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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.
Accessibility Canada Act
In Canada, people interested in disability public policy have different views on the effectiveness of disability legislation for removing barriers and improving the lives of people with disabilities. The United States, Australia and Ontario have such legislation but the results vary. CCD, using a human rights and disability rights analysis, examined what a federal disability act could do for Canadians with disabilities.
Recent Work
May 4, 2019
Senate Committee Corrects Some Weaknesses in Bill C-81
CCD calls on the Government to accept the SOCI Committee’s amendments and to incorporate them into Bill C-81. Read more.
April 11, 2019
CCD Calls on Senate to Address Significant Silences in Bill C-81, An Act to ensure a barrier-free Canada
On April 3, 2019, Accessibility Minister Carla Qualtrough told the Senate Social Affairs Committee she wants Bill C-81 to be "the best it can possibly be" and that she is open to amendments. The Minister and the Senate have the Open Letter, endorsed by 95 organizations, calling for 9 amendments to improve Bill C-81 and the recommendations of the Federal Accessible Legislation Alliance. These documents provide the formula for achieving the goal set out by Minister Qualtrough. Read more.
November 12, 2018
Study on Bill C-81, An Act to Ensure a Barrier-Free Canada
CCD shares this written submission to the Committee as a way of further elaborating on the recommendations it made at its appearance before the Committee on October 22, 2018. Read more.
More on Federal Disability Act
November 12, 2018
Summary Note: Bill C-81 Parliamentary Study - Wednesday November 7, 2018
November 12, 2018
Summary Note: Bill C-81 Parliamentary Study - Thursday October 25, 2018
November 12, 2018
Summary Note: Bill C-81 Parliamentary Study - Wednesday October 24, 2018
November 12, 2018
Summary Note: Bill C-81 Parliamentary Study - Tuesday October 23, 2018
November 12, 2018
Summary Note: Bill C-81 Parliamentary Study - Monday October 22, 2018
November 12, 2018
Summary Note: Bill C-81 Parliamentary Study - Thursday October 18, 2018
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.