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FW: Canadians living with disabilities say key issues are being overlooked in Election 44
From: Georgene MacDonald [mailto:] Sent: September 7, 2021 12:24 PM To: Jannette Amini jamini@FRONTENACCOUNTY.CA; Darlene Plumley dplumley@frontenacislands.ca; Denis Doyle denisdoyle@kos.net Subject: Canadians living with disabilities say key issues are being overlooked in Election 44
Hello - I thought you might find this of interest. Regards … Janet
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Platform Inaccessibility? Canadians living with disabilities say key issues are being overlooked in Election 44
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Canadians emphatic that post-pandemic recovery should be not just green, but inclusive September 7, 2021 – Now well into Canada’s 44th election, party leaders are laying out their visions of Canada’s future in a bid to gain an edge in an increasingly tight race. While criss-crossing the country, party leaders have made promises on a number of subjects from tax reform and the government deficit to energy policy and climate change. One subject rarely broached in townhalls, photo-ops, and media scrums is how best to support Canadians living with disabilities. A new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute, conducted in partnership with the Rick Hansen Foundation, confirms this, finding two-thirds (67%) of Canadians living with a disability don’t think the question of how to best support those with a disability is receiving enough attention. Further, one-third of the Canadian population overall (34%) are unable to
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identify a party that they believe has the best policies to support those living with a disability. Of those with a lived experience of disability, two-in-five either don’t know (25%) or believe that no party has the answer (17%). On the specific question of accessibility, those living with disability are clear that there is still much room for improvement: fully 86 per cent report having their daily activities impacted at least occasionally by their condition. The favoured solution for four-in-five Canadians—both those living with a disability (80%) and without (78%)—is to implement some form of harmonized national standard of accessibility.
More Key Findings:
When it comes to who has the best proposals for supporting those living with disabilities, one-in-three (32%) Canadians living with disabilities choose the NDP. Notably the NDP is also the second choice for those living with disabilities who voted for both the Liberals (36%) and the Conservatives (12%) in 2019. On the question of accessibility, 92 per cent of Canadians believe that taxpayer funded projects should be held to the highest standards—a finding with important implications for post-pandemic infrastructure recovery projects. Canadians are clear that they do not want taxpayer money spent on building new barriers to accessibility, with the majority of respondents (56%) preferring a priority on both environmental and accessibility concerns 3
Four-in-five Canadians (78%) surveyed believe there should be a national standard of accessibility. When thinking about what this should look like, 63 per cent say it should be to the highest existing standards and practices. For more on how we define disability, and a comparison with Statistics Canada figures, please see our previous study here.
Link to the poll here: www.angusreid.org/
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