03/27/2026
Chief Accessibility Officer (CAO) Stephanie Cadieux recently released her third report to the minister responsible for the Accessible Canada Act. This report covers overall progress under the ACA, with special emphasis on transportation.
Chief Accessibility Officer (CAO) Stephanie Cadieux recently released her third report to the minister responsible for the Accessible Canada Act. This report covers overall progress under the ACA, with special emphasis on transportation.
In preparing this report, the CAO asked several people with disabilities to share their lived experiences, to help convey the human toll of a lack of accessible transportation. Here’s what The Honourable Chantal Petitclerc, Senator, Independent Senators Group, shared:
“People with disabilities want to be active. They want it to be easy. They don’t want to be spending hours and days booking transport. They want to be able to be spontaneous, to pick up the phone and if someone says let’s go for a coffee, well, they don’t have to plan it for three days ahead. They can just say yes, of course I have time, let’s go. Everyone has a role to play, but we must always ensure that people with disabilities are at the center of decisions and at the heart of the work.”
– The Honourable Chantal Petitclerc, Senator, Independent Senators Group
It’s time for action on accessible transportation, so everyone can get where they need and want to go.
To learn what others had to say, and to access the report in full, visit the following link, where it is available in a variety of formats: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/corporate/office-chief-accessibility-officer/reports/annual-2025.html
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