Thank you.
It's a very good question. The simple answer is that the same things we're talking about extend through the broader community. I'll touch on my colleagues from the education, from the cancer, and from mental health sectors. The important thing to remember, whether you're talking about those with a developmental disability like Down syndrome, or other disabilities like cerebral palsy or autism is that along with their disabilities, they have mental health issues, health issues, cancer and education issues. They're the vulnerable of the most vulnerable. This cuts across all of the populations, which underscores one of our key recommendations.
We understand in a priority crisis management, putting-out-a-fire situation, why you need to focus your efforts on people who are literally dying. But in taking the opportunity to think further forward, we need to approach the recommendations from the perspective of: here's an opportunity to make sure we're taking care of the most vulnerable.
Persons with disabilities, as a larger group, are not an insignificant part of our population. We need to start emphasizing the need to take care of them, whether it's federally, provincially or locally. Down syndrome has a unique set of comorbidities that ramp up the vulnerabilities in health. But in in everything we're talking about with Down syndrome, we share a lot of the risks and vulnerabilities across the entire development disability perspective.