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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.
Air
Air travel and airports are federally regulated. CCD has worked to remove obstacles to mobility in this mode of travel.
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 Air
January 31, 2013
CCD Comments on Regulatory Proposal to Amend the Air Transportation Regulations (SOR/88-58)
March 4, 2010
Dealing with the t-word
December 4, 2008
CCD Wins Removal of Longstanding Barrier to Mobility and Travel
March 1, 2008
Responding Memorandum of Fact and Law of Joanne Neubauer and the Council of Canadians With Disabilities
January 10, 2008
Reaction to Landmark Canadian Transportation Agency Decision: Disabled Canadians Jubilant to Have Transport Barrier Removed
June 1, 2007
Building An Inclusive and Accessible Canada
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.