Finance committee  Hello, everyone. Thank you for inviting me to talk. I'll make it quick so that you can move on. Who are Canadians with disabilities? When we speak of people with disabilities, we are actually talking about people with impairments who are disabled by the environment and type of s

Finance committee  Sure. For folks who are living on reserve, there's money that flows through the AFN. For folks who are not living on reserve, it's a different story. They're not getting money. They're often living in much more poverty. The supports just aren't arriving. When you look at the way

Finance committee  Okay. From a federal perspective, some of the costs in the north come from the federal government. It's important that the federal government look at health care from a broad perspective and look at people who are living in poverty and who don't have access to some of the medical

Finance committee  First off, I tried to stick primarily to federal issues, because this is a federal government. Typically, the provincial government is responsible for any disability pension that people get. Money is provided by the federal government. Obviously there would need to be an agreem

Finance committee  I'm sure there probably is. There's a possibility of giving tax credits to the businesses, particularly for some of the things I talked about and the need for accommodation and those sorts of things. I'll use screen readers as an example again. If somebody is visually impaired

Finance committee  I guess I would start by saying that I think there's a major problem in the way in which we approach programs for employment. I agree competencies are more important than actual degrees and those sorts of things, but I also think that in a typical employment program for people wi

Finance committee  Hello, everybody. The Council of Canadians with Disabilities is an organization of organizations. We have a number of national organizations that are a part of our makeup that include specific disability groups. Then we have provincial organizations that are cross-disability and