Civil Rights Now!

British Columbian voters with disabilities do not get equal benefit and protection from the law as is guaranteed every individual by section 15 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Civil Rights Now! is an all-volunteer, non-partisan, not for profit society with a single goal:

To get laws passed that gives Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms real force in the daily lives of British Columbian voters with disabilities.

What do British Columbian voters with disabilities need to get equal benefit and protection from the law?

Law which gives British Columbian voters with disabilities the golden rule and a good lawyer.

Whoever controls the gold makes the rules. If British Columbian voters with disabilities controlled the government dollars allocated to support them they would get the services they need to live in freedom and dignity. Individualized Funding would put voters with disabilities in charge of their own lives instead of paternalistic, indifferent or over-burdened civil servants and service providers.

When your civil rights are violated you don’t need a good hug–you need a good lawyer. Because most British Columbian voters with disabilities cannot pay for a good lawyer they have no way to protect their civil rights, which are frequently violated by government, unions and businesses. You don’t have a civil right if you don’t have a remedy to enforce it. This is why voters with disabilities need funding for test cases involving their civil rights—to get access to justice.

Civil Rights Now! thinks British Columbian voters with disabilities need:

• Law which gives the Canadian Charter real force and effect in their daily lives.  
• Law which gives them portable, sufficiently-funded, consumer-driven Individualized Funding that is not controlled by CLBC, Health Authorities, MCFD or service providers. 
• Law which gives them funding for test cases involving their civil rights.

Civil Rights Now! will persuade the politicians to pass such laws in British Columbia.

How will Civil Rights Now! persuade the politicians to do this?

Politicians see the light when they feel the heat.

Join Civil Rights Now! and together we’ll turn up the heat.

Here’s how you can support Civil Rights Now!