Systemic Discrimination or Bad Service? Effective Strategies to Challenge Systemic Barriers in Public & Private Services

To promote policy change and effective legal strategies on systemic discrimination in public and private services, McGill’s Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and Concordia’s Center for Research-Action on Race Relations will host a Forum entitled “Systemic Discrimination or Bad Service?”

In light of recent experiences in civil rights litigation in Quebec where situations of systemic discrimination against racialized people and people with disabilities are often dismissed by authorities as merely “bad service”, the Forum will seek to develop an effective conceptual framework on systemic discrimination in the service delivery sector; to examine how to apply an intersectional analysis to this approach; and to identify the strategies and actions, including legal strategies, to address systemic barriers in law and public policy that deny equal access to disadvantaged groups.

The Forum will address systemic discrimination in education, health and social services, public and private security services, and transport and commercial services.

David Lepofsky, nationally recognized disability rights lawyer and Chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, will be the keynote speaker.

For complete details, please download the program.

Registration fees are $20 for students and people with low incomes; $40 for NGOs; and $75 for professionals and institutions (taxes included). For reservation and registration, please email your name and billing information to crarrforum [at] gmail.com. We accept Interac payment.

Lunch, coffee and refreshments will be provided.

A request for accreditation for 6.5 hours of continuing legal education has been made to a recognized provider.