Thank you, Ms. Jhamb.
Of course, when it comes to the Canada disability benefit, what we have seen is that a piece of legislation got passed, but the regulations have been very slow and we're very unclear on the outcome of that regulatory process. The minister has now said that the benefit might not be rolled out until June 2025. There's all of this slowdown while Canadians with disabilities continue to live in legislated poverty.
We know that this Parliament can move with urgency when it sees a crisis. There is clearly a crisis here for folks in my community and across the country who continue to live in poverty, and there is a very clear intervention that could make progress to reduce that. Ideally, it could have gone further if we would have been able to expand the legislation to include people over the age of 65. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
Is there anything you'd like to add, Ms. Borden or Ms. Jhamb, in terms of what you want to see from MPs in the lead-up to budget 2024 when it comes to addressing this inadequate income issue that is really the bigger overlying issue in this study the committee is in the midst of?
In looking at the chair, I think I have a minute or so left.