In this January 22, 2014 guestlecture in Prof. Richard Haigh's State and Citizen course at Osgoode Hall Law School, disability rights activist David Lepofsky recounts his volunteer advocacy efforts in 198082, as one of many who successfully campaigned to get Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of rights and Freedoms amended to protect disability equality. Lepofsky's December 12, 1980 presentation to the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada is available at http://is.gd/CDBdmJ

From 19942005, Lepofsky chaired the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee. From 2009 to the present, he chaired the successor Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance.
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