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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 Security Reform
Recent Work
March 25, 2015
Review of Extra Costs Linked to Disability
This study helps identify situations in which the existence of additional costs is more than a hindrance to the emancipation of disabled people; disability costs cause significant negative impacts on the social and professional integration of individuals. In a context of fiscal austerity in which not only the services to the most vulnerable citizens are threatened but also the allowances to the middle classes, recognition of general and specific additional costs by the government would be a strong symbol: a concrete lever for social participation of people with disabilities and, at the same time, an acknowledgement of their right to self-determination. Read more.
May 16, 2014
Research Report on the Québec Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion, a Case of Democratic Co-construction of Public Policy
The objective of this paper is to analyze the Quebec Law to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion, passed in 2002, as an example of a democratically co-constructed social policy. This Law is the result of a large and intensive mobilization of Québec civil society over a seven year period. Read more.
August 19, 2013
What is Happening to Disability Income Systems in Canada?
This paper summarizes findings on recent expenditures on persons with disabilities in Canada. Nationally, social assistance disability income expenditures are growing faster than other programs overall. This is not the case in the eastern provinces and Quebec. Why are there such divergent patterns between the provinces? Read more.
More on Income Security Reform
November 8, 2012
The Welfarization of Disability Programs
April 11, 2012
The Fight Against Poverty and Exclusion in Québec: Mixed Results, Including for Persons with Disabilities
January 17, 2012
Advancing the Participation of People with Disabilities in the Labour Market: International Practices and Lessons
December 21, 2011
IN UNISON: A Canadian Approach to Disability Issues
December 18, 2011
Highlights of End Exclusion 2011
December 18, 2011
Key Messages from End Exclusion 2011 Round Tables
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.