Premier Doug Ford’s First Throne Speech from the Perspective of Ensuring that Ontario Becomes Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities

By Greg Thomson, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, July 13, 2018
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first Throne Speech, read at Queen’s Park on July 12, said nothing about taking new action to ensure that Ontario becomes accessible to 1.9 million Ontarians with disabilities by 2025, the deadline which all parties set in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005. The Throne Speech is where a Government sets out, at a high level, its priorities for action.