A list of comprehensive reports

25 Years Later: When Will Action Replace Studies?

A Chronology of Government of Canada Reports on Disability

Below is a list of comprehensive reports outlining the issues for Persons with Disabilities. These reports date back a quarter century and propose a wide range of policy solutions. Each one identifies disability supports as a critical issue and underlines the need for urgent action. The issues are well understood. It is time to take action on the commitments made to persons with disabilities. When will governments address the systemic issues of exclusion, poverty and a lack of access to needed disability supports?

• Obstacles: A Report of the Special Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped, Feb. 1981
  
  
• A Portrait of Persons with Disabilities, 1995
  
  
• Federal Task Force on Disability. “Equal Citizenship for Canadians with Disabilities: The Will to Act” October, 1996
  
  
• In Unison: A Canadian Approach to Disability Issues- A Vision Paper, Oct. 1998
  
  
• Future Directions to Address Disability Issues for the Government of Canada: Working Together for Full Citizenship, 1999
  
  
• In Unison 2000: Persons with Disabilities in Canada, 2000
  
  
• Disability in Canada: A 2001 Profile, 2001
  
  
• Advancing the inclusion of persons with disabilities: A Government of Canada report, 2002
  
  
• Advancing the inclusion of persons with disabilities: A Government of Canada report, 2004
  
  
• Canadian Attitudes Towards Disability, 2004 (prepared by Environics)
  
  
• Supports and Services for Adults and children aged 5-14 with disabilities in Canada: an analysis of data on needs and gaps, 2004