Get As Many Voters As Possible to Watch TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin’s Interview of AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on the Ontario Election’s Disability Issues Archived on YouTube

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update

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Get As Many Voters As Possible to Watch TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin’s Interview of AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on the Ontario Election’s Disability Issues Archived on YouTube

February 25, 2025

Did you miss the February 24, 2025 interview of the Ontario election’s disability issues on Ontario’s flagship public affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin with AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky? You can watch it online any time you want, on your computer, tablet, smart phone or smart TV! Please share it with others on social media and by email. If you want to cut and paste the link to share with others, it is https://youtu.be/SQB4dGdxGXk?si=8YHFAhP9PyOoFbq7

In a short 11 minutes, David Lepofsky summarized the key disability accessibility issues in this Ontario election. The host Steve Paikin was ill so the interview was by guest host Jeyan Jeganathan.

TVO typically posts a transcript of interviews like this within a few days.

Urge as many people as possible, including candidates in this election, to watch this discussion. Forward this update to them. Below is a link to emails of all the candidates that we could find.

With just a handful of days left until Voting Day, you can use this interview as a major way to inform voters about issues that matter to 2.9 million Ontarians with disabilities and to all others who are bound to get a disability as they age.

We applaud the staff of The Agenda for once again being a leader in the media by focusing election coverage upon disability issues. We regret that despite our best efforts, too many major newspapers and networks have not informed their readers and viewers about these issues. The public has a right to know about them.

For More Background on This Election’s Disability Issues

The text of the Accessible Ontario Pledge sought by the AODA Alliance.
The Ontario Green Party’s response to the AODA Alliance request for the Accessible Ontario Pledge.
The Ontario New Democratic Party’s response to the AODA Alliance request for the Accessible Ontario Pledge.
The Ontario Liberal Party’s response to the request for the Accessible Ontario Pledge.
The online video of the January 6, 2025, AODA Alliance news conference at Queen’s Park, unveiling the Accessible Ontario Pledge.
A list of candidates in the 2025 Ontario election assembled by AODA Alliance volunteers.
The open letter to the party leaders, signed by 33 disability organizations, calling on them to make the Accessible Ontario Pledge.

A timeline of major events over the past 30 years in the grassroots campaign for accessibility in Ontario.

The AODA Alliance’s efforts to raise disability issues in this Ontario election.