I think people with disabilities probably get left out more when it's left to the private sector, because there has to be a dollar value there, as there always has to be.
To give you an example, in the Alberta building code, when you build a hotel, you don't have to have accessible rooms. If you are a person with a disability and you want to stay in a hotel, maybe this hotel has one room or two rooms that are accessible. They don't see a value in having people with disabilities stay there. The hotels are full anyway, so why build accessible rooms?
It's the same with child care spots. How many of those are actually accessible to kids with disabilities? I don't think a lot of them probably are.
When the province or the federal government gives money for building any kind of infrastructure, all of that infrastructure has to be accessible to people with disabilities.
I get notices from public affairs here saying that the province is giving money to build something in some small town. And then they say, right under that, that they're going to have special housing over there for people with disabilities. It shouldn't be that way. All that money should be for accessible buildings so that we don't have a situation where some spots are for people with disabilities and the rest aren't. All government money should be put into accessible services for people with disabilities.
I've gone a little beyond answering about the private sector, but I think that's pretty much our experience: people with disabilities kind of get left behind.