Looking at the client base of food banks in Manitoba, we need to see that benefit moved forward in a way that is acceptable for those who need it and that takes people above that market basket measure of poverty. The gap for a single person in Manitoba between EIA disability and the market basket measure is $945. That's the gap we're talking about.
Do not allow the clawback. I know a lot of people are concerned about the clawback, whether it's by private insurers or provincial governments. That is a critical issue. Forty per cent of people who use the food bank in Manitoba are people with disabilities. It's much the same all across the country. As I said, Mr. Blaikie, acquiring a disability in your lifetime or being born with one is a sentence to a lifetime of poverty. We're seeing that for hundreds of thousands of Canadians.
This is something we would urge the government to take action on in this budget.