Maybe it's because the Canadian courts have held that attendants can fly for
free ?  Still seems contradictory to the constitution Act, which might have
been done to blunt the need for "ADA type" legislation.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I must say I'm really surprised that an airline would deny access to a
> disabled passenger.  I've never flown with an attendant and have never felt
> the need to do so.  If someone were ever to say I needed one, I'd point
> them
> to the ADA.  Doesn't Canada have similar laws on the books?
>
> Kat
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Kendall D. Corbett <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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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> > --
> >
> >
> > Kendall
> >
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
> >
> > 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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