… the problem of providing full educational opportunities to handicapped children is a task that has, with few honourable exceptions, been grievously neglected in Canada.
It is essential that we take just a moment to say a few words about the right to an appropriate education. Many Canadians are denied this basic right referred to in the International Covenant and subscribed to by Canada and the Provinces…. There is indeed the need to entrench the right to an appropriate education…. Without the entrenchment of that value… Canadians who live with a handicap condition are at the outset denied the means of access to many of the benefits of Canadian society.