Human Resources committee  I can give more details and perhaps a story. The way the system works now is that people who have been discriminated against have to file complaints and then get individual remedies. That is the only complaint process that exists right now. If 100 people fail to get into a build

Human Resources committee  I would say this bill has excellent provisions. These provisions require every regulated entity to consult with both their employees with disabilities and members of the public. They must consult as they develop their accessibility plans, as they develop their feedback mechanisms

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry; I don't think I understood—

Human Resources committee  Both will be helpful, and both will be built with the voices of persons with disabilities built right in. It gives effect to the mantra in the United Nations convention on persons with disabilities, “nothing about us without us”.

Human Resources committee  Could you be a bit more specific about which freedoms you might be thinking would be infringed?

Human Resources committee  I'm not a lawyer, so I don't think I can answer that question completely, but I can give you my brief insights. First of all, the characterization of that body of activity is more akin to an auditor, who would be more likely to make an appointment to come into an organization a

Human Resources committee  We know that 81% of them are related to employment, 18% to services, 8% to the physical environment, 1% to transportation, and just less than a half of one per cent to communications and technology. Those data that we gather, however, are not as rigorous as we could have in our

Human Resources committee  I would. We don't know the impact of this bill on that portion of our complaints that deal with accessibility. Our first instinct might be to say that because accessibility will be dealt with more proactively, those complaints might go down, but the very wide consultation proces

Human Resources committee  Timelines are certainly a concern, both from the point of view of people with disabilities who want solutions put in place faster and from the point of view of those regulated bodies that want to be able to meet their obligations in a timely way. This bill does not have specific

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. There are different options in order to encourage and embed this kind of harmonization so that people who are trying to find the right place to file their complaints find it easily and simply and without a lot of bureaucracy or delay. That i

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. What I would say about governance overall is that this is a complex system, but that does not mean it cannot be a very effective system. It is really critical to harmonize the interplay between the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons wi