Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses. It's difficult to do what you're trying to do today, which is to present compelling and complicated issues in such a short amount of time. The committee shares the impossible task of trying to sum up all of the social services and impacts, and somehow do that in a couple of meetings, and then present our recommendations to the federal government as it prepares this budget.
The current context is that we've moved from a number of years of significant deficit to a likely surplus, which I imagine has somewhat affected some of your presentations here today.
I want to first of all, on a personal level, say thank you to Mr. Ireland and Mr. Mann for your compelling testimony and for the work you do. “Work” is not the appropriate word. I am searching for another one—the service, the commitment....
Mr. Ireland, I'll start with the positive. There's a program right now, the caregiver amount program, that was set up by the government, and it was at about $110 million last year. What benefit—if you receive any benefit from this tax measure—does your family receive under that program?