In Unison is a 1983 vision paper produced by the Canadian government that  was issued as a federal, provincial and territorial approach to disability issues that was produced by the various ministers responsible for disabled and social services. 

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Titchkosky provides the example of Melissa Rezansoff, a quadripelegic individual who works as the Saskatchewan Regional Manager for the Neil Squire Foundation. Rezansoff's story was told in In Unsion. While In Unison takes some time to reflect that Rezansoff is a residential school survivor who grew up in Kahakwisthaw First Nation as one of thirteen kids, her disability is firmly situated as of her own making as Melissa became quadriplegic after shooting herself in a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed. Melissa is then presented as being summarily able to reinvent herself. This reinvention doesn't include any notes of self advocacy or encounters of ableism, rather Melissa is presented as just able to gain an education and devote herself wholly to her current employment. Nothing is said in In Unison of Melissa's thought or feelings of being disabled or the structural barriers she now faces with her disability. Melissa is presented on turning from a suicidal individual to an individual who is presented as positively contributing to society.

Example: Melissa Rezansoff

Titchkosky, T. (2003). Governing embodiment: technologies of constituting citizens with disabilities. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 28(4), 517-542. https://ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/governing-embodiment-technologies-constituting/docview/220533400/se-2

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