Thank you for that.
To answer your question, the problem with campaigns is simply that when you look at better educating people, whether under section 18 as it currently is until the bill is passed or under the revised version thereafter, often politicians make decisions, and I believe you need to leave it up to the electorate to have that campaign move forward.
I can tell you right now that the question then lies ahead, whom do people contact? How do people know about something? You're looking at all kinds of broader disability, whether it be linked with CNIB or whether it be intellectual disability, or literacy. You're not going to reach the broader groups in the way you can now.
I can say that I am part of an organization that is notified, but there are a hundred that are not that deal with a broader disability than we do. It goes back and forth. I believe that the Chief Electoral Officer should have the power to really ensure that information is followed.
Why is it being changed? When changes happen, that concerns me more, because with some of the changes that are implanted, we don't know until the act comes into force whether they're going to have a damaging impact or whether they're going to have a changing impact. We don't know. That can be a matter of great concern.
So I just caution the committee that when you're looking at this, talk to people with disabilities from coast to coast, just as you are doing today. Talk to people about what their experience has been previously and what it could potentially be if this section were passed into law.
That would be my comment. But you're looking at what disabilities there are. Again, homelessness and invisible disabilities are being ignored. We must carry those forward as well.