Thank you.
I have a background in my own province of being with a Crown corporation that provided residential and day services to persons with disabilities. One of the things we came to recognize was that, while we all know the stress of trying to ensure access to health care, many of the individuals with quite severe disabilities do not have any kind of financial planning arrangement for basic issues like tax filing. Part of what I've done in the last while is work with some of those organizations to try to get more recommendations out about getting this done.
Yes, I think the automatic filing is a great idea, but you do have to worry about whether or not the systems that are put in place meet the needs of individuals who struggle to provide legal consent. If you have to involve the public guardian and trustee in a province, for example, it can become much more complicated and time-consuming, but any of those kinds of measures I absolutely applaud.
I want to say this again, because I sound like I'm critical that the CDCP won't meet the needs: I absolutely applaud the CDCP. It will be necessary and will meet the needs of a huge number of people, especially those who are lower-income people, but we may need to make those kinds of changes to ensure people with disabilities are part of our recognized taxpayer system and can take the benefits they need that are given.