The human rights of three people with intellectual disabilities were violated by the Nova Scotia government when the province confined them in a hospital ward for years, a board of inquiry found on Monday.
The applicants in the case — Beth MacLean, Joseph Delaney and the late Sheila Livingstone — had argued that the province should have provided them with small homes in the community with suitable care and support.
The Disability Rights Coalition, an advocacy group, was also a complainant in the case.
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