A targeted federal income program can help Canadians with disabilities living in poverty

As Canada starts down the road towards social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we have an opportunity to make sure that people with disabilities don’t get left behind.

On the one year anniversary of the passage of the Accessible Canada Act in 2020, Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough said its coming into force sent a clear message to Canadians that systems will be designed inclusively from the start and persons with disabilities will no longer be treated as an afterthought. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KRISTA CARR

September 17, 2021

Twenty-two per cent of people in Canada over the age of 15 have a disability. They are your friends, neighbours, family members and coworkers—and almost a quarter of them are living in poverty. People you know and love can’t afford to pay their rent, put food on their table or purchase their pr...

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