Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My apologies to the committee for being late, but I was stopped by Global media when I came in because of a very distressing case of a woman with an intellectual disability being assaulted on Wheel-Trans in Toronto today. They were asking for comments on th

Finance committee  Yes, I absolutely agree. One thing we've learned as a community as we've tried to move forward with a disability and family support agenda in this country is that there's so much to be done. We find that when we put the full agenda on the table, people go, “Oh my gosh, this is ju

Human Resources committee  Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to be here today. We appreciate the invitation of the committee to appear before you at this early stage, as you consider the terms of reference for a study and what the focus of a study should be. It strik

Human Resources committee  On the income piece around people with significant disabilities, the reason we've been working with CCD and others to advocate that proposal is that there is that group of people who have significant disabilities and are living in deep poverty. That's why we have been advocating.

Human Resources committee  I think it would be very useful for this committee to do a study on disability that recognizes the significant barriers and obstacles that people with disabilities face. This is an initial discussion, so we don't want to tie ourselves down absolutely to one direction, but our c

Human Resources committee  I would certainly echo that, from the perspective of the Canadian Association for Community Living. You have been one of the champions, Judy, and we will miss your voice at the federal and national levels. Well, we'll miss it at the federal level. I'm sure we'll be hearing from y

Human Resources committee  Just very briefly on that, that is a major issue for us, for people with intellectual and psychosocial or mental health issues, the ability to open a plan ourselves rather than be declared contractually incompetent and have someone—a parent, for example—become a guardian. We ar

Human Resources committee  The instruments that are available for the federal government to shape labour market access and supports--the labour market agreements, the labour market development agreements, and the multilateral framework on labour market access for people with disabilities--have potential, b

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present to you today. The Canadian Association for Community Living is the national association that represents the voice and interests of almost one million Canadians with intellectual disabilities and their families. People with intellectual d

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I think we have to focus our support on individuals and families to enable them to make choices about where they want to live and the communities they want to live in. Without some community capacity to create disability-related supports, opportunities in the community, you need

Finance committee  We've had a costing done on this. It is linked to the jurisdictional issue that's been brought up a couple of times, on who does what. Given the current environment.... The federal government has identified that it will continue to play a role in transfers to individuals. We thin

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My apologies for being late, but weather conspired against me and the airlines this morning. First of all, thanks to the committee for initiating this study. We think it's a very important step and in a sense overdue, because

Human Resources committee  We were pleased to see that focus with the committee. There are a couple of challenges when it comes to apprenticeship programs, and I'll speak to people with intellectual disabilities specifically, and then more generally Laurie and Vangelis can pick that up. Because of the na

Human Resources committee  Sure. I take that approach, too, in terms of the glass being half full. There are some very successful examples across the country. We've been looking at this very intensely over the last year and a half or so to figure out what the key factors are and what needs to happen. In t