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Stephane Parisien got an apology from the Ontario government, but the disabled man who uses a wheelchair hopes it wasn’t just lip service.

Parisien, 41, went to the ServiceOntario centre in Orléans a couple of weeks ago to renew his driver’s licence and plates, and was mighty miffed that the entrance was not equipped with an automated door. Either with a push of a button or a motion detector, an automated door would have made the entrance accessible without having to depend on someone to hold it open for him.

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“It really shows you … the folks involved in building these … locations are not sitting in a wheelchair or disabled in one way or another,” wrote Parisien in an email to various politicians, bureaucrats and the media.

He says the answer he got from a clerk in the ServiceOntario outlet after he got inside — “well, it’s not the law” — only raised his blood pressure.

True, it’s not the law as the building that houses the ServiceOntario outlet, which moved there from its former location next door in 2012, was only renovated before the move, and, as the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing explains, accessibility standards generally apply “to newly constructed buildings or those undergoing extensive renovation.”