PolitiKit

Work with Government of Canada to endorse and support the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Program as the national standard to assess and certify the built environment, by working to maintain or expand government funding.

Work with the various government programs that support accessibility, inclusion, and a world without barriers, particularly in the built environment around an accessibility Certification Program which will assess and rate the built environment of Canada against a common standard (example Canadian Standards Association).

Comprehensive disability income programs, with respect to persons with MS and other chronic and episodic disabilities

Canada Pension Plan – Disability with respect to eligibility for persons with MS and other chronic and episodic disabilities

Canada Disability Benefit Regulations, with respect to creating a benefit that can be accessed by Canadians with episodic disabilities and lifts Canadians with disabilities out of poverty

Disability Tax Credit with respect to making it refundable and ensuring eligibility for Canadians with episodic disabilities

SMALL BUSINESS – Legislation, regulations and support programs that give Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the tools to grow in Canada and internationally, including reducing their red tape and compliance burden.

IMMIGRATION - Reducing regulatory burdens for employers; promoting immigration to small, rural and northern communities; supporting regional and local community immigration strategies; maintaining and modernizing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program; Facilitating pathways to permanent residency for temporary residents (international students and TFWs; expediting and simplifying foreign credential recognition, calling for an international student and global talent strategy; improving language training as well as settlement and employment supports to newcomers, aligning immigration programs with labour market needs, improving the Start-Up Visa process, improving client services to potential immigrants and newcomers.

Call for implementation of Canada Disability Benefit as Federal Income Supplement

Ensuring all low-income Canadians have access to the Canada Child Benefit and that rates are indexed to inflation

Advocate for policies to address the financialization of housing

Providing update on current grant funded program to ensure funding continues via Employment and Social Development Canada.

March of Dimes Canada is advocating for a person-centered Canada Disability Benefit policy statement and guidelines, and in support of effective federal inter-departmental and Federal/Provincial/Territorial agreements which ensure recipients receive the full benefit of the Canada Disability Benefit without impacting existing income support or downstream programs, services and/or benefits.

March of Dimes Canada is advocating for brain injury supports, including the passing and implementation of a National Brain Injury strategy (Bill C-206), and funding to support services for stroke survivors.

Policies that support closing the gap in appropriate, affordable and trustworthy financial help for people with low incomes.

Stacking of new leave entitlements such as paid sick leave and personal leave days under the Canada Labour Code.

Lobbying relativement au droit d’auteur canadien afin de : - limiter l’exception relative à l’utilisation équitable dans un contexte d’éducation dans la loi canadienne sur le droit d'auteur, - s'assurer que l'intelligence artificielle (IA) se développe et se déploie de manière responsable et en garantissant le respect de la législation sur le droit d'auteur, - et veiller à ce que les programmes d'aide à l'accessibilité respectent les législations canadienne et internationale sur le droit d’auteur.

Regulatory and policy alignment between Canada and the U.S.

Revision of the Duty and Rest Period Rules for Railway Operating Employees and fatigue

Advocating for increased funding to the apprenticeship incentive grant and completion grant and the Union Innovation Training Program (UTIP)

C-5 An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act.

Advocating for a program to promote labour mobility between areas of higher unemployment and labour shortages. This program would grant favoured tax status to participants (workers) in the construction and maintenance sector travelling to obtain full time employment in a trade deemed to be experiencing labour shortages.

Federal Budget - with respect to infrastructure funding, tax incentives for skilled labour and funding for union training centres.