Evidence Network

Who’s in charge here?

The tangled web of disability governance and policy in Canada At a recent Senate committee hearing on the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), the father of a child with autism made a heart-felt plea and a chilling statement:  “We are impacted by the inability to secure our son’s future. […]

“What happens to our sons and daughters with disabilities when we die?”

Fix the RDSP and close the poverty gap of Canadians with disabilities   Canada’s Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) is the first poverty-fighting tool for people with disabilities in the world. This remarkable example of federal/provincial/territorial cooperation, which was created in 2008, has already changed the lives of more than 150,000 Canadians with disabilities. Unfortunately, […]

The federal government denies the Disability Tax Credit to those who need it – and are eligible by law

This story began when I offered to represent the mother of a three-year-old with PKU, a rare genetic disorder, in a federal tax court. She had never even fought a parking ticket before she went against the federal government. We won. It turns out, evidence matters. But the story doesn’t end there. We went to […]

Refus obstiné du gouvernement fédéral d’accorder le crédit d’impôt pour personnes handicapées à des personnes qui en ont besoin et qui y ont droit

Une version de ce commentaire est parue dans L’Aut’ Journal Cette histoire a commencé quand j’ai offert à la mère d’un enfant de trois ans atteint de la phénylcétonurie (PCU), un trouble génétique rare, de la représenter devant une cour fiscale fédérale, elle qui n’avait même jamais contesté un billet de stationnement avant de poursuivre le gouvernement. […]