Human Resources committee  As you just pointed out, for someone with a bad back or whatever—I can't remember how your story started—to fix their disability it took a stool. A lot of times, for $500 a business can make their place accessible for someone with a disability. But that's in a good place. I wan

Human Resources committee  That would be a great project for us to do, and to make a funding application for to the federal government. We do work closely with the transition coordinator who works with high schools and into university and post-secondary education. She deals with all people with disabilit

Human Resources committee  Especially with contract work, it's very limiting for a person with a disability. If you have a base income support that you're surviving on, and you can go back to work but it's a contract position, you're not sure what's going to happen after that. It's a disincentive to take t

Human Resources committee  Usually, if you partner with another non-profit group.... We work with something called ParaSport. In P.E.I. we do peer events, such as sailing or something like that, or we have cooperatives and we work with the Council of People with Disabilities for employment projects. Bu

Human Resources committee  It depends on the corporation and the culture of the corporation. To tell you the truth, it depends on, say, whether a person in charge knows someone with a disability or has someone with a disability in his family and understands the disability a bit. Then that person can change

Human Resources committee  Do you mean the number of people in Canada who have spinal cord injuries?

Human Resources committee  It's 80,000 people, I believe—86,000 people—

Human Resources committee  —and there are 4,300 new injuries a year.

Human Resources committee  First, I would like to thank everybody for having us here today. We're really excited about this opportunity to present. We got our document in a little late and we didn't have it translated. It is being translated and will be submitted later, so we just have the English version