Email and Tweet Federal Election Candidates! Press Them to Make the Accessible Canada Pledge

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update

United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities

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Email and Tweet Federal Election Candidates! Press Them to Make the Accessible Canada Pledge

 

April 13, 2025

 

SUMMARY

 

The AODA Alliance has posted online a list of all the 2025 federal election candidates across Canada we can find, with email addresses and Twitter handles (when available). Please email and/or tweet as many as you can. Urge them to make the Accessible Canada Pledge, and urge their party leader to do the same. This Update gives you everything you need.

 

There’s no need to reach out to Green Party candidates. The Green Party has already made the Accessible Canada Pledge. It is the only party to do so up to now. We’ll announce if and when we hear from any other parties.

 

The Accessible Canada Pledge would ensure that the sluggish implementation and enforcement of the Accessible Canada Act becomes swift, strong and effective, that air passengers with disabilities stop suffering horrific mistreatment by Canadian airlines, and that the Canada Disabilities Benefit Act at last fulfils its purpose of lifting people with disabilities out of poverty.

 

The AODA Alliance sent the three-plank Accessible Canada Pledge to the federal party leaders on March 20, 2025. Over two dozen major disability organizations co-signed an open letter that calls on federal party leaders to make the Accessible Canada Pledge to meet the urgent needs of over 8 million people with disabilities in Canada.

 

The AODA Alliance is non-partisan. We don’t support or oppose any party. We want all parties to make the Accessible Canada Pledge. Check out a great 3-minute, April 3, 2025 CBC News report on this issue at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5b6cc4dNOk

 

How You Can Help

 

 

 

  • If you are on Twitter (also called “X”), send tweets to candidates. If you don’t have time to write your own tweets, then just follow @AODAAlliance and @DavidLepofsky and retweet our tweets to the candidates over the next days.

 

Here are four tweets you might wish to use. Put a candidate’s Twitter handle right before this text. The AODA Alliance is using tweets like these too!

 

Tweet #1

 

Will you make the Accessible Canada pledge to tear down barriers impeding 8 million people with disabilities in Canada and to lift impoverished people with disabilities out of poverty? https://www.aodaalliance.org/whats-new/disability-advocates-press-federal-party-leaders-to-make-the-accessible-canada-pledge-in-the-impending-federal-election-to-address-the-urgent-needs-of-over-8-million-people-with-disabilities-in-ca/ #Xlxn2025

 

 

 Tweet #2

 

Will you press your party leader to make the Accessible Canada Pledge? The Green Party of Canada made this pledge. So should your party! https://www.aodaalliance.org/canada/green-party-makes-the-accessible-canada-pledge-to-over-8-million-people-with-disabilities-in-canada-will-the-other-federal-parties-do-the-same/ #Elxn2025

 

Tweet #3

 

Have you watched the @CBCNews report on this election’s disability issues? Make the Accessible Canada Pledge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5b6cc4dNOk #Elxn2025

 

 

Tweet #4

 

Read the @Metroland column on this election’s disability issues! Trump’s tariff war is an important issue but isn’t this election’s only issue! https://www.aodaalliance.org/whats-new/aoda-alliance-chairs-monthly-column-in-the-toronto-stars-metroland-publications-explores-federal-elections-disability-issues-that-the-mainstream-media-hasnt-covered/ #Elxn2025

 

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