Accessibility advocates want the Ontario government to put them to work

Taylor Simmons, CBC News, November 13, 2018
Committees working on provincial accessibility standards say their work’s been paused for too long. Accessibility advocates say the government hasn’t put several Standards Development Committees (SDCs), special groups looking at how to get rid of accessibility barriers in the province, back to work almost five months after the spring election. Their work is an essential part of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), passed in 2005. All the parties voted to work toward making the province barrier-free by 2025. The SDCs are meant to study barriers in different sectors to make recommendations for an accessibility standard. They stopped work on May 8, 2018, when the provincial election campaign officially began.