FYI.............. ?Othering Tracy Latimer: Why Robert Latimer?s Day Parole is Wrong? Thursday March 20, 2008, 12-2pm McLaughlin College, Senior Common Room 140 Sponsor: York Centre for Practical Ethics and McLaughlin College A presentation and discussion with Prof. Geoffrey Reaume, acting graduate program director in York's Critical Disability Studies Program and a professor in the School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health. The recent decisions of the National Parole Board to first refuse and then, upon appeal, to grant day parole for Robert Latimer has given rise to the latest controversy about his punishment for the murder of his 12-year-old daughter, Tracy Latimer. Crucial to this topic has been the "othering" of Tracy Latimer, a child with cerebral palsy, and how her life has been devalued as a life not worth living by those who support this murder. Robert Latimer's actions and his supporters' claims will be compared with eugenics atrocities and how the bodies and minds of people with disabilities have historically been "othered" to justify discrimination, persecution and murder. This presentation will ask: What are the dangers to Canadian society now that Robert Latimer has been granted day parole? What are the possible repercussions for the civil liberties and human rights of people with disabilities by the position of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which supports the perpetrator of this crime? Is it possible for people with disabilities to be fully "included" in Canadian society when there are vocal proponents across the country justifying the murder of a child by her father because she was disabled? Ultimately, the need to keep Robert Latimer in prison will be shown to be a matter of common humanity and justice if the life of Tracy Latimer, and the lives of all people with disabilities, are to have any value in our society. His early release from prison therefore represents both a danger for people with disabilities across Canada and an injustice to Tracy Latimer. R.S.V.P. to Vicky Carnevale: [log in to unmask]