This issue is not going away. We're going to have to deal with this eventually, because Finland is doing it, Brazil has been doing it, Namibia has been doing it, other countries have been doing it. This is an important issue around the world because people are asking how we can be most productive with our tax dollars. Switzerland recently talked about it, and had a vote on it.
When I think and I talk to my constituents about this issue, it's important to them because housing is $700, $800, $900, $1,000 in Winnipeg. It's not Toronto, it's not Vancouver, but a single apartment in downtown Winnipeg is expensive. When you only get welfare because you have disabilities, you don't always fit the requirements and receive the income that you have.
I sometimes become afraid that in this place we become disconnected from the realities faced by many Canadians. We can tell them to work hard, to pull up their bootstraps and get on with it and do it, and that if they work hard, they'll succeed. But unfortunately in life, we all come with different capacities, and not all of us have the same mental capacities to become a Bay Street lawyer and be successful like my colleague Raj, whose family came from....