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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.
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CCD has worked to improve access in this transportation mode. A former CCD Vice Chair Irene McGinn worked on the Roadcruiser project (1983-85) that demonstrated how to build an inter-provincial bus accessible to wheelchair users. A former CCD Chairperson, Eric Norman worked on the complaint process used by the inter-provincial bus system. Inter-provincial bus transportation is somewhat of an anomaly, as accessibility complaints are not addressed by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). (For more information on the complaint process, please refer to the Resources page.)
Recent Work
July 10, 2018
Reducing Greyhound Transportation Services Could Have Domino Effect
“The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) was dismayed to learn that Greyhound has announced plans to shut down its operations in parts of Canada, because this withdrawal of service will put in jeopardy the range of safe, independent choices available to the travelling public, including people with disabilities,” states Bob Brown, Co-Chairperson CCD Transportation Committee. Read more.
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.