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human right. And they must establish effective mechanisms, capable
of preventing and providing meaningful accountability and remedies
for violations of that right.
There is a growing understanding in Canada that “the pandemic
did not cause the crisis; it came along and caused a massive shock to
the long-term care system, shining a harsh light on fractures in a sys-
tem that was ripe for catastrophe.”82 The lack of comprehensiveness
and the absence of effective human rights accountability mechanisms
within our publicly funded system, have created and reinforced dis-
criminatory barriers to care for many disadvantaged groups. For resi-
dents in long-term care, caught in the battle against COVID-19, these
fault lines have proven fatal. Moving forward, “The hope is that the
deaths of so many people will not be in vain, and governments will
finally take serious action.”83
82. Brown, supra note 59.
83. Mohammed Adam, “Long-term Care: Military Support is a Short-term Solution
Only”, Ottawa Citizen (1 May 2020) A7.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International