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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
January 31, 2013
CCD Comments on Regulatory Proposal to Amend the Air Transportation Regulations (SOR/88-58)
Within this document there are both proposals that we support and are pleased to see moving forward and there are proposals that raise significant concerns for us. Read more.
March 4, 2010
Dealing with the t-word
December 4, 2008
CCD Wins Removal of Longstanding Barrier to Mobility and Travel
On November 20, 2008, CCD won the removal of another long-standing barrier to mobility and travel—air carriers' practice of charging additional fares to people with disabilities whose disabilities necessitated the use of an extra seat in-flight. Read more.
More on Air
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
October 27, 2005
National Transportation Access for People with Disabilities: Moving Backwards
January 1, 1999
Air Travel for People Who Use Wheelchairs
January 12, 1997
Guide dog, trip out in the cold; Vacation scuttled at last minute
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.