AODA Alliance
ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT ALLIANCE
Media Advisory for Immediate Release
At Monday January 6, 2025 10 a.m. Queen’s Park News Conference, Disability Advocates to Unveil Strategy in Response to Ontario Government Failure to Lead Ontario to Become Accessible to Ontarians with Disabilities by 2025
January 3, 2025 Toronto: Disability advocates will hold a news conference on Monday, January 6, 2025 at 10 a.m. at the Queen’s Park Media Studio. They will unveil their comprehensive new grassroots strategy in response to the Ontario Government’s abject failure to fulfil its duty under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (“AODA”) to lead Ontario to become accessible to 2.9 million Ontarians with disabilities by January 1, 2025.
On May 10, 2005, Ontario’s Legislature unanimously passed the landmark AODA, Canada’s first comprehensive disability accessibility law. It requires the Ontario Government to lead this province to become accessible to people with all kinds of disabilities by January 1, 2025. Yet, on January 1, 2025, Ontarians with disabilities awoke to a province that is still replete with many eminently preventable disability barriers, including barriers that the Ontario Government itself created.
What should Ontario now do about this? At this news conference, the non-partisan AODA Alliance (which has led the campaign to get the AODA effectively implemented) will unveil its comprehensive new plan for Ontario to live up to the AODA’s goal. All political parties have supported the AODA since the day it was first introduced into the Legislature.
The AODA Alliance’s comprehensive new action strategy will build on the wrenching accounts of disability barriers which MPPs heard about on November 25, 2024, when individuals with disabilities addressed MPPs from Ontario’s four political parties at the community public hearings at Queen’s Park that the AODA Alliance organized. View those public hearings online.
Contact: AODA Alliance Chair, David Lepofsky
Email: aodafeedback@gmail.com
X (Formerly known as Twitter): @aodaalliance
For more background
- A timeline of major events over the past 30 years in the grassroots campaign for accessibility in Ontario.
- The AODA Alliance’s captioned online video series of the major news conferences and other key events in the 30-year campaign for accessibility for people with disabilities.
- For the AODA Alliance’s work from 2005 to the present, visit aodaalliance.org