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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.
Minister of Transport/CTA
CCD shares its expertise on accessible transportation with the Minister of Transport and the Canadian Transportation Agency.
Recent Work
October 12, 2023
Travelling to the North to Gather Information towards Developing CTA Accessibility Regulations for Small Carriers and Terminals Not Covered by the Accessible Transportation for People with Disabilities Regulation (ATPDR)
A conversation that, April D’Aubin, Janet Hunt, Janson Nashtootaway, Richard Belzile, and Heather Walkus had about travelling on some of Canada’s smaller federally regulated transportation providers. Read more.
March 15, 2018
Bill C-49 Empowers Goliath and Takes Away David's Sling Shot
Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, will make some aspects of Canada’s federally regulated transportation system more inaccessible than it already is for people with disabilities. Travelers with disabilities routinely encounter accessibility barriers, such as damaged or delayed mobility equipment, kiosks without audio output to make them accessible to blind travelers. If passed without amendment, Bill C-49 while adding new barriers, will also make it harder for organizations like the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, a national organization that has been working for more than 40 years in support on an accessible and inclusive transportation system, to take complaints in the public interest to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). “We are dismayed that Bill C-49 is introducing new barriers at a time when the current Federal Government is about to introduce accessibility legislation designed to make Canada more accessible and inclusive,” states Bob Brown, Chairperson of the CCD Transportation Committee. On March 20, 2018, CCD will be appearing before the Senate Committee on transportation calling for the removal of these new barriers to mobility of persons with disabilities in the federally regulated transportation. Read more.
March 14, 2018
Transportation Modernization Act (Bill C-49)
CCD has made submissions respecting the Transportation Modernization Act (Bill C-49) to the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. On March 20, 2018, Bob Brown, Chairperson, CCD Transportation Committee, and Terrance Green, Co-Chair, CCD Transportation Committee, will be appearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications.
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More on Minister of Transport/CTA
January 19, 2018
Delta Airlines Inc. v Gábor Lukács
November 13, 2017
Presentation to Senate Committee on Transport and Communications (Special study connected and automated vehicles)
February 21, 2017
A Long History of CTA Inaction in the Establishment of Accessibility Regulations
November 18, 2016
SPEAKING NOTES FOR TRANSPORTATION ROUNDTABLE
November 16, 2016
CCD Says Regulations Are Necessary to Increase the Accessibility of Passenger Transportation
January 11, 2015
CCD Submission to Canada Transportation Act Review
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.