One of the groups of people who are most marginalized, the groups that have the highest incidence of poverty--we have aboriginal Canadians, lone-parent families, but persons with disabilities do not do well in Canada compared with some other countries that are at equal or lower wealth levels than Canada. One of the ideas that's been discussed in the last few years--it was discussed by the Caledon Institute, and Campaign 2000 talked about it--is a basic income system for persons with disabilities.
Ben, you talked about a guaranteed annual income. Our colleagues in the Senate have done a report on poverty as well, and one of their recommendations is going to be to start off with a basic annual income for persons with disabilities, sort of based on a combination of OAS and GIS for seniors, to provide a basic annual income for the disabled. Would that be something that would make sense? It must be more difficult for people with disabilities in the north than in other parts of the country, when you look at temperature and road conditions and getting around and everything else. Would that be a good start?