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May, 2000
Bringing Down the Barriers:
The Labour Market and Women with Disabilities in Ontario
The following experts on women with disabilities are available to discuss the issues raised in this report:
Francine Arsenault, Chair, Kingston Independent Living Centre, Tel: (613) 353-2773
Ms. Arsenault is the past-Chair of the Centre for the Advancement of Community-based Rehabilitation at Queen's University and the Canadian Council on Disability.
Tanis Doe, Research Sociologist, e-mail: tanisd@home.com
Tanis Doe, PhD lives with disabilities and has researched labour force, gender and disability issues for over 10 years in the U.S. and Canada.
Collinda Joseph, Project Officer, Partnerships Liaison, Office for Disability Issues, HRDC, Ottawa
Tel: (819) 953-5347; fax: (819) 953-4797.
Ms. Joseph lives with disabilities and was an advisor on the Bringing Down the Barriers project.
Rabia Khedr, Co-chair, ERDCO, Toronto, Tel: (905) 569-9997, ext. 27
Ms. Kedhr is an advocate for ethno-racial people with disabilities and works as the Client Services Coordinator at Employment ACCESS, a project of the Coalition for Persons with Disabilities, Peel-Halton-Dufferin.
Sally Kimpson, Researcher, Victoria, Tel: (250) 595-7655; e-mail: skimpson@uvic.ca
Ms. Kimpson lives with disability and has conducted research on the relationship between income support and work in the lives of women with disabilities.
Lucie Lemieux-Brassard, Criminologist, activist on disability issues, Montreal, Tel: (514) 259-0519;
cell: (514) 943-3995.
Ms. Brassard is the Quebec representative on the Canadian Council on Disability and has won a human rights award for her work to promote the rights of people with disabilities.
Traci Walters, National Director, Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres (CAILC), Ottawa
Tel: (613) 563-2581; e-mail: cailc@magma.ca.
The CAILC is an organization run by people with disabilities which works on issues related to independent living and employment for people with disabilities.
Related Material
Canadian Council on Social Development,
190 O'Connor Street, Suite 100,
Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2R3
Tel: (613) 236-8977, Fax: (613) 236-2750, Web: www.ccsd.ca, Email: council@ccsd.ca
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