When it comes to ensuring accessibility for 5 million Canadians with disabilities, Canada lags far behind the U.S., which passed the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act 29 years ago. Yet, it doesn’t require a single disability barrier to ever be removed or prevented anywhere. It’s good that the bill lets the federal government create enforceable national accessibility standards to set accessibility rules. However, the bill doesn’t require the government to ever create any. David Lepofsky is the chair of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance.

Source: thestar April 29, 2019 21:11 UTC