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VULNERABLE422 articulation of legal reform projects, or it may encompass grassroots disability rights organizing.6 In bold relief, COVID-19 has revealed the financial, social, and political structures that exclude persons with disabilities. That exclu- sion is predictable and reminiscent of historical eugenic strategies to ration access to scarce resources, reproduction, and immigration.7 At the heart of those utilitarian decisions are systematically biased quality of life assessments that are predicated on the inherently dis- criminatory notion that disabled lives are not worth living. In Part I, we explore the accessibility of emergency preparedness. In Part II, we turn to a discussion of the economic implications of COVID-19. In Part III, we discuss institutionalization and its relation to COVID-19. Accessibility of Emergency Preparedness The  Accessibility  for  Ontarians  with  Disabilities  Act  (the AODA)8 and its associated Accessibility Standards9 were adopted over a staggered period of years after 2005 and set out guidelines for people with disabilities, but largely have no coherent enforcement mechanism. Similar legislation has been more recently adopted in a few other prov- inces, such as British Columbia, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia, culmi- nating in the passage of the federal Accessible Canada Act.10 Section 13 of the Integrated Accessibility Standards requires the Government of Ontario and other obligated organizations to, upon request, pro- vide emergency procedures, plans, and public safety information in an accessible format or with appropriate communication.11 Article 11 of the Convention  on  the  Rights  of  Persons  with  Disabilities (CRPD), to 6. See Ravi Malhotra, ed, Disability  Politics  in  a  Global  Economy:  Essays  in  Honour  of  Marta Russell, (New York: Routledge, 2016). 7. Geoffrey Reaume, “Eugenics Incarceration and Expulsion: Daniel G. and Andrew T.’s Deportation from 1928 Toronto, Canada” in Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman & Allison Carey, eds, Disability  Incarcerated:  Imprisonment  and  Disability  in  the  United States and Canada, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) at 63; Ena Chadha, “‘Mentally Defectives’ Not Welcome: Mental Disability in Canadian Immigration Law, 1859–1927” (2008) 28:1 Disability Studies Quarterly 1. 8. RSO 2005, c 11. 9. O Reg 191/11 [Integrated  Accessibility  Standards]. 10. Bill M-219, British  Columbia  Accessibility  Act, 3rd Sess, 41st Parl, British Columbia, 2018; Bill 26, The  Accessibility  for  Manitobans  Act, 2nd Sess, 4th Leg, Manitoba, 2013; An  Act  Respecting  Accessibility  in  Nova  Scotia; 3rd Sess, 62nd Leg, Nova Scotia, 2017. 11. Integrated  Accessibility  Standards,  supra note 9, s 13.