General Country Information
Capital: Ottawa
Population: 33,390,141 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy/Parliamentary Democracy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 18.276 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 16.6 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 3.934 million (2006)
Internet users: 21.9 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.67
World Rank 2005/2006: 17
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
Accessible Transportation Directorate of the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
cta.comment@cta-otc.gc.ca
Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALA)
info@ala.ca
Brain Injury Association of Canada (BIAC)
http://www.biac-aclc.ca/Contact
Canadian Abilities Foundation (CAF)
ask@enablelink.org
Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres (CAILC)
cailc@magma.ca
Canadian Association of the Deaf (CAD)
info@cad.ca
Canadian Center on Disability Studies (CCDS)
ccds@disabilitystudies.ca
Canadian Hearing Society (CHS)
info@chs.ca
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
national@cmha.ca
Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
cnib@icomm.ca
Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
ccd@pcs.mb.ca
Deaf Children's Society of British Columbia
deafbc@deafchildren.bc.ca
Disability Information Services of Canada (DISC)
mundisc@mun.ca
Disabled Women's Network Canada's (DAWN)
kathy@dawncanada.net
Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario (LDAO)
webmaster@ldao.on.ca
Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA)
obia@obia.on.ca
Social Development Canada
no contact information currently available