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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.
Resources
For more information on the topics addressed by CCD's Transportation Committee, consult the following sites:
- Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
- The CTA is a regulatory agency with the authority to require transportation service providersÑair, rail, marineÑto remove undue obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities.
- CTA Codes of Practice
- The Codes of Practice describe aspects of accessibility for transportation providers.
- Transport Canada
- Transport Canada is the Federal Government department responsible for developing regulations and policies for the national transportation network.
- Accessible Transportation Unit
- This component of Transport Canada develops policies to promote accessible transportation without undue obstacles to mobility.
- Intercity Bus Code of Practice
- This voluntary Code of Practice for the intercity bus industry includes a complaint process and mediation.
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.