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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.
Income
People with disabilities have lower incomes than people without disabilities. CCD seeks to reduce the annual income gap between Canadians with and without disabilities.
Recent Work
November 21, 2016
Bill C-26: CCD Presentation to the Finance Committee on Enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan
It is the view of CCD that the implementation of the measures in Bill C-26 has the potential to negatively impact Canadians with disabilities in a manner that could increase the disparity in income levels between Canadians with disabilities and other Canadians. Read more.
July 10, 2015
Options for a Refundable Disability Tax Credit for 'working age' persons
The federal, provincial and territorial governments pay a non-refundable Disability Tax Credit to about 375,000 tax-filers aged between 18 and 64. If the credit were refundable approximately 755,000 more Canadians with disabilities in this age group would benefit from the Disability Tax Credit. This paper estimates the cost and the options for making the Disability Tax Credit refundable. Read more.
December 11, 2013
CACL CCD Submission before the Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
The impediment created by the contractual competence and legal authorization requirements for opening a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) has been frequently cited by individuals with intellectual disabilities and their family members as a barrier that prevents eligible beneficiaries from opening a plan.The proposed solution involves a Federal Government Form (“the Form”) authorized by Finance Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency enabling the appointment of one or more qualifying persons, as defined in the Income Tax Act, who may act as joint RDSP Account Holders in their capacity as an adult’s decision-making supporters. Read more.
More on Income
June 3, 2013
Presentation to Finance Committee Re: Disability Tax Credit Regarding Bill C-462
June 6, 2012
CCD Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee of Finance
March 30, 2012
Viewing Budget 2012 with a Disability Lens
March 26, 2012
Raising Age of Eligibility for Old Age Security Will Prolong Poverty For Canadians with Disabilities
March 21, 2012
An Emerging Issue: Old Age Security (OAS) and Raising the Age of Eligibility
May 27, 2010
Nortel Employees on Long Term Disability Benefits
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.