Thank you, Madam Chair.
And thank you very much. Just briefly--I know Mr. Lobb has a quick question--I think each one of us around the table shares your compassion. We all have a story. I spent nine years as a City of Kelowna councillor and six years on a social planning committee. We dealt with the disability access committee. One of the most memorable times was when I met Mr. Rae. I introduced myself as being from Kelowna—Lake Country in the Okanagan, and I had an opportunity to work with a fellow who was with CNIB at the time. I put on the goggles and walked down the street to experience impaired vision. Doing that puts a whole different perspective on your life--understanding the limitations.
As you know, we have just embarked on this study, and as has been alluded to, there are several different studies. We do have some investments, through the labour market agreements or the persons with disabilities supplement, through the working income tax benefit. I wonder if you could quickly share with us whether you feel these investments are working. Have you had some success from some of your members? I know you've suggested some other ideas to expand on that. We're just trying to find out if that's a good base to work with or whether you go back to zero, because as you said, there are challenges with our Constitution. A lot of this is under provincial jurisdiction, and we'd have to change a lot in the Constitution, but we have to work with the framework we have. As far as working with our provinces goes, I know the minister has worked very closely with the provincial and territorial ministers, and we've had some successes, as you mentioned, with the UN convention and others, but there's a lot more to be done. Could you elaborate a little bit in the time we have?