Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility
IDEA Plan 2025
The Municipality of the County of Victoria wants to be a welcoming, safe, and accessible place for everyone. To help make this happen, we have created an IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) Plan. This plan identifies barriers and finds ways to remove them, it is guided by the IDEA Committee. Victoria County Council approved the 2025 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Plan on March 31st, 2025.
Help Shape an Inclusive Future for Victoria County
The Municipality of the County of Victoria is committed to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA). We’ve formed a committee to help guide our staff and council—and we need your input!
By sharing your experiences and insights on our IDEA Engagement Page, you’re feedback will help make Victoria County a more welcoming and inclusive place to live and work. On the IDEA engagement page you can read project updates, share ideas, identify locations in the county that have good accessibility features, take our survey and say hello in our guestbook. We look forward to hearing from you!
The IDEA survey intends to gather feedback from people who live and/or work in Victoria County. This feedback will be shared with the IDEA Committee to help guide the municipality’s IDEA plan implementation and ongoing work.
Join our IDEA Committee! Call for Members
The Municipality of the County of Victoria wants to be a welcoming, safe, and accessible place for everyone. To help make this happen, we are creating an IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) Plan. We are looking for members with lived experience to guide the plan. Interested? Click on Read More and to find out more… READ MORE
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Disability in Nova Scotia
According to Statistics Canada, 30 per cent of Nova Scotians aged 15 years and older identify as having at least one disability. That is nearly 230,000 Nova Scotians. This is the largest percentage of any Canadian province. Nova Scotia also has among the highest percentage of adults older than 65 – currently 20 per cent, or 1 in 5. This percentage will increase to about 25 per cent of the population, or 1 in 4, by 2030.
Because older adults are more likely to have disabilities than younger people, the number of Nova Scotians with disabilities will rise as our population ages. Learn more at novascotia.ca/accessibility/stats-on-disability-in-Nova-Scotia.pdf
Background
In 2017, Nova Scotia became the third province in Canada to pass accessibility legislation, committing to a more equitable and accessible province. The Accessibility Act recognizes accessibility as a human right and sets a goal to make Nova Scotia an accessible province by 2030. The goal of the act is to prevent and remove barriers that restrict people with disabilities from fully participating in society. It enables the government to develop standards for accessibility, and outlines responsibilities for some public sector bodies, including municipalities.
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