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CCD Chairperson's Update - Happy Holidays
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities wishes you an accessible and inclusive holiday season.
Jewelles Smith
Chairperson
CCD Chairperson's Update - Canada to Ratify CRPD's Optional Protocol
On December 1, 2016 in Ottawa, Hon. Minister Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, and Hon. Minister Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a press conference at the Council of Canadians with Disabilities’ meeting about the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD). Minister Qualtrough and Minister Dion announced that Canada would ratify the CRPD’s Optional Protocol in 2017. This will be a wonderful way to ring in Canada’s 150th year for Canadians with disabilities!
Infrastructure's Effect On Disability
When the federal government consulted Canadians regarding infrastructure, CCD held a meeting where people with disabilities answered the government’s consultation questions. CCD submitted a summary of the discussion.
Standing Committee's Report The Way Forward for Canada Post Contains Some Backward Elements
Media Release
For Immediate Release │ December 14, 2016
Strategies for Competent and Ethical Disability Law Advocacy
Register now for this event on November 30th 2016 in Ottawa.
CCD Disappointed by Electoral Reform Bill C-33
Media Release
For Immediate Release │November 25, 2016
While the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) is pleased with some aspects of the Government's electoral reform bill, "This Bill fails to respond to most of the important amendments to the Canada Elections Act that CCD proposed," said John Rae, 1st Vice Chair of CCD.
Bill C-26: CCD Presentation to the Finance Committee on Enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan
Who are Canadians with Disabilities?
When we speak of people with disabilities, we are actually talking about people with impairments who are disabled by the environment and type of society in which they live:
Lessons from the National Youth Forum in Ottawa
By Natalie Spagnuolo
Natalie is a member of CCD's Social Policy Committee. She is a doctoral candidate in Critical Disability Studies at York University and a Joseph-Armand-Bombardier Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
SPEAKING NOTES FOR TRANSPORTATION ROUNDTABLE
November 17, 2016
Introduction
The Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) is a national human rights organization of people with disabilities that works for an accessible and inclusive Canada. (Please see appendix for highlights of CCD's work on accessible transportation.)
During this consultation, CCD will identify measures that could advance barrier removal in the federally regulated transportation system.
CCD Says Regulations Are Necessary to Increase the Accessibility of Passenger Transportation
Media Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
