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Inclusion Canada welcomes several measures in the 2026 Federal budget that will help people with disabilities and their families manage rising living costs. However, we are disappointed that the budget fails to deliver meaningful improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and other critical supports needed to reduce disability poverty.
Read our analysis of the budget in this media release.
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ALT Inclusion Canada responds to the 2026–2027 Federal Budget, urging that building a strong Canada must include people with an intellectual disability, over a clear photo of Parliament’s Centre Block and Peace Tower.
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Today brings the unofficial end of summer with school back in session for most kids across Canada. It is an exceptionally stressful for parents of children with disabilities due to a widespread lack of resources for inclusive education and proper classroom support.
Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr was a guest on CBC The National and shared how many parents worry their child will be segregated, pushed out or denied full access to inclusive learning.
Click here to watch the news item.
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…
We welcome your support for inclusive education.
ALT Krista Carr (CEO of Inclusion Canada) has short blonde hair and round glasses. She is speaking directly to camera in a TV news interview about funding cuts leaving some children with special needs feeling excluded.
Tammy Gallant retweeted
There are many benefits to the Ready Willing and Able program. One is the development of the Inclusive Workplace web resource. It provides actionable resources to assist people with intellectual disabilities or autism throughout their career planning, application, and workplace integration processes. It also provides great resources to employers. The website can be found here -> theinclusiveworkplace.ca/en/…
Contact your Member of Parliament and urge them to support the renewal of Ready, Willing and Able. It has provided meaningful employment for 6,300 people throughout Canada and provided employers with excellent, dedicated talent.
@AllianceAutism
ALT The Government of Canada’s investment in Ready Willing and Able allowed Inclusion Canada and the Autism Alliance of Canada to launch The Inclusive Workplace, an online resource for businesses, job seekers, and workers. If RWA’s funding is renewed, 50 new resources will be added to The Inclusive Workplace supporting employers to hire inclusively.
ALT L’investissement du gouvernement du Canada dans Prêts, disponibles et capables a permis à Inclusion Canada et à l’Alliance canadienne de l’autisme de lancer Le Milieu de Travail Inclusif, une ressource en ligne destinée aux entreprises, aux personnes en recherche d’emploi et aux travailleuses et travailleurs. Si le financement du programme est renouvelé, 50 nouvelles ressources seront ajoutées au Milieu de Travail Inclusif.
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This is a fantastic read. Inclusive hirings are a win-win situation. It is illogical for businesses to struggle with "help wanted" signs while half a million capable people with intellectual disabilities and autism are sitting on the sidelines. Inclusion Canada, in partnership with the Autism Alliance of Canada, runs the Ready, Willing and Able (RWA) initiative.
This program has successfully placed thousands of individuals into competitive roles, demonstrating that this demographic is more than capable of meeting employers' needs across the country.
Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr and Inclusion Saskatchewan executive director Christina Martens-Funk spoke with Sask Today.
Read the article here: sasktoday.ca/yorkton-today/y…
ALT Screenshot of a news article titled "Saskatchewan's hidden workforce is ready to get to work," with a photo of a construction worker carrying two metal pipes through an unfinished building.
Tammy Gallant retweeted
[WATCH] There is a striking contradiction in the country’s economy. Canada faces a severe labour shortage while simultaneously holding a massive labour surplus.
This paradox exists because employers are desperately seeking workers, yet roughly 75% of working-age people with intellectual disabilities or autism remain unemployed or underemployed despite being capable and willing to work.
Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada was a guest of CTV Vancouver Morning where she highlighted there are roughly 500,000 working-age individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism that are being left out of the traditional workforce.
Krista also gave an example of what is working: Ready, Willing and Able (RWA) is a national workforce development initiative designed to increase the labour market participation of job seekers with intellectual disabilities and autism.
RWA is delivered in partnership by Inclusion Canada and the @AllianceAutism and has supported employers to hire 6300 talented employees with an intellectual disability or autism.
You can watch the segment here:
ctvnews.ca/vancouver/video/2…
Tammy Gallant retweeted
Ready, Willing and Able has resulted in 6,300 jobs across Canada. The program works. The need remains. Now we need your help.
Contact your Member of Parliament and ask them to support renewed funding for Ready, Willing and Able in the next federal budget. Together we can build a stronger and more inclusive workforce.
@RWAworks
@AllianceAutism
ALT Renew Ready, Willing and Able. - $50 Million - Five Year Extension - 4,000 More Jobs
Tammy Gallant retweeted
Canada's labour shortages won't be solved by overlooking talent that's already here. Inclusion Canada and the @AllianceAutism point out that 500,000 people with intellectual disabilities and on the autism spectrum are Ready, Willing and Able to work and are waiting for opportunities.
In this Opinion Editorial, we say renewing and expanding the Ready, Willing & Able national initiative is a practical solution that helps employers fill workforce gaps while building a more inclusive economy. So far it has resulted in 6,300 jobs throughout all provinces and territories.
saltwire.com/newfoundland-la…
#InclusiveEmployment #ReadyWillingAble #LabourShortages #cdnpoli
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Opinion: The MAID committee got it right on mental illness. But Parliament must go further.
We agree. Track 2 MAID is a separate pathway to assisted suicide that singles out people with disabilities. It is discriminatory and must be repealed.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
#DisabilityRights #cdnpoli
Tammy Gallant retweeted
A special committee of MPs and Senators has been hearing testimony since March on whether to widen Canada’s assisted suicide law.
Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr offers the full picture of the country’s dangerous MAID system.
She calls on Parliament to say no to expansion for persons whose sole medical condition is a mental illness and scale back MAID eligibility to what was originally intended in 2016.
Track 2 MAID which discriminates against persons with disabilities must be rescinded.
This piece is being distributed throughout the country.
sudbury.com/columns/guest-co…
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Day 3 at the UN Continues 🇺🇳
"In my country, the worst abuse does not always hide in the shadows. Sometimes it wears a suit and calls itself policy."
Speaking today at the United Nations, Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr delivered a passionate message about the human rights challenges still facing people with intellectual disabilities in Canada.
"In Canada, if you are in despair and you do not have a disability, the state fights to keep you alive. If you have a disability, it now offers to help you die. Same pain. Two answers."
More than one person with a disability accesses MAiD under Track 2 every day. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has called on Canada to repeal these provisions, recognizing the discriminatory impact they have on persons with disabilities.
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the #CRPD, we must do more than celebrate progress. We must confront the policies, systems, and practices that continue to deny people with disabilities equality, dignity, and belonging.
We will continue to speak truth to power, challenge discrimination wherever it exists, and amplify the voices of people with disabilities and their families—at home, at the United Nations, and around the world.
Every person has a need and inherent right to be valued, respected and empowered to reach their full potential.
See video link to Krista's full remarks at the UN 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=mJUGU32y…
#COSP19 #DisabilityRights
Tammy Gallant retweeted
Happening RIGHT NOW at the UN: #CSFCRPD, in advance of #COSP19
Today is the Civil Society Forum, when organizations of persons with disabilities from around the world come together to set a shared agenda. This is happening the day before COSP19 begins when governments take the floor. It is one of the world's largest gatherings on disability rights, as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marks its 20th anniversary. #CRPD20
Inclusion Canada is here as part of Canada's civil society delegation, alongside Canadian Youth Delegate Ainsley Wood. Today our President, Moira Wilson, a parent of a person with an intellectual disability and one of the family leaders this movement is built on, will speak on creating a world free from exploitation, violence and abuse for all persons with disabilities.
We will also host a side-event today on Turning Concluding Observations into Domestic Action.
Why we show up?
Canada signed a treaty promising equal rights for persons with disabilities. This week the world is examining whether Canada is keeping it's promises.
We are led and governed by people with lived experience, including people with intellectual disabilities and family members. We are here to ensure the voices of people with intellectual disabilities—especially those with significant disabilities and those who communicate in different ways—are represented and heard.
What gets said here does not stay here. It comes home. To Parliament and to the courts.
Stay tuned for more updates.
#COSP19 #CSFCRPD #CRPD20
ALT Image showing, Left - right President Moira Wilson (left), Krista Carr, Tara Levandier, Kurt Goddard, and Ainsley Wood. All are seating in the UN General Assembly.
ALT Image of Inclusion Canada's delegation appearing outside of the UN General Assembly HQ in New York. Left - right Kurt Goddard, Tara Levandier, President Moira Wilson, Krista Carr, CEO.
Tammy Gallant retweeted
Ninety disability and mental health organizations have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Carney and Parliamentarians urging them to permanently exclude people with mental illness from eligibility for assisted suicide.
Under current law, people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness will become eligible to apply for assisted suicide beginning in March 2027.
The letter, which is addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Health Minister Marjorie Michel and Justice Minister Sean Fraser, says that would be "a significant and misguided expansion."
Inclusion Canada's Krista Carr spoke with Postmedia News. She also called for the discriminatory Track 2 access point of assisted suicide to be repealed because it singles out persons with disabilities.
torontosun.com/news/national…
#cdnpoli #MAID
Tammy Gallant retweeted
Ninety disability and mental-health organizations are calling for the federal government to permanently halt the expansion of Canada's assisted suicide law for individuals whose sole condition is mental illness.
The groups, including Inclusion Canada and its provincial and territorial partners, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel, asking them to introduce legislation that prevents the expansion of #MAID.
A temporary pause on that expansion is due to expire next March.
Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr spoke with The Canadian Press about the letter. She also outlined how the separate pathway of MAID for persons with disabilities, called Track 2, is discriminatory and must also be repealed.
From 2021-2024, 2,050 people died from Track 2 MAID according to the most recent statistics from Health Canada.
Please join our efforts. Get in touch with your MP and Senators and urge them to end this discrimination against persons with disabilities.
thecanadianpressnews.ca/heal…. #cdnpoli #euthanasia
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More than 90 disability and mental health organizations from across the country are registering their concerns about the further expansion of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law.
The groups are opposed to MAiD access being widened to people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness. They have shared this position in an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser, and Health Minister Marjorie Michel. The letter was copied to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) comprised of MPs and Senators.
Inclusion Canada is one of the signatories to the letter. People with disabilities and mental illness who face poverty, housing insecurity, social isolation, and barriers to timely health care need help and hope — not MAiD.
Please share this letter with your local Member of Parliament and Senator and urge them not to expand assisted suicide and also repeal the discriminatory Track 2 pathway to MAiD that is only for people with disabilities.
Letter:
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Full press release: inclusioncanada.ca/post/cana…
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Tammy Gallant retweeted
Thank You @KristaCarrNB for continuing to advocate for persons with Disabilities and against Track 2 Assisted Suicided
@HoCCommittees #AMAD #MAiD
#RepealTrack2
#ScrapMAiD
#StopStateEugenics
#FundCanadians – at Canada
Our CEO Krista Carr was a guest on Global News Radio in Toronto last week for an engaging discussion with host Brad Smith on assisted suicide in Canada.
They discussed Krista’s appearance before the interparliamentary committee presently considering expanding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for people whose sole medical condition is a mental illness.
The host shared his own previous battles with mental health issues and conceded that most Canadians don’t realize there are two different entry points for MAiD.
Krista shared details of how Track 2 MAiD lacks guardrails and discriminates against people with disabilities. She also shared examples of the inquiries Inclusion Canada receives from people who are being offered assisted death despite wanting the supports they need to live a good life.
People don’t want to give up hope and we shouldn’t give up on people.
Note: The segment begins at 24:33
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Tammy Gallant retweeted
Our CEO Krista Carr was a guest on Global News Radio in Toronto last week for an engaging discussion with host Brad Smith on assisted suicide in Canada.
They discussed Krista’s appearance before the interparliamentary committee presently considering expanding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for people whose sole medical condition is a mental illness.
The host shared his own previous battles with mental health issues and conceded that most Canadians don’t realize there are two different entry points for MAiD.
Krista shared details of how Track 2 MAiD lacks guardrails and discriminates against people with disabilities. She also shared examples of the inquiries Inclusion Canada receives from people who are being offered assisted death despite wanting the supports they need to live a good life.
People don’t want to give up hope and we shouldn’t give up on people.
Note: The segment begins at 24:33
open.spotify.com/episode/3aK…
Tammy Gallant retweeted
Inclusion Canada CEO Krista Carr was a witness last night at the Joint Parliamentary Committee studying Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying regime.
The group of 10 MPs and five Senators is considering whether to expand Canada's assisted suicide law even further - to include people whose sole medical condition is mental illness.
Carr urged the committee not to widen the law and in fact repeal the second stream of MAiD. It was added in 2021 and discriminates against people with disabilities. Carr explains how in this statement.
Between 2021 and 2024, 2,050 people have died from Track 2 assisted suicide in Canada. #cdnpoli #MAID
