Projects

The policy environment is perfectly designed to produce the problems that people with disabilities experience.  This is a core assumption of the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance.  In other words, if people with disabilities in Canada experience a problem in their day-to-day lives, it can almost always be tracked back to a gap in the policy environment (e.g. regulations, legislation, program).

Since 2009, the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance – a unique pan-Canadian collaboration between researchers, federal and provincial policy makers, and community organizations – has been committed to evaluating and improving disability policy in Canada.