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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 Chairperson's Update - July 2014
The major activity which took place during the month of July was the preparation of CCD's response to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. The Committee invited Canadians to share their priorities for the 2015 Federal Budget. CCD's Social Policy Committee directed the development of CCD's submission to the Finance Committee.
In its submission, CCD urged the Federal Government to use its powers to improve the lives of persons with disabilities.
CCD called upon the Canadian Government to:
- Use tax and other measures to reduce the poverty of persons with disabilities.
- Use its legislative and regulatory powers to ensure that persons with disabilities are included fully in Canadian programs and services.
- Collaborate with the P/T on labour market strategies and broad social policy initiatives to address the needs of persons with disabilities.
CCD reminded the Federal Government that CRPD implementation can be the basis of collaborative Federal/Provincial/Territorial policy development.