Finance committee  Thank you. Before I start, I would just like to explain how I'm going to do this presentation since I can't read print. I am partially sighted, hence the dog at my feet. I'm using a talking computer and I have an earphone in my ear. It will be reading out loud to me what I'm say

Finance committee  Margaret McGrory is our librarian at CNIB, and I think she can probably articulate it better, if that's okay.

Finance committee  I have to admit that the fund development area within the CNIB is not my area, but from the perspective of someone who has an adult child living in my home who is a first-time donor, I think it's very significant. The more money that gets transferred into charitable organizatio

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I think that everyone has a copy of my presentation in English and in French. We have also provided a copy in Braille today. I read Braille, but I will make my presentation with the help of a computer. My reading of Braille is a bit too slow. I wi

Finance committee  Thank you. I'm going to ask Margaret McGrory, the vice-president of our library services, to answer. She has more specifics on the programs themselves; I'm more the user.

Finance committee  As a charity, CNIB provides a lot of programs and services that are already provided to people with disabilities in provinces that provide such services through the government sector. Rehabilitation services is one of the areas we provide that we feel should be provided through p

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I'd just like to let folks know how I'm doing this presentation so you understand the technology. I'm using a talking computer so I'm having it speak in my ear and then I'm going to repeat it. If the computer stutters, then I also may stutter, so my deepest apologies i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think part of the problem from the perspective of people with vision loss is that providing accommodations for people who are partially sighted or who are blind requires technology a lot of the time. Technology in voting becomes quite difficult, especially when we're talking ab

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, there are various things. Some of the stuff that's happening in Bill C-23 addresses some of those issues, in that it ensures that information provided about getting to polling stations, which poll to vote at, and what that process is, those tool kits about how someone with a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Sorry.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My key comment would be that the people with disabilities out there are so numerous that the groups of people with disabilities don't know them all. When it comes to people who are blind or partially sighted, CNIB is a service organization that provides assistance to people with

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From the perspective of CNIB, the amendments that we would like to see are specifically around strengthening and being more directive with the Chief Electoral Officer to do the testing and to create a more accessible voting process. That's our key issue that we would like to put

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it will impede some of the people who are blind or partially sighted in Canada to not have a vouching system. We have had some discussions with the minister, and for those individuals who do have a CNIB card, you can put your address on the card. There are some discussion

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have voted completely independently and in secret in municipal elections.