Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) and Ontario Review Board (ORB) hearings moved to electronic hearings. Electronic hearings may work for some service users, but certainly not all. Tribunals have great power to control the lives of people with disabilities, Black and Indigenous people, queer, trans and two-spirited people and […]
A summary of the council’s activities in 2018-2019.
Your experiences with the mental health or addition systems or police can inform the Empowerment Council who will try to make organizational changes that will benefit you and others. Your input directs the kind of changes we seek from these organizations. Unfortunately, we are not resourced to address these issues individually. For individual help you […]
The Empowerment Council’s voice has changed the creation of the law by presenting to federal legislative committees. The EC has influenced the interpretation of the law by intervening in cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and explaining the broader impact of the law beyond the particular case. And the EC has written recommendations to […]
The conservative government of Canada introduced Bill C-15 in February 2009; the Bill was part of its Anti-Drug Strategy to combat illicit drug production and distribution through mandatory prison sentences. The government proposed that the Bill would fight gangs and reduce drug use and drug related crime. This Bill that is supposed to target serious […]