AODA review hopes to address what it means to be accessible

Matt Vis, TBNewsWatch.com, October 31, 2018
Former Ontario lieutenant governer David Onley, who is conducting a legislative review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, held a town hall session in Thunder Bay on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, passed in 2005, gave the province 20 years to become fully accessible. With that target date now less than a decade away, David Onley believes it’s important to figure out what exactly it means to be accessible. The act in 2005 required municipalities with a population of more than 10,000 people to have municipal accessibility advisory committees. Onley said he has heard across the province that members of those committees don’t feel like they’re listened to or paid attention, which is something he said should be assessed.