Social Policy Archives
Social Policy
January 29, 2009
Federal Budget Sends New Signal to Disability Community
In these challenging times, CCD urges you and your colleagues to ensure that those who already face significant disadvantage are not forgotten. Canadians with disabilities struggle when times are good to have their needs met and when times are bad sadly we are often the first to feel the effects of cutbacks or loss of employment. Read more.
National Action Plan on Disability
October 7, 2009
National Action Plan Video
Jim Derksen presents the National Action Plan. Read more.
September 22, 2009
End Exclusion 2009 Agenda
Roundtable Dialogue “Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship”
October 1, 2009
Ottawa City Hall Council Chambers
110 Laurier Avenue West
Objectives:
• To build solidarity within the disability community and with other anti-poverty groups.
• To highlight our shared priorities regarding Poverty Alleviation and inform key decision makers of our policy proposals.
• To build understanding of how a disability poverty alleviation agenda fits within broader anti-poverty proposals being advanced.
• To build on the success of End Exclusion 2006 and 2007.
July 14, 2008
Your Help Is Needed!
June 1, 2008
Your Help Is Needed!
CCD explains what individuals can do in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada. Read more.
November 1, 2007
From Vision to Action: Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada: A National Action Plan
The National Action Plan presents a shared vision for an inclusive and accessible Canada. Read more.
National Action Plan on Disability Archives
Poverty
December 15, 2009
Open Letter to Members of Parliament Re: Eradicating Poverty for Canadians with Disabilities
July 29, 2009
Dignity For All, the campaign for a poverty-free Canada
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) is pleased to announce that it has accepted an invitation to serve on the steering committee of Dignity For All, the campaign for a poverty-free Canada. Read more.
April 16, 2008
Poverty and Disability: Senate Committee Hears From Canadians with Disabilities
CCD explained that it is calling on the Government of Canada to address the poverty of Canadians with disabilities by taking a greater role in addressing income security for persons with disabilities. Read more.
November 9, 1999
CCD Takes Its Case for Fairer CPP to Supreme Court
February 14, 1997
Disabled citizens lose once again, unfairly blamed in CPP Changes
Employment
March 31, 2009
Make EI Accessible and Inclusive to Canadian Women with Disabilities
Today, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women and called upon the Federal Government to make EI more accessible and inclusive to women with disabilities by expanding eligibility criteria and expanding its coverage. Read more.
Disability Supports
December 2, 2009
Letter to the Editor Re: Advantage Disabled?
CCD is hopeful that the attention being focused on the benefits of technical aids in the area of elite sports translates into increased support for public programs providing technical aids to Canadians with disabilities. Read more.
October 19, 2005
Question and Answer Fact Sheet
October 19, 2005
Canadians with Disabilities Call for Action, Not More Study
February 1, 2005
A National Snapshot of Home Support from the Consumer Perspective
Access/Inclusion
February 24, 2010
Disability Group Challenges Canada on 'Excessive Burden': $5,259
In the short term, CCD is calling upon the Minister of Immigration to allow the Barlagne family to remain in Canada on humanitarian grounds.In the long term, CCD is calling upon the government of Canada to overhaul Canada's immigration policy to remove the discriminatory practices that put the Barlagne family's immigration to Canada in jeopardy. Canada's immigration policy is based upon a negative and outdated understanding of disability that fails to recognize the contribution that people with disabilities can, and do, make.
Read more.
February 23, 2010
Immigration and Disability
February 22, 2010
Covarrubias v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2006 FCA 365 (F.C.A.)
The Court concluded that s. 97(1)(b)(iv) is meant to be broadly interpreted, so that only in rare cases would the onus on the refugee applicant be met. Proof of is required that the country is not unable to furnish medical care that is adequate for the applicant or, in other words, that the country is able to provide medical care, but chooses not to. Read more.
February 22, 2010
Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Colaco, 2007 FCA 282
In response to the Colaco decision, Citzenship & Immigration Canada issued Operational Bulletin 063 on September 24, 2008 which states, “It is clear from the [Colaco] judgment that the Court views Hilewitz and de Jong as applying to all categories of immigrants.” As a result, medical officers “must consider all evidence presented by an applicant, before making a decision of inadmissibility due to excessive demand on social services.” Read more.
February 22, 2010
Lee v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [2006] F.C.J. No. 1841
The Court found that financial ability does not change entitlement or access to available health care, and this, compounded with the reality that there is no private health care available, results in the conclusion that financial ability to pay for health care is not a salient consideration in granting permanent resident status. Read more.
Federal Disability Act
October 1, 2006
A Federal Disability Act: Opportunities and Challenges
May 14, 1999
A Canadians with Disabilities Act?
October 7, 1998
Disabilities Act must have teeth
Income
January 24, 2008
Proposal for A Refundable Disability Tax Credit
CCD explains why it supports a refundable Disability Tax Credit: it would vastly improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Canadian residents with disabilities. Read more.
Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship
March 4, 2010
Working Together on Employment
Outline
- Diagnostique of people with disabilities and the Canadian labour market
- Research lessons and gaps in knowing what is, why, and what works
- Brief history of Canadian employment programs for persons with disabilities
- Vision for reforms and reform ideas
- Concluding thoughts
March 4, 2010
A Medium-Term Sickness/Disability Income Benefit
Overview
1. The issues
2. Federal programs in place
3. The gaps and risks
4. Three policy options
5. Conclusions
Read more.
March 4, 2010
BOLD FEASIBILITIES: A NEW POLICY SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE FOR CANADIANS WITH DISABILITIES
In proposing a new social policy architecture for disability income benefits, this submission has four aims: first, to emphasize the serious problems of poverty facing hundreds of thousands of Canadians with physical and mental disabilities; second, to outline how a new national program of Basic Income for people with severe disabilities would interact with a Refundable Disability Tax Credit as well as existing federal and provincial income programs and tax measures; third, to propose specific reforms to the Employment Insurance Sickness benefit and the Canada Pension Plan Disability program; and, fourth, to identify other initiatives that could comprise an overall federal agenda on disability issues facing Canadians. Read more.
December 15, 2009
New deal for disabled
Professor says dignity of pension could replace welfare for thousands Read more.
December 3, 2009
Making the Invisible Visible
In her presentation at the Canadian Social Forum, Sharon Murphy, a member of the CURA project’s Research Team, recounted the experiences of people with disabilities living in poverty. Sharon’s goal was to make the invisible visible. Read more.
September 23, 2009
As a Matter of Fact: Poverty and Disability in Canada
Based on the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) of 2006, people with disabilities make up 16.5% of the adult population 15 years and older in Canada, or nearly 4.2 million people. PALS is Statistics Canada's 'flagship' survey on disability. Read more.
Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship Archives
Federal Elections
February 12, 2010
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Decision Safeguards Access on Voting Day
In James Peter Hughes and Canadian Human Rights Commission and Elections Canada and Council of Canadians with Disabilities, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered Elections Canada to "cease from situating polling stations in locations that do not provide barrier-free access". "CCD regards this decision as a victory, because the Tribunal's order compels Elections Canada to keep access considerations front and centre as it conducts elections," states Marie White, CCD Chairperson. Read more.
September 29, 2008
Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canadian Transportation System
Accessibility standards are a thing of the past for Canada's federal transport system. Voluntary codes of practice are the current Canadian way. The result: travel denied. Once a world leader in accessibility, Canadian access levels fall below other developed countries. CCD seeks the adoption of the US regulatory accessibility model and utilization of US Access Board guidelines and expertise. The disability community's National Action Plan on Disability includes a focus on transportation access. "We are hoping that all the Federal Parties will commit to working with the disability community to regulate the federal transportation system for access," states Marie White, CCD Chairperson. Read more.
September 22, 2008
Access to Justice: A Disability Issue
CCD has been calling on all Federal Political Parties to commit to the reinstatement of the Court Challenges Program. To date, the Liberal, NDP, Bloc and Green Parties have agreed to reinstate it if elected. The Conservative Party has not indicated a willingness to alter its course on this issue. Read more.
September 19, 2008
Harper Announcement on Disability Falls Short of National Action Plan
The Conservatives have missed the point that Canadians with disabilities have been making for the last thirty-five years. We don't want to be looked after; we want to be contributing members of society. The Canadian community of persons with disabilities has presented the Conservative Party, indeed all the Parties, with the National Action Plan on Disability that outlines new initiatives geared to assist people with disabilities become contributing, participating members of Canadian society, enjoying their full citizenship. Read more.
September 18, 2008
Waiting to Be Tax Payers
Having a job, gives many Canadians with disabilities the financial means to develop the lifestyle they want, feelings of personal satisfaction and contribution, a personal network of friends and colleagues, as well as many other benefits unique to the individual. The disability community has created a National Action Plan on Disability, which provides a short and long term strategy, that among other initiatives will get people with disabilities working and paying taxes. Read more.
September 15, 2008
Disability in Canada Means Living In Poverty
Did you know that a disproportionate number of Canadians with disabilities live in poverty? Each of the Parties has a different strategy for addressing poverty. Read more.
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.