Seniors, Disabilities, & Retirement

Disabilities platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Provide $25M/year more to the Enabling Accessibility Fund to ensure workplace accessibility

    "Make buildings more accessible by increasing funding to the Enabling Accessibility Fund to ensure that workplaces are accessible and incorporating more barrier-free and barrier-free ready designs into upcoming housing catalogues and into Canada’s building efforts so that new housing is accessible to all Canadians." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

  • Review and reform the process for applying for the Disability Tax Credit, and consider expanding the eligibility criteria to include additional impairments

    "Review and reform the process to apply for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) now that the DTC has become the gateway to key federal programs like the Canada Disability Benefit, the CCB for children with disabilities, the dental benefit, and various other programs. We will also consider expanding the eligibility criteria to include additional impairments." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Develop a Disability Justice Framework to address long-standing inequities, biases, and systemic discrimination within the justice system and before the law

    "Guarantee equal access to justice for people with disabilities by developing a Disability Justice Framework to address long-standing inequities, biases, and systemic discrimination against persons with disabilities within the justice system and before the law." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-22

  • Require Canadian publishers to provide an accessible copy of all e-books produced or released in Canada by 2030

    "Enable the fuller inclusion of people with disabilities in academic, social, and professional life by requiring Canadian publishers to provide an accessible copy of all e-books produced or released in Canada by 2030." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • Direct the Canadian Transportation Agency to develop a plan to address accessibility concerns on aircraft and other modes of transport

    "Direct the Canadian Transportation Agency to develop a plan to address persistent complaints about accessibility on aircraft and other modes of transportation." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-21

Conservative

  • Streamline and simplify the Disability Tax Credit, including renaming the certificate and making eligibility automatic for related programmes

    "Streamline and simplify the Disability Tax Credit, including renaming the certificate and making eligibility automatic for related programs." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

We don't have any Bloc policies on Disabilities.

NDP

  • Restore a dedicated government ministry for people with disabilities
We don't have any Green policies on Disabilities.

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