Activists push for independent enforcement of Ontario’s accessibility law

Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter, The Toronto Star, April 18, 2018
After five years of lax enforcement of Ontario’s groundbreaking accessibility legislation, disability activists want Queen’s Park to hand over enforcement responsibilities to an independent public agency. The call comes in the wake of a new report that shows a 2015 government crackdown on accessibility scofflaws never really happened and that the government has imposed just six monetary penalties despite thousands of known violations. The AODA-Alliance has asked all party leaders to commit to moving enforcement of the AODA to an independent public agency, if elected premier in June.
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