People With Disabilities
First hearing-impaired (deaf) person elected in Canada: Gary Malkowski Ontario New Democratic Party MPP York East (East York) 1990–1995
First paraplegic person elected in Alberta: Kent Hehr Alberta Liberal Party MLA Calgary-Buffalo (2008–Present)
First quadriplegic person elected to a Canadian legislature: Doug Mowat BC Social Credit MLA Vancouver-Little Mountain 1983–1991
First quadriplegic person elected to the House of Commons: Steven Fletcher, Conservative, Charleswood—St. James, Manitoba, 2004–present
First quadriplegic mayor : Sam Sullivan, Mayor of Vancouver, November 2005 - December 2008
Read more about this topic: Electoral Firsts In Canada
Famous quotes containing the words people and/or disabilities:
“... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The more I read and the more I talked to other parents of children with disabilities and normal children, the more I found that feelings and emotions about children are very much the same in all families. The accident of illness or disability serves only to intensify feelings and emotions, not to change them.”
—Judith Weatherly (20th century)