Canada DAWN Canada Recommendations on the UN ICERD Recommendations on the Draft Outline for the Preparation of Canada’s 24th and 25th Reports on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) Prepare. [...] As a result of our longstanding advocacy in these areas, DAWN Canada has significant knowledge about the intersections of race, gender, and disability and the experiences that result from the overlapping forms of discrimination and oppression. [...] This is most pronounced in Section 3, titled “Ethnocultural Groups,” which describes Canada’s intention to address the “ethnic composition of Canada’s population, as well as provide an overview of economic and social indicators of the country’s ethnic minority groups, Indigenous peoples and non-citizens, and the representations of these groups in public and political life” (3). [...] Canada must include some discussion of COVID-19 in both sections on health as well as addressing the impacts of the pandemic on Indigenous peoples and racialized groups in Canada in the Annex. [...] Furthermore, the incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other disabilities amongst Canada’s incarcerated population is an indictment on the ability of both our health system and our criminal justice system to properly identify and treat disability.7 The intersecting and compounding forms of discrimination at work across the health sector and criminal justice systems must be addressed.