This is a question that doesn't have an easy answer, because the complexities of the different income security programs, provincial and federal, and how they don't interrelate is probably one of the areas that needs to be investigated.
Let's look at the model. You have CPPD. You have income support in a provincial venue. You have the EI system. Then you have Workers' Compensation. And then you have private insurance. I wish I could tell you exactly how they interrelate, but I can't. I can tell you that they don't interrelate well.
The easiest example is my own. When I acquired my disability, my private insurance--I advise you all to go home and read your private insurance to see what it provides--provided me with 24-hour care, which I required for two months. To avail myself of anything from the province, which wanted to put me into an institution for the rest of my life, they told me I had to be poor. So I had to go on income support.
When I went on income support, I applied to the provincial Opening Doors program, or, as I call it, the Closed Doors program, for people with disabilities and employment. It offered me, with my degree and straight-A scholarship background, a job ticking off the answers to the questions that 16-year-olds are asked when they come in to see if they're going to get their licences. If I had a workplace injury, and somehow Workers' Compensation had to address me, they probably wouldn't even have let me in the door.
So until all those systems are able to interrelate.... If I am on income support and I need a drug card because I have a mental health issue--and there are no miracles, it doesn't go away--then at the end of six months, I won't have a drug card, according to our province. Then I would go on EI, but because I'm on EI, I can't go back on income support and get my drug card. I think you can see what I'm doing. That's my answer.