Today marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a time to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. As the country’s largest employer and service provider, the #GovernmentOfCanada is committed to building a diverse, accessible and inclusive public service that truly reflects the population it serves. Learn more about accessibility in the public service: https://ow.ly/wibn50Uk4s0 #IDPD2024
While on assignment for CIC in a South Asian country heavily affected by air pollution, I suffered retinal detachment in 2006. My eye was saved in extremis, but not without losing 30% of my peripheral vision. An embarrassing handicap, it seems, for my employer, the Government of Canada. Guy J.J.P. Lafond (VELO) - In arbitration since 2018 at the CRTESPF. Still unresolved in 2024!
MSc, PhD. Sovereign Innovator, Entrepreneur, Shamanic Alchemist Practitioner, Former Public Servant - Security & Intelligence, Emergency Management, Policy, Governance and Risk Management
1moEach day not just one day, the rights and well being of persons with disabilities need to be protected and respected. The govt has failed in it’s committment. Not only in preventing employees from sustaining permanent injuries and in appropriately compensating them. Sunlife and WSIB processes drag an injured worker through the mud and no one gives a dam that it makes things intolerable.