the recent passage of the accessible canada act in 2019 marked a commitment by the federal government to include people with disabilities as full citizens through barrier removal and accommodation. this followed the 2005 enactment of the accessibility for ontarians with disabilities act (aoda). these statutes were meant to signal a turning point away from the deep poverty and unemployment that is experienced by far too many people with disabilities every day. they suggested that canadian society was now committed to systematically identifying and removing the barriers in all spheres of society so that the talents of people with disabilities could be fostered for the betterment of all.
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in a world where even able bodied people are forced to rely on vaccine-hunting services on twitter to find them vaccines, the challenges facing people with disabilities are daunting.
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