I found that article this morning, and it made me really angry, so i decide to translate it, so the rest of Canada (and other English people) could help! And maybe we could change this!
The revolution of the disabled
If the Barlagne family was evicted of Canada, because their kid was a girl, every woman around world would rise up and the government would reverse its decision.
If the Barlagne family was evicted of Canada, because their kid was a French (from France), every French people (from France) around the world would rise up and the government would reverse its decision.
But the Barlagne family is evicted of Canada because their child is disabled, and all disabled people around the world have a hard time to rise up so the government take benefits of it.
It’s so easy to evict a disabled person; you just have to roll it over the border.
The disabled are the last second-class citizens of so-called advanced societies.
The sexism decrease gradually. The racism decrease gradually. But the rejections towards people with disabilities stay the same. There is not even a word to describe the intolerance toward the disabled people. The disablism? This is not in the dictionary. How do you want that something decrease when the word for describe it doesn’t exist?
We didn’t talk about sexism during the 19th century. We didn’t talk about racism in cotton fields.
The inhuman treatment that Rachel Barlagne is subject to raises awareness that goes beyond immigration law.
You found my examples completely stupid to expel someone because it was a girl or French. Why do not you think so stupid to expel someone because she is disabled?
The day of our birth, we don’t choose our sex, our race, or our physical capabilities.
We born boy or girl, French, Quebecer, Jewish, black, yellow or blue, healthy or lame. The society has a duty to accept every child as they are. It’s the right to live. The most fundamental right. And he must be the same for everybody.
I hear the government say that disability isn’t the same as sex or race because disability is an undue burden to the society.
And that’s where the problem is. The disabled people aren’t as important as normal people because they live at the expense of normal people.
As the women use to live at the expense of men. As slaves use to live at the expense of their master.
When one does not represent an economic power, it does not count.
The disabled people don’t count. So we can do whatever we want of them.
By what right, an employee may decide that a child is an undue burden? Who knows what will Rachel? Who knows what will Rachel do?
She makes her parents gladness. It’s already a lot.
If anything, she will be a cashier, a lawyer, florist or she will have a blog on Cyberpresse.
Disabled person aren’t condemned to languish.
What may be rooted prejudice that prevents the damn disabled flourish? This look superior and condescending crippling.
I am myself, a disabled person. And my taxes contribute to the salary of those officials who decide that disabled children have no future in Canada. That they are burdens.
When they were born here, we don’t have other choice than tolerate them. But when they are out comers, we send them back home. Too expensive.
We need to see the evidence. If the Barlagne family had a dog, she could stay in Canada. But she has disabled children, so get out!
It is more than time as society to realise the despicable treatment we subjected the disabled.
A treatment that we won’t subject anyone else.
It's all well and good that commentators are outraged is all well and good that the party leaders accused the Harper government, but until there is not a mass movement, the situation will not change.
To lead the fight for women, it was necessary first that the women get to the barricades. To lead the struggle of blacks, it was first necessary that blacks rise to the barricades. When you have a hard time tying your shoes, it is difficult to mount the barricades.
Disabled people are willing to take to the streets, but it takes peopleto push them.
Is it because someone is not able to rebel that can be abused?
The revolution of the disabled does not scare anyone and that's whywe continue to treat them as subhuman, sub-women.
Excessive burdens are not the people who have no legs or no arms.
Excessive burdens, it is people who have no heart.
And I find my country very heavy this morning.
French source(with picture of the family): http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/laporte/2011/04/16/la-revolution-des-handicapes/
My reactions: I just can't believe it! How can we do that! Damn it she's a little girl! Common, can't we help that human to stay here in quebec! She doesn't deserve to be evict just because she's disabled! She still is a HUMAN!!!
