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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.
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January 8, 2010
Prime Minister Harper has prorogued the House of Commons. A new session will begin March 4th and a new session means a Throne Speech and a Budget.
Members of Parliament will be spending more time in their constituency offices in January and February. NOW is the perfect time for us to ensure that they know the priorities of Canadians with disabilities.
Call, write or meet with your Member of Parliament before the end of February.
Tell them about our national priorities.
Initiatives to address disproportionate poverty of Canadians with disabilities by:
- making the Disability Tax Credit refundable for those without a taxable income,
- making those eligible for Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits automatically eligible for the Disability Tax Credit,
- making Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits non-taxable,
- expanding Employment Insurance Sick benefits to 52 weeks.
Increasing labour force participation by creating specific targets for persons with disabilities within Labour Market Agreements negotiated with the provinces and increase funding for the Opportunities Fund.
Improving accessibility by establishing access standards for all modes of federally regulated transportation and creating a Universal Design Centre that would provide employers, governments, public institutions etc. with the most up-to-date information on accessible design and accommodation.
Improving disability support services to Aboriginal people with disabilities who live on reserve.
Develop a National Implementation Plan to address disability issues following Canada’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Work collaboratively with provincial/territorial governments to create new investments in disability-related supports such as homecare, pharmacare, sign language interpretation, access to technical aids, access to information etc.
For information on how to contact your Member of Parliament.
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.