The framework established through this legislation will allow for a very technical standard to be developed. Imagine a scenario down the road where counter heights will be dictated through standard. You can imagine that putting that in law would be incredibly clunky, for lack of a better word. We don't even know the hundreds of standards that will result over the years as accessibility changes, and as our expectations change.
I'll use curb cuts as an example. Historically, the idea was that you put a ramp down at the end of a sidewalk to go across the street, and that was the best way to accommodate someone with mobility aids. If we had enshrined that in law, that wouldn't have been very helpful moving forward. What we learned in the north is that when it snows and rains, puddles happen at the edge of the curb. They've raised the crosswalk so that it's just flat across. The standard up there might be that it's flat across instead of a curb down that results in a big puddle when it snows.
That's the kind of evolution that happens as our thinking changes and our expectations for inclusion evolve. That's the kind of nimbleness that CASDO and the standards will provide by not having it in law.
Can you imagine going to the floor of the House of Commons to change a section of an act because the curb cut thinking has evolved? Imagine that across every aspect of federal jurisdiction. It would be incredibly onerous.