PM Justin Trudeau has refused to act on the Liberal Party of Canada's National Autism Commitments

PM Justin Trudeau has refused to act on the Liberal 

Party of Canada's National Autism Commitments

Today I received a Summer Survey from the  Liberal Party of Canada. After answering the specific questions posed in the survey I answered the open question the survey offered essentially stating what action I would like to see the Liberal Party of Canada Pursue.  This was my response:

I have advocated for 20 years for a National Autism Strategy alongside fellow parents of children with severe autism disorders and Liberals such as Andy Scott.  In Winnipeg in 2016 the National Liberal Party passed a Medicare for Autism Treatment resolution.  ACT ON IT! 

The survey was part of a funding drive by the Liberal Party of Canada asking persons participating to contribute money to the Party.  I refuse to provide a single penny to the Liberal Party of Canada.  They campaigned in 2015 on a National Autism Strategy and made a commitment (Matt DeCourcy here in Fredericton) to enact a National Autism Strategy if elected, they  passed WPG2016 Resolution calling for Medicare Coverage for Autism .... they have done nothing on either commitment.  In fact in April 2017 PM Trudeau visited Fredericton and when I received the microphone to ask a question he waved me off like a coward!

The  Liberal Party of Canada refused to fulfill its autism commitments.

The  Liberal Party of Canada can not be trusted.

Autism Mother Katharine Cukier Calls Out Trudeau Liberals and Miriam Foundation for Betrayal of Autistic Children, Adults and Their Families

Katharine Cukier is the mother of an autistic son in Quebec who has called out the Trudeau Liberal Government  for donating $20,000,000 to for 2 organizations, one in Quebec and one in BC to "HELP" Canadians Impacted by Autism by paying for two "autism resource" web sites.  I agree with Ms Cukier. 

As a parent autism advocate I have advocated for early evidence based autism intervention, autism trained teachers and teacher aides and autism specific learning placement options and adult autism residential care and treatment.  I have asked my son's alleged MP Matt DeCourcey several times if the Trudeau government will be implementing the #WPG2016 E-03 Policy Resolution Medicare Coverage for the Treatment of Autism which was passed with strong support by the Liberal membership in Winnipeg in 2016 but he has not had the common decency to answer my question. 

Visit  Katharine Cukier's  Facebook page for her series of powerful comments on the falsehoods and betrayal of autistic persons and their families by the Miriam Foundation and the federal government.

Katharine Cukier shared her post.

February 28 at 10:40am · 

You offer me a $10 million dollar website, when the best outcome for my son with autism is to DIE before me? Give me a fucking break. Totally unacceptable.

Katharine Cukier

February 28 at 8:27am · 

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Dear PM Trudeau Have You Forgotten Canadians with Autism? Have You Forgotten #WPG2016

Dear PM Trudeau,  Have you Forgotten?  

PM Trudeau Have you forgotten children and adults with autism? Have You Forgotten #WPG2016? Have you forgotten Resolution E-03 the Medicare Coverage for the Treatment of Autism Resolution?  Have you turned your backs on children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders needing effective,  evidence based treatment? At #WPG2016 the Liberal Party of Canada, as stated by Bob Rae, expressed overwhelming support for Medicare Coverage  for the Treatment of Autism so WHY has PM Justin Trudeau failed to act to ensure Parliament ensures effective, evidence based treatment for all Canadians with autism disorders regardless of their age or province of residence?  PM Trudeau could you take a few minutes out of your busy day and talk to a gentleman named Bob Rae about autism and the need to ensure effective, evidence based treatment for autism across Canada from sea to shining sea?

PM Justin Trudeau appears to have turned his back on the Liberal Party of Canada's #WPG2016 Resolution calling for Medicare Coverage for the Treatment of Autism.

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Prominent Liberal Bob Rae expressed very strong support for the Liberal Party of Canada   #WPG2016  Medicare Coverage for Treatment of Autism Resolution which passed with overwhelming support. 

Please Think Twice Before Donating to the Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada is the Party that ... it seemed ... had made a giant step forward to improve the life outcomes of Canadians with autism disorders by passing a resolution calling for medicare coverage for autism.  Yet I was refused the opportunity by PM Trudeau himself to ask him whether he intended to honor that resolution and if so when. Subsequently the executive of Medicare for Autism NOW! was given the brush off when it attempted to get a straight answer from the smiling face PM about medicare coverage for autism and whether he would honour his party's commitment to providing medicare coverage for autism. 

Now the Liberal Party of Canada which passed the Winnipeg 2016 resolution calling for medicare coverage for autism is asking for your money.  This is the Party whose leader  ignored and brushed off his own national party's resolution calling for Medicare for Autism.  Please do not donate to this  party whose leader  ignores his own party's resolution, who ignores the Liberal Party's call to provide medicare coverage for autism.

If you want to see medicare coverage of autism  for yourself or for a loved one please think twice before donating to the federal Liberal Party.

Medicare for Autism NOW! Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau

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Medicare for autism Now! Society
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April 2, 2017                                                                                                          
“OPEN LETTER”

Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, PC, MP                                                              
House of Commons                                                                                      
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A9

Dear Prime Minister:

Today is “Autism Awareness Day”, when some suggest we should celebrate this neurological disorder as just another way of being. This is bizarre and offensive in equal measure.

Last May, delegates to the Liberal Party of Canada’s national convention, held in Winnipeg, recognized the right way to respond to this national epidemic of staggering proportions when they overwhelmingly passed a priority health-care policy resolution calling upon the Government of Canada to work with provinces and territories to include under our supposedly universal MEDICARE plan science-based treatment for autism spectrum disorder (“ASD”), specifically Applied Behavioural Analysis. A copy of the resolution is enclosed. This initiative was assisted and encouraged by our not-for-profit organization, the Medicare for autism Now! Society (“MFAN”).

To date, almost one year later, you and your Cabinet colleagues have failed to do what your extra-parliamentary party has instructed and literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians desperately need. This inaction is in spite of the Government of Canada having concluded “Health Accords” with every province except Manitoba, most of which purport to involve an emphasis on increased federal funding for mental health issues. Why do you and your colleagues continue to ignore the plight of persons afflicted with ASD and their families, and continue to deny appropriate funding for what our courts have long ago ruled to be the medically necessary treatment of this often devastating neurological disorder?

According to the report “PAY NOW OR PAY LATER, Autism Families in Crisis” released by a Senate committee in March, 2007, the number of ASD diagnoses was then one in 166, which indicated that, fully ten years ago, there were some 48,000 children, aged 19 and under, and 144,000 adults living in Canada with this condition.

Today, in North America the incidence rate of ASD is estimated by the world-renown Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, to be one in 68. We are reliably advised that this ratio translates into roughly 129,000 children and 386,000 adults living in Canada with ASD. Clearly, it is long past time for action, as has been undertaken in the United States where, at last count, fully 44 states require health insurance providers to include in their policies coverage for science-based treatment for ASD, specifically Applied Behaviour Analysis.  No further consideration should be given to expensive proposals calling for yet another self-serving bureaucracy and perennial gab-fests, such as the one recently put forward by the Canadian Autism Partnership Project. As a former premier of Ontario, and interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Hon. Bob Rae, said, in his letter of April 21, 2016 endorsing the enclosed resolution, “It is long past time to end this unacceptable discrimination by including treatment for this neurological disorder where it rightfully belongs in our country’s health-care system.”

In February, 2016, in talking about old age pension entitlements, you said, “How we treat vulnerable people in our society is very important.” We agree. There can be few more vulnerable people in Canada today than those who suffer from untreated, moderate to severe ASD. In the mandate letter you sent to Health Minister Jane Philpott, upon her admission to Cabinet, you stated, inter alia, “It is my expectation that you will engage constructively and thoughtfully and add priorities to your agenda when appropriate…We will be a government that governs for all Canadians…As Minister of Health, your overarching goal will be to strengthen our publicly-funded universal health care system and ensure it adapts to new challenges.”

We sent an e-mail to the Health Minister, on November 20^th of last year, asking her what steps were being taken to implement this long overdue and urgently needed policy change. To date, we have yet to receive an acknowledgement of our communication. We have had a similar lack of response from Finance Minister Morneau to a letter, dated June 22, 2016, we sent him respecting this issue. A copy of each communication is enclosed. So much for a government committed to openness and engagement.

What is it going to take to get you and your colleagues in the Government of Canada to recognize the seriousness of this health-care crisis (identified as such by the Senate ten years ago) and to respond by doing the morally right and fiscally responsible thing through ensuring appropriate funding within MEDICARE for the science-based treatment of ASD, specifically Applied Behaviour Analysis?

Yours sincerely,
Jean Lewis           David Marley,
Director, MFAN    Director, MFAN

Welcome To Canada

 Well said Prime Minister Trudeau.

I am very proud of our Prime Minister for tweeting this statement of welcome to all refugees.