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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
CCD National Coordinator Participating in CRA's Disability Advisory Committee Meeting
When the Minister of National Revenue reinstated the Disability Advisory Committee (DAC), she appointed James Hicks, CCD National Coordinator, to the DAC. James is attending the Committee’s first meeting today, January, 24, 2017. The Committee’s role will be to provide advice to the Minister of National Revenue and the Commissioner of the CRA on the administration and interpretation of the ...laws and programs related to disability tax measures administered by the CRA, and on ways in which CRA can take into consideration the needs and expectations of the disability community as well as increase awareness and take-up of measures for people with disabilities. The Committee will advise the CRA on how it can better inform people with disabilities and various stakeholders about tax measures and important administrative changes. The Committee will also review the CRA’s administrative practices and make recommendations on how CRA can enhance the quality of its services for people with disabilities. Stay tuned for further updates.