It sounds as though you feel it's appropriate that we work carefully in order to make sure that there is no disruption in this process, but that, once we figure out how to do this well, we should try to make sure that as many people as possible are able to access this program.
I want to turn to this question of the sharing of data and reciprocity. I think it's certainly important in the case of people living with disabilities. You mentioned that more than a million such people live below the poverty line in this country. There are huge numbers of forms that those people need to fill out and that their health care providers need to fill out in order for them to be able to access provincial benefits. Having a reciprocal acknowledgement, once a person has been deemed to have a disability, for example, by either the federal or the provincial government, has been a point of advocacy in the disability community for some time.
Do we have any functioning examples of reciprocal data sharing of this kind between the federal government and the provinces and territories? What are we doing that we could build on in order to learn how to do this well?
