Senator Gauthier fights for closed-captioning of House debates

'I have never seen such a bunch of unresponsive people to the needs of 2.5 million Canadians'

Liberal Senator Jean-Robert Gauthier is deaf, uses a wheelchair or a walking stick and is blind in one eye, after almost dying from systemic vasculitis in 1996.

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