Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2022-03-24 15:50:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Krista Wilcox (Director General, Office for Disability Issues, Department of Employment and Social Development)",
        "fr": "Mme Krista Wilcox (directrice g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, Bureau de la condition des personnes handicap\u00e9es, minist\u00e8re de l'Emploi et du D\u00e9veloppement social)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7052112\" data-originallang=\"en\">The enabling accessibility fund is a really important program that we deliver in the department. Its objective is to promote the accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities in our communities and in our workplaces. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7052113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Budget 2021 made significant investments into the enabling accessibility fund with $125 million over two years. That funding is going toward a number of important aspects of the program to help us improve accessibility across the country.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7052114\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Specifically, there was $100 million over two years that was announced and will help with the improvement of the social inclusion of persons with disabilities by supporting a greater number of small projects, which are projects that are under $100,000. Those will go toward not-for-profit organizations, including targeting women's shelters and shelters for victims of violence against women, small municipalities, indigenous organizations, territorial governments and businesses of all sizes for our workplace stream. That would help with about 900 renovations, retrofits and accessible technology projects through that investment. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7052115\" data-originallang=\"en\">There is also, as part of the early learning and child care funding that was announced, an additional\u2014</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7052112\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Fonds pour l'accessibilit\u00e9 est un programme tr\u00e8s important du minist\u00e8re. Son objectif est de promouvoir l'accessibilit\u00e9 et l'inclusion des personnes en situation de handicap dans nos collectivit\u00e9s et dans nos lieux de travail. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7052113\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le budget de 2021 comprenait d'importants investissements de 125 millions de dollars sur deux ans dans le Fonds pour l'accessibilit\u00e9. Cet argent servira \u00e0 financer certains aspects importants du programme, pour nous aider \u00e0 accro\u00eetre l'accessibilit\u00e9 d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre du pays. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7052114\" data-originallang=\"en\">Plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, un montant de 100 millions de dollars sur deux ans a \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9, et ce montant contribuera \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'inclusion sociale des personnes en situation de handicap, en permettant de soutenir un plus grand nombre de petits projets, c'est\u2011\u00e0\u2011dire des projets de moins de 100 000 $. Cela aidera les organismes sans but lucratif, y compris les refuges pour femmes et les refuges pour femmes victimes de violence, les petites municipalit\u00e9s, les organismes autochtones, les gouvernements territoriaux et les entreprises de toutes tailles dans notre volet en milieu de travail. Cet investissement contribuera \u00e0 environ 900 projets de r\u00e9novation, de modernisation et de technologies accessibles. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7052115\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a aussi, pour le financement de l'apprentissage et de la garde des jeunes enfants qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 annonc\u00e9, une somme suppl\u00e9mentaire... </p>"
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    "url": "/committees/human-resources/44-1/14/krista-wilcox-1/",
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    "document_url": "/committees/human-resources/44-1/14/",
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