Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Thomas, thank you for having travelled to inform the committee about the audit you prepared.
It gives me the opportunity to tell you that the audits provided by the Office of the Auditor General on various matters are invaluable for accountability purposes. They shed light on various situations for parliamentarians .
This audit is informative. However, as I was reading it, I felt that I would like to know more about it. I understand that you may not be able to tell us much more.
As you said in your address, there are after all a million people with disabilities who have encountered barriers. These people are of course not a homogeneous group. Some have a mental disability and others a physical disability, such as blindness, while others face mobility and accessibility problems. For example, people in wheelchairs require ramps.
Of these barriers, which are the most pressing and need to be better known? I understand that it was difficult for you and your office to identify them concretely. However, if we want to eliminate these barriers, which is the objective, it's important to be able to target them more clearly. It's rather like when you read a good book, and it leads you to want to know a little more. What do you feel are the major barriers being faced by persons with disabilities who use the major carriers?