Say it ain’t so, Joe
Dear Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI
Wade MacLauchlan, President UPEI
This is a black day in the history of UPEI, PEI and disability rights.
If you are truly removing the disabled parking on the inner campus then UPEI has the distinction of being the only reference I can find of this regressive behavior.
Your mission is, quoting your website:
The University of Prince Edward Island … exists to encourage and assist people to acquire the skills, knowledge, and understanding necessary for critical and creative thinking, and thus prepare them to contribute to their own betterment and that of society through the development of their full potential. UPEI prides itself of being a placer of higher education.
Is this what you want to teach your students: it’s ok to abuse and discriminate against people with disabilities? Accommodation of minorities under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is for losers. Big corporations can break the law with impunity if they pick on the weak. Human Rights are something you have to put up with.
Of the seven enumerated groups under the Charter, disability is one. Which other group will UPEI management attack next, gays? Or seniors? Or persons of a different race?
Abuse of persons with disabilities is usually based on ignorance, cowardice or greed.
Is the management of UPEI ignorant? I think not: you all have lots of education.
Is there cowardice involved? Would you like to beat up on a cripple today?
Are you so greedy that common sense and decent human rights values are being thrown away?
Be assured that we will continue to advocate, wherever and whenever, that UPEI adopt modern policies related to persons with disabilities until this stain is removed.
Please write back and “say it ain’t so.”
Thank you,
Stephen Pate
PEI Disability Alert
