[NAGDU] proposed Canadian guidelines

[Jean Menzies]

It would take me a very long time to write about the problems surrounding 
the Canadian standards issue. In the briefest summary, it started about 4 
years ago with the Canadian government thinking it needed to create 
standards for vets with PTSD dogs. They decided standards were the way to 
go. Then, the task got suddenly expanded to include all guide and service 
dogs. The standards were drafted behind closed doors, and they chose to 
ignore ADI and IGDF standards, instead, creating some very unrealistic, 
patronizing standards that violate rights and infringe on provincial 
jurisdiction. In Canada, provinces have considerable autonomy in various 
areas, and guide dog and service dog laws fall under provincial 
jurisdiction, not federal.

The Canadian General Standards Board, who is in charge of crafting the 
standards, is meeting now, reviewing the many submissions that were made 
during the public input phase once we all got wind of what was happening. 
They received over 1000 pages of submissions objecting to the standards. 
People have been actively contacting the prime minister, department 
ministers, MPs, and other public officials trying to get this all stopped.

You can read about it and also read the last draft of the standards at
www.HandsOffOurHarnesses.WordPress.com/

My husband wrote a detailed report on how the standards issue came to be. 
You can read it at the above blog, or on my husband's blog at
www.CanadianGuideDog.WordPress.com/

Jean

-----Original Message----- 
From: Daryl Marie via NAGDU
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:18 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: Daryl Marie
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] proposed Canadian guidelines

Tracy,The proposed standards are not available online at this time (at least 
not without enabling the breaking of copyright law by copying and pasting 
them, as has been done by one blogger)... but here are a few blog posts and 
news articles with commentary on the proposed 
standards.http://www.vomitcomet.org/2017/07/09/my-thoughts-on-the-draft-canadian-service-dog-team-standards/http://www.vomitcomet.org/2017/07/09/my-thoughts-on-the-draft-canadian-service-dog-team-standards/http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/guide-dog-users-providers-say-proposed-rules-disregard-needs-of-visually-impairedhttp://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/guide-dog-users-providers-say-proposed-rules-disregard-needs-of-visually-impairedhttps://blindbeader.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/raising-my-voice/https://blindbeader.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/raising-my-voice/The 
Canadian National Institute of the Blind, as well as several provinces' 
Human Rights Commissions have weighed in on these standards as well.I hope 
this helps.Daryl
----- Original Message -----
From: Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users' 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Sent: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:07:32 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [NAGDU] proposed Canadian guidelines

What are these proposed Canadian guidelines I keep hearing about, and who is
pushing them? I haven't yet heard of any guide dog users who want them, but
maybe there are some? The whole thing sounds like another solution in
search of a problem.

They really propose to monitor playtime? How? Demanding my toy receipts?
"But his favorite toy is this thing I made from a bunch of old socks!"

What's it all about?

Tracy



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