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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><u>April
6th, 2016, 6:30pm <br>
United Steelworkers Union Hall, 25 Cecil
Street Toronto</u><br>
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lang="EN-US">The Montoya family was
recently deemed <b><u><span><i>inadmissible</i></span></u></b>
for Permanent Residency because their 13 year old
son Nico, who has Down syndrome, might pose an
'excessive demand' on Canadian
social services.<span> </span>Does this decision go
against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
that guards against the discrimination
of any person based on physical or mental
disability?</span></p>
<span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Historically,
ideas of genetic defectiveness and social burden have
been
attached to immigrants. <font face="Tahoma">Do c</font>urrent
immigration policies reflect
deep-running ableist, racist and eugenic <font
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lang="EN-US">It is time for Canada
to take a new look at its immigration policies.</span></p>
</font><b>Please join us April 6th and show solidarity
for disability rights and for
the Montoya family.</b><br>
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Discussants include: <br>
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<li>Felipe Montoya (York University)<br>
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<li><span
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Nazami
(Senior Lawyer, Jackman, Nazami &
Associates)</span><span
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<li><span
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Roman""></span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">John
Rae
(Council of Canadians with Disabilities)</span><span
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New Roman","serif""></span></li>
<li><span
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Roman""> </span></span></span><span
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Joseph
(McMaster University)</span><span
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New Roman","serif""></span></li>
<li><span
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Roy
Hanes
(Carleton University)</span></li>
<li><span
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face="Tahoma">Michael Bach (Canadian
Association for Community Living)</font></span><br>
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Natalie Spagnuolo (Doctoral Student,
York University)</font><br>
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For more information, contact <u><a
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face="Tahoma"><b><u><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Felipe Montoya</span></u></b></font></font></font></font><font
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style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Felipe Montoya was hired
as Professor
of Environmental Studies at York University in 2012.<span>
</span>As the James and Joanne Love Chair of
Neotropical Conservation, Felipe has taught the
Master’s course “Ecologies and
Sustainability in the Global South”, and has
directed the Las Nubes project, a
permanent research, education and community outreach
project based in a
biological corridor in southern Costa Rica.<span>
</span>Three years ago he applied for permanent
residency to Canada.<span> </span>Last month he
and his family were deemed inadmissible,
because the 13 year old son has Down syndrome with
“Moderate Intellectual
Disability”.<span> </span>Felipe will present the
details of his case.</span></p>
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</span><u><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
Hadayt Nazami<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Hadayt is a
refugee himself. He
had to flee his Kurdish home town while
still a teenager; he was recognized by
the UNHCR as a Convention refugee and
resettled in Canada. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">He has long
worked as a human
rights advocate, inspired by his own
personal experiences. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Hadayt attended
York
University, receiving an Honours BA in 1998,
a Master’s degree (MA) in
Political Science in 1999 and his Juris
Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School of
York University in 2003. He was admitted to
the Ontario Bar in 2004. He has
practised law together with Barbara Jackman
since 2003.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Hadayt
specializes in
immigration, refugee, all categories of
inadmissibility, constitutional and
national security law, with a particular
focus on advancing issues related to
human rights. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> He has
participated in many
legal proceedings in all levels of Courts,
involving refugee and immigration
law, Charter rights and human rights. Hadayt
has been involved in defending
against the Security Certificates in the
Federal Court and Federal Court of
Appeal, and he acted on behalf of Ahmad El
Maati before the Iaccobucci
Inquiry, which found that Mr. El Maati, as
well as Muayyed Nurredin and Abullah
Almalki, were detained and tortured abroad
with the involvement of Canadian
government officials. He has been active in
advocacy for refugees from
many communities including Tamil refugees
who traveled to Canada by boat. He
was co-counsel for George Galloway, in which
Canada’s charter of rights for
freedom of expression was engaged, and for
the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF),
challenging non-funding based on political
opinion.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Hadayt
participates in ongoing
educational programs; he has taught at the
Downtown Legal Services Clinic of
the University of Toronto and regularly
teaches as a guest lecturer at several
Canadian Universities. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><u><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">John
Rae</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">During the past
40 years, John has
been a board member of many human and
disability rights organizations,
including Co-chair of the Coalition on Human
Rights for the Handicapped, which
secured the first human rights coverage for
persons with disabilities in
Ontario. John is a Past President of the
Alliance for Equality of Blind
Canadians (AEBC), the Canadian Legal,
Advocacy, Information and Research
Association of the Disabled (CLAIR), and PAL
Reading Service. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">John is now 2nd
Vice Chair of the
Council of Canadians With Disabilities
National Council, and Chair of its
Social Policy Committee. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> John is also a
member of the
Boards of Directors of ARCH Disability Law
Centre, Injured Workers Consultants,
and the Executive of the Association of
Community Legal Clinics of Ontario. He
is also a member of the Canadian Museum on
Human Rights' Inclusive Design &
Accessibility Committee, and the ODSP Action
Coalition.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ameil Joseph
<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ameil Joseph is
an Assistant
Professor in the School of Social Work at
McMaster University. He draws
on perspectives of critical mental health,
postcolonial theory, critical race
theory, and critical disability studies in
his writing and research. One of the
broad areas he has focused on is the
confluence of criminal justice, mental
health and immigration systems. He comes to
this work with over a decade
of experience in the mental health field in
areas of assertive community
treatment, community-based early
intervention, supportive housing, crisis
respite, and governance settings. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Joseph has
been instrumental in the
recent establishment of Hamilton’s
Anti-Racism Resource Centre. Ameil is
also the author of: <i>Deportation and the
confluence of violence within
forensic mental health and immigration
systems </i>published by
Palgrave-McMillan.
A historiographical post-colonial analysis
of the practice of deportation in
Canada for those identified as
“undesirable”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Roy Hanes</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Roy Hanes, MSW,
PhD. began his social
work career as the senior social worker on
the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the
Royal Ottawa Hospital in 1980. Although his
primary social work focus was
providing individual, marital and family
counselling to people with spinal cord
injuries Roy was involved with inpatient
groups, outpatient groups and family
educational and support groups. In addition
to his work at the rehabilitation
centre Roy became involved in community
organizing with people with
disabilities and he is a founding member of
the Ottawa Carleton Independent
Living Centre.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Besides the
social work and
disability related work, Roy was a founding
member of the Canadian Disability
Studies Association and he has been an
active member of disability rights
organizations such as the Council of
Canadians with Disabilities (Social Policy
Committee) and he has been an executive
member of the Canadian Centre for
Disability Studies. At the local level he
has been a board member of the Ottawa
Independent Living Resource Centre and he is
a founding member of the Committee
On Disability and Abuse. During his 18 years
at Carleton University Roy has
been a member of most committees which deal
with the needs of students with
disabilities. In short, Roy has 30 years of
experience and expertise
working in various capacities with people
with disabilities. (practitioner,
community organizer, teacher, researcher,
volunteer, advocate.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Michael Bach</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Michael Bach,
PhD. is Adjunct
Professor of Disability Studies at Ryerson
University (Toronto), Executive
Vice-President, Canadian Association for
Community Living and Managing Director
of IRIS – Institute for Research and
Development on Inclusion and Society.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">For over 25
years he has undertaken
research and development in Canada and
internationally on ways to advance the
full inclusion and human rights of persons
with intellectual disabilities. His
publications cover disability theory, policy
and practice in a range of areas
including legal capacity, education,
employment, and funding and delivery of
community-based services. <br>
<br>
Michael Bach holds a Ph. D. in Sociology and
Equity Studies from the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto, and is
currently finishing an Open Society
Foundations Fellowship to continue his
international comparative research on the
right to legal capacity for people
with significant intellectual and cognitive
disabilities. <br>
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