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Transportation of Persons with Disabilities in Canada: Triumphs and Tribulations

  • December 29, 2015
  • Kimberly Srivastava

As of August 1, 2022, bakerlaw has joined forces with Ross & McBride LLP.
Our team is excited to become part of the formidable group of human rights, employment, and constitutional lawyers at Ross &smp; McBride. Our current and future clients will continue to receive the personalized, high-quality representation that has become synonymous with bakerlaw, and will benefit from the collaborative, cross-functional approach to complex issues that both we and Ross & McBride value. With the added resources of larger, full-service firm, this collaboration will allow us to take on new clients for the first time since October 2021. If you are seeking legal advice, please contact us at contact@rossmcbride.com.

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Bakerlaw has worked extensively in the area of advancing the rights of persons with disabilities in the transportation context.

Bakerlaw represented the Council of Canadians with Disabilities in the Via Rail case in 2007 click here to read the case (link). To read a paper regarding the decision by bakerlaw’s David Baker and Sarah Godwin (formerly of bakerlaw) click here (link).

The VIA Rail case came as a welcome change from the previous trend regarding Canada’s policies and practices pertaining to the transportation of persons with disabilities. To review a paper written by bakerlaw’s David Baker: Moving Bakwards: Canada’s State of Transportation Accessibility in an International Context click here (link).

 

 

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