Andrew Robb and Isabel Grant: Proposed B.C. accessibility legislation falls short

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The COVID 19 pandemic has laid bare the barriers and inequalities facing people with disabilities across all sectors of society. It is beyond time for B.C. to fulfil a long-standing promise to introduce an accessibility law to create a framework for the development of standards provincewide.
However, Bill 6, the proposed Accessible British Columbia Act introduced in April, has disappointed the disability community.
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Bill 6 would allow the government to create accessibility standards — rules that governments and other organizations must follow — in order to remove and prevent barriers to accessibility, including policies and practices, attitudes, environments, or almost anything else that makes it difficult for people with disabilities to participate equally in society.

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