Persons With Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe We are very proud of this major announcement made earlier in the month. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ensures the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with d

Sports  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Vimy for her question. On behalf of all parliamentarians, I want to congratulate our athletes on their performances in Rio and thank them for playing an important role in our society and in the lives of young people. Close to 1,000 stu

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Toronto—Danforth for her question. Our government is determined to ensure better accessibility for Canadians with disabilities and better opportunities in their communities and their workplaces from coast to coast to coast. This new l

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, we are working very hard for a-whole-government approach, too, as we go into the world and restore Canada's reputation internationally to ensure that countries around the world will also implement the Marrakesh Treaty. We have opportunities later this month and lat

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, ensuring greater accessibility and opportunities for Canadians with disabilities in their communities and workplaces is a priority for our government. An increased access to print materials is a path to inclusion. Earlier this week I was proud to announce $2 million

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my hon. colleague from Laurentides—Labelle for his question. Earlier this week, I invited businesses and community organizations to apply for funding under the 2016 enabling accessibility fund, which will receive an additional $4 million thanks to bu

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I am particularly excited that the very first part in my mandate letter is to engage in a consultation process that will lead to federal accessibility legislation. I just met this morning with the Trans Canada Trail executives, and I am excited to be working with the

Persons with Disabilities  Mr. Speaker, I am working with stakeholders from a variety of disability groups as we design an inclusive and engaging consultation process that will lead to federal accessibility legislation, which will include access issues on a variety of areas of federal jurisdiction. This is

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the member opposite and all of my colleagues here in the House for their heartfelt support and their consideration of this very important issue. I just wanted to correct the number of countries that have actually ratified the Marrakesh treaty. It is 16. Cana

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to acknowledge the member opposite for his tireless effort in this file. It has been an absolute pleasure and honour to work with him as we move this forward. Our government is extremely open to providing new and innovative opportunities for Canadians o

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, that is a very important question. We know that Marrakesh focuses primarily on the visually impaired, the blind, and others with more perceptual disabilities related to font size in accessible material. I have met with a lot of leaders in the deaf and hard-of-hearing

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, one of the reasons we were so excited to get this bill going is because we have the consensus of all parties in the House. The members of the Conservative Party and the NDP have been very co-operative. This is an opportunity for us to get this done, to be one of the

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, the number one bullet in my mandate letter is to engage in a consultation process that will ultimately result in accessibility legislation at the federal level. Recognizing the exact challenges that the member has raised, we know we can do better in Canada. That is

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, the idea is that the Marrakesh treaty focuses on not making profit from making available accessible materials. If publishers, which I would personally think would be a fantastic advancement for publishing companies around the world, decided to make something availabl

Copyright Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak to Bill C-11, an act to amend the Copyright Act which concerns access to copyrighted works or other subject-matter for persons with perceptual disabilities. Over 800,000 Canadians live with blindness or partial sight, and around three m