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?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. 
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