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What is the Government doing to advance the inclusion of persons with disabilities? What is included in the Disability Inclusion Action Plan?
What will the GoC do to ensure the CDB is adequate to address the level of poverty among working age persons with disabilities? What is the GoC doing to engage provinces and territories to ensure no clawbacks? How has the disability community been engaged in the regulatory development process?
A Statistics Canada survey released on April 1, 2022 shows that almost half of eligible individuals who had not opened a Registered Disability Savings Plan had never heard of the program. Among respondents who were aware of the program, a lack of information or money to save were the main reasons for not opening a plan.
On July 26, 2023, an Order In Council moved the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat from the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) to the Department of Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
How is the Government of Canada supporting access to reading materials and other published works for Canadians with print disabilities?
Budget 2023 provided $25 million, in 2024-2025, to Employment and Social Development Canada for the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative
Summary of accomplishments on disability inclusion since 2015.
Summary of accomplishments on diversity and inclusion since 2018
Members of the Black Business and Professional Association have called for the Board of Directors to be removed and replaced, amid allegations of financial misappropriation of funds
On June 18th, Statistics Canada released job vacancy data for the first quarter of 2024 from the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS).