The ISED Canada Retaliation Files: The Fight for Truth –Part 6: Disability-Based Discrimination

In this emotionally direct chapter of The Retaliation Files, Kevin Duska takes aim at what he calls the “only truly unforgivable aspect” of ISED Canada’s Section 6.1(1) application: its silent rejection of his disability.

Despite ISED previously acknowledging and accommodating Duska’s amblyopia through accessible OCR formats, the only ATIP requests explicitly targeted for abandonment in the department’s application are his disability accommodation files. This includes those asking for visual accessibility.

What’s missing from the 6.1.1 application? Any mention of the disability itself. No reference to amblyopia. No reference to accommodation history. No explanation of why assisting a visually impaired requester is now “unreasonable.”

Duska lays out the facts, shows his own prescription, and frames this as a breach not just of ATIA Section 4(2.1), but of Canada’s human rights obligations. He calls out the hypocrisy of using accessibility as a burden trigger, and frames ISED’s silence on disability as a structural form of discrimination.

“This is the one thing I won’t let go. Not ever. This isn’t about redactions anymore. This is about basic humanity. And if they think this will quietly vanish, they haven’t been paying attention.”

Also cited: the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the Accessible Canada Act, and the disturbing pattern of targeting neurodivergent or disabled requesters through vague allegations of “burden.”

📜 Featuring receipts — literal and legal.
🧾 Featuring a section you’ll probably want to watch twice.

This one’s not performative. It’s personal.