The Accessible Canada Act: a political expression of disability rights as human rights

Michael J. Prince

Chapter 17 in Research Handbook on Disability Policy, 2023, pp 217-232 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) as a case study of disability rights as human rights in an advanced liberal welfare regime. It addresses three sets of questions. First, what role did disabled peoples’ organizations serve in the development of this law? _What opportunities existed for their participation in public consultations and legislative processes? Second, what kind of human rights approach to disability does the Accessible Canada Act signify? What is the scope and nature of rights adopted? Third, what are the likely symbolic and substantive effects of the Act on policies and practices, on popular understandings of disability, and on disability movement organizations? _Overall, the ACA is about more than simply enacting old rights in new legislation. It exhibits distinctive qualities in its statutory provisions on human rights, notably in the categories of political/democratic rights and cultural rights.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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