Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I am someone who is vision impaired. The attitudinal barriers, the artificial barriers, need to be worked on. This has to do with creating more awareness and more education. When many employers take a look at someone like me, they don't look at what I bri

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. One of the roles that government could take is that although a lot of the external websites, the governmental websites, have been improved in the last few years, a lot of the internal websites have not followed suit. One of the things that I think this gover

Human Resources committee  I think it is important for us to lay down a timeline as to when this advisory committee will be in place. I think it's very important. The other thing that I think is important is that we lay down a timeline/deadline for people to file their plans. If we don't, it will be an op

Human Resources committee  These appointments are to be ones that would be of value to this act. I believe that these appointments should be made so that persons with disabilities have a voice at the table and that the appointees will not be influenced by any outside or internal forces. It is very importan

Human Resources committee  As far as Barrier-Free Canada is concerned, it is very important that timelines and deadlines be firmly in place. In our humble opinion, maybe there could be a timeline or deadline of two years after this legislation is passed whereby we can judge what has gone on, what needs to

Human Resources committee  Good morning. My name is Donna Jodhan, and I'm the President and Chair of Barrier-Free Canada. We are a grassroots, non-partisan organization. We were founded in late 2014, and we were instrumental in kick-starting the campaign for the Canadian government to pass legislation to i