Ready, Willing, and Able a model for finding talent

For decades, many employers have overlooked a motivated group of workers often due to misconceptions about workplace accommodations or assumptions about productivity
A worker employed through the program Ready, Willing, and Able. Roughly three quarters of working-age Canadians with an intellectual disability or autism remain unemployed or underemployed, write Krista Carr and Jonathan Lai.Photograph courtesy of Inclusion Canada
Opinion
BY KRISTA CARR, JONATHAN LAI
July 29, 2026

Canada has a labour shortage and a labour surplus at the same time. Our labour force shortages are no longer a temporary challenge. Across the country, “help wanted” signs are everywhere.  

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