Just came across the following which resonated with me:
I have become suspicious of the value of some initiatives over the years e.g. that the CFSAC is set up partly to allow people vent.
Anyway, that's not to say such initiatives can't be useful. It's just that having a forum or outlet to vent is not progress by itself.
(this was highlighted in the National ME/FM Action Network magazine)The BC Government is not ignorant of what disabled people need. It knows how badly it has treated disabled people since the nineteenth century. But the Government’s priority is how to dodge having to act on the facts.
Experience has taught the Government that many disabled people and their families are suckers for what Public Relation fraudsters call “stakeholder engagement.” Stakeholder engagement is a magic show intended to create an illusion of democracy. And like all magic shows, stakeholder engagement only works if the audience wants to be fooled.
from: http://beaconnews.ca/surrey/2013/12/disabled-needs-no-secret-to-bc-government/
I have become suspicious of the value of some initiatives over the years e.g. that the CFSAC is set up partly to allow people vent.
Anyway, that's not to say such initiatives can't be useful. It's just that having a forum or outlet to vent is not progress by itself.