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Poverty
In Canada, poverty and disability are largely synonymous: poverty can lead to disability and disability can lead to poverty.
Poverty is a shared reality for too many of the 14.3% Canadians who have a disability. Compared to men with disabilities, women with disabilities face additional economic disadvantage. Historically, women with disabilities have experienced lower rates of participation in the labor force, less access to income support programs and higher rates of poverty.
In Canada, there is no coordinated policy response to the poverty of persons with disabilities. Instead, there is a patchwork of local/provincial/territorial and federal programs that overlap, grab back and fail to provide adequate income and basic supports required to remove barriers associated with disability.
CCD has been developing plans to reduce the poverty experienced by persons with disabilities in Canada.
Recent Work
November 4, 2012
Tony Dolan's Speaking Notes for an October 2012 Presentation to Finance Committee
In October 2012, CCD Chairperson Tony Dolan appeared before the House of Commons Finance Committee, when it was consulting Canadians about Canada's next Budget. Tony shared CCD's views on initiatives that the Government of Canada should undertake to create a more accessible and inclusive Canada. Read more.
March 22, 2011
Dealing with Today´s Disability Poverty
The disability community has shared with the Federal Government a plan, with short and long term steps, for eradicating disability poverty. A refundable Disability Tax Credit is the measure that many of us in the disability community were hoping to see in Budget 2011, but, once again, the Federal Budget has chosen to ignore Canadians with disabilities at the lowest rung of the socioeconomic scale. A refundable disability tax credit would put desperately needed dollars in the wallets of Canadians with disabilities living in poverty.
December 3, 2010
United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities
The disability recommendations made by the HUMA Committee in their "Federal Poverty Reduction Plan" report would improve the lives of Canadians with disabilities by reducing disability poverty by removing barriers in income assistance, training, and employment. Many of its recommendations are drawn from the disability community's National Action Plan to build a more inclusive and accessible Canada.
We encourage all Members of Parliament to support the HUMA Committee's recommendations. Recognizing they cannot be all implemented immediately, a refundable disability tax credit would be an excellent first step for the Government to take. Including a refundable DTC in the upcoming Federal Budget would be an excellent down payment on income security for people with disabilities facing the severest poverty.
More on Poverty
December 2, 2010
Support for Bill S-216
December 2, 2010
Federal Poverty Reduction Plan: Working in Partnership Towards Reducing Poverty in Canada
December 2, 2010
International Day of Persons with Disabilities - We're Sending Our Christmas Wish List to Federal Government
November 18, 2010
Calvin Wood's Presentation to End Exclusion 2010
November 18, 2010
Federal Poverty Reduction Plan Must Address Disability Poverty
August 6, 2010
Premiers must put Canada's poor at top of agenda
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.