Those are three core issues we hear about all the time, so we're very aware that people would like improvements in each one of those.
We don't call it the viability test, just for the record. Everybody else does, but we don't, officially.
We took these specific issues to FPT ministers on more than one occasion in the past two or two-and-a-half years. In each instance, the collective of ministers said, no, we don't choose to go down this path. Because we're a shared jurisdiction--these programs are all federally and provincially shared--the federal minister can't unilaterally change these programs.
So we bring proposals, and generally speaking, the issue is one of fairness: who's going to win in this and who's going to lose--because some would lose and some wouldn't--and what's it going to cost?
On those occasions where we have proposed it, ministers have said, collectively, no.