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CCD keeps its members and others informed by publishing reports and newsletters.

The CCD was founded by persons with disabilities to ensure that the voice of persons with disabilities is reflected in the development of law and policy. CCD is dedicated to promoting the rights, full participation of, and equal opportunity for, persons with disabilities in all aspects of society including employment, education, transportation and health care.  CCD also works to remove barriers to accessibility and advocate for inclusive communities.  The CCD engages in law reform, policy development, and strategic systemic test case litigation to further its mandate.

The International Portfolio:

• Provides advice and leadership on international issues that effect persons with disabilities
• Identifies international issues of concern to persons with disabilities
• Provides advice to CCD National Council and the federal government on reforms that would improve the affect of Canada's foreign aid and policy on persons with disabilities.
• Monitors and advises on the implementation on the United Nations Convention on the Rights the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Canada

CCD seeks to focus attention on and prevent private and societal actions that make people with disabilities die prematurely. Death-making is rooted in fear, prejudice and negative perceptions about life with a disability.

The Access to Technology Portfolio:

• Identifies technology issues of national concern to persons with disabilities
• Provides advice to CCD National Council on reforms that would improve the access to technology of Canadians with disabilities

The Latimer case directly concerned the rights of persons with disabilities. Mr. Latimer's view was that a parent has the right to kill a child with a disability if that parent decides the child's quality of life no longer warrants its continuation. CCD explained to the court and to the public how that view threatens the lives of people with disabilities and is deeply offensive to fundamental constitutional values.

CCD's members are provincial/territorial cross-disability, consumer-controlled, human rights organizations and national uni- and cross-disability, consumer-controlled, human rights organizations and six individual members at large ensuring a intersectional council.

The member organizations and members at large are: