OTTAWA – A parliamentary committee is launching an ************* into accessibility at Canadian airlines, with a focus on the country’s two largest carriers.

Following a motion put forward on Monday by NDP lawmaker Taylor Bachrach, the federal transport committee voted to undertake a study on the state of accessible transportation for Canadians living with disabilities as well as the regulatory regime surrounding it.

The committee cited recent news reports of air travellers “facing ************** and unacceptable treatment” on board, and invited the CEOs of ********** and WestJet to testify along with Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez, Auditor General Karen Hogan and other experts and industry players.

The motion further calls on the government to table a response to a committee report slated to be presented to the House of Commons.

Earlier this month, ********** CEO Michael Rousseau apologized for the *******’s accessibility shortfalls and announced new measures to improve the travel experience for hundreds of thousands of passengers living with a disability.

The move followed a number of reports of passenger mistreatment, including an ******** in August where a man with spastic cerebral palsy was forced to drag himself off of an ********** plane in ********* due to a lack of assistance.