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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.
Transportation
Individuals cannot pursue their personal goals without access to transportation. Since its founding in 1976, CCD has been working to remove obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities from the modes of transportation within federal jurisdiction—air, rail, inter-provincial bus, and marine. CCD seeks the adoption of enforceable accessibility regulations for these modes.
CCD's Transportation Committee monitors the services provided by transportation carriers, contributes to legislative reform, shares knowledge on access with researchers, challenges discriminatory transportation practices in the courts.
Recent Work
October 4, 2024
International Air Transport Association v. Canada (Transportation Agency)
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) upheld the Air Passenger Protection Regulation (the Regulation) introduced by the federal government a few years ago. The Regulation provides a standardized system of compensation for passengers who experience disruptions to their air travel plans. CCD along with the National Pensioners Association and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre intervened in this case. As a coalition we argued that the Regulation was needed and of benefit to air passengers, especially those who already experience transportation barriers and disadvantage. Read more.
October 4, 2024
WIN FOR INTERNATIONAL AIR TRAVELLERS
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has ruled international passengers flying to and from Canada have the right to access compensation under Canada’s Air Passenger Protection Regulations. Read more.
November 13, 2023
I was parked luggage: Accessibility advocates speak out about demeaning air travel
Comments by Heather Walkus, CCD Chairperson, about transportation barriers. Read more.
More on Transportation
October 12, 2023
Travelling to the North to Gather Information towards Developing CTA Accessibility Regulations for Small Carriers and Terminals Not Covered by the Accessible Transportation for People with Disabilities Regulation (ATPDR)
December 14, 2018
VIA RAIL SELECTS SIEMENS CANADA TO REPLACE ITS QUÉBEC-WINDSOR CORRIDOR FLEET
July 10, 2018
Reducing Greyhound Transportation Services Could Have Domino Effect
March 15, 2018
Bill C-49 Empowers Goliath and Takes Away David's Sling Shot
March 14, 2018
Transportation Modernization Act (Bill C-49)
January 19, 2018
Delta Airlines Inc. v Gábor Lukács
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.
February 1, 2005
Moving Backwards: Canada's State of Transportation Accessibility in an International Context
CCD undertakes a comparative international analysis of transportation regulatory frameworks and makes recommendations for Canada. Read more.