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Monitoring Disability Policies and Legislation towards Effective Exercise of Rights to Equality and Inclusive Access for Persons with Disabilities: The Case of the Quebec Model

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  • Patrick Fougeyrollas

    (CIRRIS, Department of Anthropology, Laval University, Quebec City G1M 2S8, QC, Canada)

  • Yan Grenier

    (CIRRIS, Department of Anthropology, Laval University, Quebec City G1M 2S8, QC, Canada)

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Quebec’s government established a mechanism to monitor its progress towards achieving the right to equality for people with disabilities. With the goal of strengthening the accountability of public actors, this mechanism is based on legal provisions and inclusive political guidelines. In 2009, the provincial government adopted a policy entitled “Equals in Every Respect: Because Rights Are Meant to Be Exercised” along with other legal dispositions aimed at significantly increasing the social participation of people with disabilities. The Disability Creation Process, a conceptual reference model also known as the Quebec Model, proposes that public actors should be able to identify and act upon environmental obstacles within their respective competences to transform them into facilitators. The challenge facing inclusive policy-monitoring mechanisms is to acquire quantitative and qualitative information-collecting tools and strategies that link the quality of access of the components of the physical and social environment to the quality of the social participation for the various segments of the population with or without disabilities.

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  • Patrick Fougeyrollas & Yan Grenier, 2018. "Monitoring Disability Policies and Legislation towards Effective Exercise of Rights to Equality and Inclusive Access for Persons with Disabilities: The Case of the Quebec Model," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-12, June.
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    1. Badley, Elizabeth M., 2008. "Enhancing the conceptual clarity of the activity and participation components of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(11), pages 2335-2345, June.
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    1. Matthias Forstner, 2022. "Conceptual Models of Disability: The Development of the Consideration of Non-Biomedical Aspects," Disabilities, MDPI, vol. 2(3), pages 1-24, September.

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