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To: The Honorable Carla Qualtrough: Ministry of Labour: Minister for Jobs, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion.

Disabled Workers in Canada Seek Section 7 Charter Protection

November 30th, 2020

Hon Carla Qualtrough
Minister of Labour
House of Commons *
Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada
K1A 0A6
Email: [email protected]

Honorable Minister Qualtrough:

Injured, ill and disabled workers have suffered harms seeking fair treatment through administrative justice procedures in Canada for a generation. Law, policy and regulations governing Canada's worker's compensation and safety systems empowers provincial worker's compensation agencies, employers and provincial governments to deny legitimate worker claims for injury and/or illness; physically and psychology suffered by workers in the course of our employment.

Negative outcomes include: imposition of poverty; denial of required professional healthcare services; infliction of psychological harm by way of what's coined sanctuary traumatization; moral injury to worker's families; and in most tragic circumstances, worker death to suicide.

We propose that Provincial/Territorial Workers Compensation Law, Policy and Regulations as drafted and in force today, November 30th, 2020: persist in causing egregious harm to injured, ill, and/or disabled Canadians and by proxy to our families.

We further propose, that as law, policy and regulations are drafted with clear intent to favor compensation agencies, employers and governments: Canadian workers are disempowered when consequences of workplace accidents and exposure result in our need for financial compensation for healthcare, retraining, rehabilitation, recovery and in cases of disability, a earnings loss pension and whatever care is needed moving on through our lives.

When expected protection is denied, avenues for redress are effectively blocked. Due to intentionally constructed language in law, policy and regulations that impedes our timely access to receipt of appropriate justice: struggling for some lasts our remaining life-times.

Injustice demands Justice. Restorative Justice that wrongs are expressed and corrected for.

We believe that the Federal Minister for Jobs, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion is the appropriate representative of the the Government of Canada to whom we raise these concerns.

This is not an official petition; rather, this letter intends to gather as many signatures as possible for purposes of exploration. We do so as those provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms allow.

We are seeking our Government of Canada's protection. As we begin this campaign, we're informed that thousands of Canadian Workers have suffered such egregious violation of rights for over a generation. In British Columbia, this letter represents 280 BC abandoned workers.

We call on the Minister to proactively intervene. These matters demand a National Public Inquiry be initiated in due course by the Government of Canada, which is what we've written you to request.

We await any reply with united resolve.

Respectful Regards,

Darren Michael Gregory
5474 Cory Road
Wynndel BC V0B 2N1
November 30th, 2020

Why is this important?

The purpose of the inquiry we request is to determine the extent of harms put upon injured, ill and/or disabled Canadians in provincial and territorial jurisdictions nationally.

We raise these concerns to ensure as well our own full and fair redress in the form of workers compensation benefits as we are entitled to receive and rightly, legitimately deserve.

We believe that only with a National investigation of provincial law, policy and regulations that govern provincial/territorial occupational health and safety can troubling issues be properly rectified.

Those agencies and agents so empowered by law, policy and regulations have not responded to our direct engagement to address these issues with integrity.

As these issues are of long-standing national concern, we assert that the concerns receive the attention that these matters require as it is in the National interests of all Canadians to do so.

How it will be delivered

This letter will be delivered to the Minister by Email at the close of this campaign.

Links

Updates

2021-09-21 23:53:32 -0400

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Victoria – The Ombudsperson is calling on the province to fix a rarely occurring but significant gap in B.C.’s workers compensation law.

https://bcombudsperson.ca/investigative_report/severed-trust-enabling-worksafebc-to-do-the-right-thing-when-its-mistakes-hurt-injured-workers/

2021-05-13 03:46:32 -0400

May 12th, 2021
Update: DMG
Maybe the Historic Compromise can be Compromised?
#WorkersCompIsARight
#FightWCB

https://fightwcb.blogspot.com/2021/05/maybe-historic-compromise-can-be.html?showComment=1620891770574#c3880172101540214277

2021-05-12 01:28:43 -0400

May 11th, 2021
Update
Darren Gregory
Citizens Forum Interview with Paul Taylor
Thank-you to Norm and Paul

1). "Paul Taylor is an injured worker in Ontario that has been struggling to get benefits for an injury he received at work 25 years ago. During his tussle with Workplace Safety & Insurance Board Ontario (WSIB). He is using his skills learned as a paralegal and haven taken parts of his case to the Supreme Court of Canada in the his pursuit of justice to organize a National Charter Challenge Class action against the Worker’s Compensation Boards (WCB)in each province.

The process, claim details as well as a resource of other material is on his Web Site fightwcb.org."

2021-05-12 01:28:00 -0400

2). "Paul is uniting with injured worker groups across the country to file his claim and have the worker groups file there own related claims in the provinces across the country. While meeting and talking with many injured workers across the country and worldwide it became apparent that the methods used by the various WCBs are consistent across jurisdictions. Joining together in related national action the injured workers are presenting a united stand against the abuses of the WCBs.

Paul urges injured workers in Canada to contact him and be part of the groups filing the challenge – contact Paul via his web site fightwcb.org"

https://vimeo.com/derbyhat/classaction

2021-05-07 00:41:30 -0400

May 6th, 2021
Update

Here are links to the BC Report on Workers Compensation conducted by Janet Patterson.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/government/ministries-organizations/ministries/labour/work_comp_review_2019_-_final_report.pdf

https://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/482/2020/08/Addendum-Report-FINAL1.pdf

2021-05-01 00:09:14 -0400

From February this year.

https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/manitoban-on-disability-assistance-wins-right-to-appeal-being-forced-to-go-on-old-age-pension-at-65/338174

2021-04-30 00:56:49 -0400

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong: there is a garden. I will meet you there.” ~ Rumi

“A nation should not be judged by how it treats it’s highest citizens. But, by how (a nation) treats it’s lowest ones.” ~ Nelson Mandela

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/human-rights-protection-canada-charter-freedoms-must-come-gregory

2021-04-30 00:52:18 -0400

April 29th, 2021: Update
Darren Gregory

Thank you to Fred P. for taking this action.

Cheers, my friend.

Darren

"Fred P. on VOCM OPEN LINE WITH PADDY DALY about the Workers Compensation Boards and discussing the 45,000,000,000 lawsuit against WCB's and other issues injured workers have to deal with.

Please start program at 17:27 and it ends at 27:10. Thank you."
https://soundcloud.com/vocm/openline-wednesday-april-28th

2021-04-30 00:46:39 -0400

Yesterday: The Class-Action was filed. Thanks to Paul T. and the others for this work.

https://fightwcb.org/files/Press%20Release.pdf

This book validates our positions.

"The use of ineffective regulation appears to represent INTENTIONALLY prioritizing profitability over safety. And the state has contained the ability of workers to resist this agenda by shaping the discourse around injury and the operation of these systems."

~ Dr. Bob Barnetson, The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada: 2010.
https://www.aupress.ca/books/120178-political-economy-of-workplace-injury-in-canada/

2021-04-30 00:42:08 -0400

"Examining injury compensation reveals how seemingly neutral aspects of claims adjudication and management financially advantage employers and limit the ability of workers to resist unsafe work."

2021-04-30 00:41:23 -0400

"Together, this analysis suggests that the prevention and compensation of workplace injuries are not solely technical or legal undertakings, but intensely political ones that entail serious consequences — most often for workers. This conclusion is quite upsetting. But the facts are difficult to dispute."

2021-04-30 00:40:20 -0400

~ Dr. Bob Barnetson, The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada: 2010 www.aupress.ca/books/120178-poli…injury-in-canada/

2021-04-27 23:31:02 -0400

April 27th, 2021

Today: With both doors still open for me with WCAT, I filed for Reconsideration of my case. They'll get that tomorrow to add to action taken by courageous workers on all our behalf in another part of our country.

https://fightwcb.org/files/Press%20Release.pdf

This campaign will stay up through whatever is to come.

To date: We've received no word at all from any level of government with authority.

I'm up for this challenge: I'm working to detach from the rage.

2021-04-27 23:25:12 -0400

We need no further validation than this as far as I'm concerned:

"The use of ineffective regulation appears to represent intentionally prioritizing profitability over safety. And the state has contained the ability of workers to resist this agenda by shaping the discourse around injury and the operation of these systems."

https://www.aupress.ca/books/120178-political-economy-of-workplace-injury-in-canada/

Respect to All,
Darren Gregory

2021-04-17 19:25:52 -0400

April 17th, 2021

Update: Part 3.

My personal case is with the U.N.

How long for action? It will take as long as it takes. We're not alone in this world. These systems seem swamped, dealing with cases like ours. I filed my complaint on behalf of myself and persons with disabilities in Canada coast-to-coast.

Dana's Quant's Firm: See Below.

https://www.hom-law.com/lawyers/dana-g-quantz/

U.N. Complaints Info is here:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/tbpetitions/pages/hrtbpetitions.aspx