Human Resources committee  It's certainly better than.... If that's going to be the system, then we want to make sure that the complaint lands where it needs to land. I think the real issue is that when you have an overly complex system, it's best to remedy that system, as opposed to creating band-aid solu

Human Resources committee  Certainly we would suggest, as do our colleagues in disability communities, that we would want as much representation as possible given the diversity, intersectionality and multiple disabilities. I want to make a point that I haven't heard yet. We talk a lot about the makeup of

Human Resources committee  Sure. I guess this—

Human Resources committee  Again, if we think about how these different laws operate, we see that we have a more individually driven system through an anti-discrimination approach, whereby you have a complainant identifying an issue of discrimination and bringing it forward through a process. It's somewhat

Human Resources committee  Yes, we did.

Human Resources committee  I don't think that having timelines means we are taking the position that we are accepting a static accessibility goal. We think about timelines just as a way to move us forward into whatever evolution. I think we also need to remember that this bill is not going to do it all.

Human Resources committee  We have some examples, but I would just like to start, if I may, by talking a little bit more about what flowed from the earlier session in terms of “progressive realization”. We understand it to be much more rigorous than what was discussed at that previous session. When we thin

Human Resources committee  I would be concerned about that message. I think overall the concern, as you mentioned, is that as of day one, when this bill receives royal assent, there isn't anything else required. In addressing the concern about the progression of technology, for example, or how we understa

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to this committee for this opportunity to speak with you this morning. ARCH Disability Law Centre is a specialty legal clinic focused solely on disability rights. We work on the ground with communities of persons with disabilities, with disabilit