A/HRC/43/41/Add.5 transportation (air and rail). The State has committed CAD 290 million over six years to implement the new legislation. Page 5, Paragraph 20 Recommended language 5. At Provincial and Territorial levels, only Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec have enacted disability-specific or accessibility legislation, none of which is comprehensive nor fully in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Various provincial and territorial laws explicitly refer to persons with disabilities or their families, but with great variations from one jurisdiction to another, which results in different levels of enjoyment of rights through the country. Policy areas that fall within these jurisdictions include health and social services, administration of justice, and education. Page 5, Paragraph 22 Recommended language 6. The Accessible Canada Act amends the Canadian Human Rights Act by designating the Canadian Human Rights Commission as the independent body responsible for monitoring the Government’s implementation of the Convention as required by Article 33(2). The Special Rapporteur welcomes this positive development and underlines the importance of providing the Commission an unequivocal national monitoring mandate and appropriate financial and human resources to implement this function. In addition, she encourages each province/territory to designate their own independent monitoring mechanisms, which could coordinate with the national mechanism and support the national monitoring efforts. Comment/Rationale 7. Bill C-81 created this provision in section 28.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Page 6, Paragraph 23 Recommended language 8. Although, there are several examples in which the federal and provincial/territorial governments have come together to coordinate actions in diverse areas, there is no PanCanadian Strategy on the rights of persons with disabilities. Prior to the adoption of the Convention, in 1998, the federal and provincial/territorial governments, with the exception of Quebec who passed the Loi assurant l’exercice des droits des personnes handicapées in 1978, adopted a common vision and long-term policy directions aimed to address gaps in the provision of support services, employment and income security for persons with disabilities. A new comprehensive national policy is needed to secure the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Page 6, Paragraph 24: Recommended language 9. The Special Rapporteur highly welcomed the availability of data disaggregated by disability status, and the use of the Canadian Disability Screening Questions and the short set of questions of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics. These positive efforts are key to monitor the implementation of the Convention and the Sustainable Development Goals in 3