Minister Carla Qualtrough released Canada’s first-ever Disability Inclusion Action Plan
working in close partnership with the disability community, the action plan consists of four key pillars identified by the disability community as priorities.
1. Financial security – actions to improve the immediate and long-term financial security of persons with disabilities and to address long-standing financial exclusion and systemic inequities.
2. Employment – actions to help persons with disabilities find and keep good quality jobs, advance in their careers, or become entrepreneurs.
3. Accessible and inclusive communities – action to address physical, communication, and attitudinal barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from fully participating in our communities and the economy.
4. A modern approach to disability – actions to address the challenges that persons with disabilities face in accessing federal programs and benefits and to ensure Government’s policies and programs reflect their needs.
People with disabilities face physical, financial, attitudinal and other barriers to participating in society. Many of these barriers are systemic and long-standing. Our government is working with the disability community to remove these barriers, and to create a more inclusive country. The work required to achieve this is extensive, and it requires meaningful and sustained action.