Ontario will fail to meet its goal of making the province accessible for people with disabilities by 2025 unless the government takes urgent action, a new…
In the report, which was based on extensive consultations with the disability community, Donovan asks Ontario Premier Doug Ford directly, “Do you care?”
The review noted that previous reviews of the law — Donovan’s is the fourth — also reported continuous failures, poor outcomes and painfully slow progress. In response to the report, Ontario’s Ministry of Seniors and Accessibility said the province has taken steps toward implementing the recommendations that were in Onley’s review.
Donovan, the former chair of the province’s Accessibility Standards Advisory Council, called attention to the lack of incentives to comply with the law or improve accessibility, the lack of accountability for outcomes and the lack of data collection on the experiences of people with disabilities. The law’s implementation is not exclusively the responsibility of the Ford government, Lepofsky noted, but they had a lot of potential to move forward on the file.Article content
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