Transport committee  One of the fundamental parts of the Accessibility Canada Act is that no policy or decision should be made in a vacuum without people with disabilities. That is the fundamental concept of that particular act and legislation, and it's not being adhered to in this particular situation.

Transport committee  I travel with my wheelchair, but I also have additional equipment.. If it goes on to the next location and I don't have that equipment, now I have to sleep in a room that I don't know is fully accessible without that equipment. It puts me into physical danger.

Transport committee  There's a service now being offered by American Express in the United States for its members who are travelling with disabilities. American Express will actually provide an individual to meet you at the airport and follow you along your journey until you get onto the plane, and then there will be another representative on the other side, if that's the service in the States.

Transport committee  Yes. Simply put, we have the Accessible Canada Act. We also have what Maayan Ziv is hitting on with the standards community designing standards that will ensure that people and organizations respect our equipment in the way our bodies are respected. Let's be honest, because at the same time the ACA could be amended or added to.

Transport committee  To begin with, it starts with a phone call to say, "I want to fly and I want to use your particular service", but to your question, sir, to actually design the physical plane itself, it starts right at the entrance. I don't know how many of you notice this when you go onto planes, but the next time you go onto a plane you'll notice this.

Transport committee  Yes, that's not a problem. There currently is quite a lot of technology and advancement on how to hold the wheelchair in place. Again, the number one question you have to look at is exactly what kind of communication is going on between the designers of airplanes and the designers of the equipment themselves.

Transport committee  As was stated, my name is Max Brault. I'm a senior consultant at BDO Canada, but I'm not here for my corporate responsibility; I'm here as an individual, and I want to make sure that's clear on the record. As most of you probably have read about my harrowing trip to Hawaii, what you don't know is that prior to COVID, I used to travel all the time.