{"id":23138,"date":"2022-10-21T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/?post_type=submission&#038;p=23138"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:00:30","slug":"canada-must-take-urgent-action-on-disability-poverty-and-pass-bill-c-22","status":"publish","type":"submission","link":"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/submission\/canada-must-take-urgent-action-on-disability-poverty-and-pass-bill-c-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada must take urgent action on disability poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bill C-22: Creating the Canada Disability Benefit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2022, LEAF Communications &amp; Advocacy Manager Jen Gammad appeared as a witness in a Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities meeting on Bill C-22,&nbsp;<em>An Act to reduce poverty and to support the financial security of persons with disabilities by establishing the Canada disability benefit and making a consequential amendment to the Income Tax Act.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately one in four disabled women in Canada live below the poverty line, compared to one in ten non-disabled women or men. With the cost of living on the rise for all Canadians, the need to act on disability poverty is more urgent than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with the recommendations in LEAF&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/publication\/basic-income-gender-and-disability\/\">Basic Income, Gender and Disability report<\/a>, we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LEAF-Bill-C22-HUMA-Brief.pdf\">supported the quick passage of Bill C-22<\/a>,&nbsp;which aims to implement a Canada Disability Benefit. We strongly recommended that members of disabled communities lead every stage of rolling out the benefit, including design, implementation, and evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LEAF-Bill-C22-HUMA-Brief.pdf\">Read the full submission.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2023, the Bill received Royal Assent and is now law. <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LEAF-Bill-C22-HUMA-Brief.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">LEAF-Bill-C22-HUMA-Brief<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23138","submission","type-submission","status-publish","hentry","category-disability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canada must take urgent action on disability poverty - LEAF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaf.ca\/fr\/submission\/canada-must-take-urgent-action-on-disability-poverty-and-pass-bill-c-22\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canada must take urgent action on disability poverty - LEAF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bill C-22: Creating the Canada Disability Benefit In November 2022, LEAF Communications &amp; 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