Transportation
Individuals cannot pursue their personal goals without access to transportation. Since its founding in 1976, CCD has been working to remove obstacles to the mobility of persons with disabilities from the modes of transportation within federal jurisdiction—air, rail, inter-provincial bus, and marine. CCD seeks the adoption of enforceable accessibility regulations for these modes.
CCD's Transportation Committee monitors the services provided by transportation carriers, contributes to legislative reform, shares knowledge on access with researchers, challenges discriminatory transportation practices in the courts.
Recent Work
January 27, 2011
Claredon Robicheau Speaks Out On Transportation
Claredon Robicheau summarizes some current issues in the federal mode of transportation. Read more.
January 25, 2011
Video: A Conversation about Accessible Transportation
Marie White and Claredon Robicheau discuss transportation barriers and how CCD is addressing these. Read more.
June 2, 2010
Student Creates Opportunity to Increase Accessibility
Today, Pat Martin, NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre, will introduce a Private Member’s Bill calling for an accessibility audit of federally regulated transportation systems. This initiative results from a high school student competition called Create Your Canada, where students were asked to draft a bill to change the way our country works. Sam Unrau, a Grade 12 student with disability at Argyle Alternative High School in Winnipeg, is the winner of the competition and his proposed Bill focuses on requiring the Government of Canada to undertake an accessibility audit of all federally regulated transportation systems. Read more.
More on Transportation
March 4, 2010
Dealing with the t-word
January 20, 2010
Regulation of Federal Transportation System for Access
October 15, 2009
Current Issues
December 4, 2008
CCD Wins Removal of Longstanding Barrier to Mobility and Travel
March 1, 2008
Responding Memorandum of Fact and Law of Joanne Neubauer and the Council of Canadians With Disabilities
January 10, 2008
Reaction to Landmark Canadian Transportation Agency Decision: Disabled Canadians Jubilant to Have Transport Barrier Removed
CCD wins VIA Rail case at the Supreme Court of Canada on March 23, 2007.
February 1, 2005
Moving Backwards: Canada's State of Transportation Accessibility in an International Context
CCD undertakes a comparative international analysis of transportation regulatory frameworks and makes recommendations for Canada. Read more.