Dear Minister Duncan, The Canadian Federation of the Blind (CFB) applauds your government’s decision to seek a long term solution for making materials available to people with print disabilities in alternate formats. Government has given CNIB more than $20 million since the year 2000 to create alternate format materials. The “book famine” experienced by Canadians […]

Ravi Kahlon Parliamentary Secretary for Sport & Multiculturalism November 17, 2017 Dear Mr. Kahlon, I am the President of the Canadian Federation of the Blind (www.cfb.ca), a membership organization of blind citizens that is committed to the integration of blind people in British Columbia society on the basis of equality. I am writing in response […]

April 13, 2017 Dear legislators and librarians interested in services to blind Canadians: Canada currently has two library services for blind people and others with print disabilities. The publicly owned system is called National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS). The privately owned system is the old CNIB library, now called Centre for Equitable Library […]