Disability Rights, and Wrongs: The David Lepodcast

Smart Strategies, Real Change: Lessons from a Landmark Autism Campaign - Pt 2

Episode Summary

In this episode, Bruce McIntosh continues his remarkable story of disability rights advocacy: The Ontario Autism Coalition’s clash with the Ontarian government over funding policies for children’s Autism therapy. This time, he highlights successes they had during Kathleen Wynne’s term as well as how they achieved those positive outcomes. He also gives his first-hand account of a major controversy that took place in 2019, when Doug ford began his term as premiere of Ontario. Ford brazenly broke his promise to eliminate the massive wait list of children awaiting funding for therapy. Nearly a decade of progress was wiped out in a single press announcement. Bruce, who was a policy advisor for the government at the time, resigned in protest at great personal cost. The resignation became a massive story in it of itself. Clip of “Doug Ford is a Liar” sourced from Canadian Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiPY2pLbXOg