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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.
What Federal Election Candidates Need to Know About: The Labour Market and Canadians with Disabilities
A Message from Marie White, Chairperson
The Government of Canada must become a model employer both in its hiring practices and its accommodation of disability. Persons with disabilities should be represented at all levels within the public sector. People with disabilities have the requisite skills and abilities for a range of positions.
Will your party make the Federal Government a model employer of persons with disabilities?
Labour market issues:
- Participation goals for Canadians with disabilities must be set in labour market agreements with the provinces and territories. Federal funds should not be transferred unless these goals are established.
Current Federal labour market programs for persons with disabilities must be expanded to ensure better training and supports for people with disabilities.
Marie White, a former Chairperson of CCD, addresses anti-poverty rally.