Is the issue what he'd do in case of an emergency?? A blind person might
actually have advantages in that case.  If it's because he can't get out in
case of a crash, what about those of us with mobility impairments?  My chair
will be in the belly of the plane, yet I fly by myself frequently.  I've
never been seriously challenged, although I have been asked if someone is
meeting me at the aiport.  Never by airline personnel, more often by other
passengers.  I wonder if this started when a fellow passenger saw "the poor
deaf and blind ma" all by himself. Often when I say I'm taking a cab, people
look like they're surprised about it.  Mag, when you fly, do you always go
with an attendant?  I figure if I'm confident enough with my skills as
someone with a disability to travel alone, how am I, or anyone else, in a
position to make that judgement for someone else?  Is there a Canadian ADAPT
group?  It seems to me that what Air Canada is trying to do flies in the
face of the Constitution Act of 1982

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/annex_e.html#mobility


*Equality Rights*
 *Equality before and under law and equal protection and benefit of law* *
15.*   (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the
right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without
discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race,
national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or *physical
disability*.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> REMIND ME!!!!!
>
> THIS IS 2009?
>
> ON THE EVE OF PASSOVER??????????????
>
>
>
> http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
>
>
> 7 Apr 2009
>  The Gazette
> CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
>
>  Disabled man's right to travel  alone challenged
> Air Canada to argue in Federal Court
>
>
> OTTAWA - In a case that balances passenger safety and the rights of the
> disabled, Air Canada is challenging a deaf and blind man's contention that
> he should be allowed to fly without an attendant.
>
> The airline will argue in Federal Court that not allowing Eddy Morten to
> fly
> alone is justified discrimination.
>
> Morten of Burnaby, B.C., counters that he has a system for safe air travel
> with his service dog, he has been self-sufficient all his life, and that he
> has made many past trips on planes, trains and buses.
>
> "I have never needed a babysitter," Morten, a father of two and a
> Paralympic
> bronze medallist in judo, wrote in an email.
> "Air Canada routinely allows people who are blind, people who cannot walk
> and people who may be very disabled due to aging to travel unattended. Why
> not me?"
>
> Air Canada is fighting Morten in court after losing a Canadian Human Rights
> Tribunal decision in January.
>
> The tribunal did not order the airline to allow Morten to travel alone, but
> said he had the right to be assessed for self-reliance rather than
> automatically ordered to bring an attendant.
>
> The tribunal, ruling that Air Canada had not met its obligation to
> accommodate Morten to the point of "undue hardship," ordered the airline to
> pay Morten $10,000 in damages. Air Canada is not contesting the award.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

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