Human Resources committee  Since Meech Lake, I think we've sort of strayed into a kind of hands-off federalism. I'm not advocating going back to the good old days of the Canada Assistance Plan, because there were definite problems there. But at least the federal, provincial, and territorial levels of gover

Human Resources committee  I tend to agree with everything you said, but in order for that to occur, I think the federal government probably needs to reposition itself back in the business of playing a leadership role around training and post-secondary education in Canada. Beginning in 1997, there was ma

Human Resources committee  If we ensure that people have at least high school education, get back for some retraining, and get the disability supports they require--for example, the help from other people, technologies, wheelchairs, medications and so on--and if we ensure that the community transportation

Human Resources committee  If you look at the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report, EMR, and if you look at the participation rates of people with disabilities across jurisdictions in various kinds of programming, you'll find they're far under-represented in relation to the actual prevalen

Human Resources committee  I think the community-level organizations have been feeling the pinch for many years. It has not been easy for them to make available the supports that people with intellectual disabilities require. In some provinces the situation is a bit better than in others; there is just m

Human Resources committee  Funding cuts are never welcomed by any organization. From my point of view, the problems with the funding actually began more than a decade ago. In about the mid-1990s, disability organizations started to feel the pinch in a major way. The pinch became more like a crushing—it was

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for inviting me. These are very hard acts to follow. In my work is as a researcher, I was previously with the Roeher Institute and am now with the Canadian Association for Community Living. My comments will be specific to peo