I promise to be brief. I don't like to take over the conversation.
In unison, in 1996-97, a document was developed by the federal government that articulated three building blocks for people with disabilities: education, employment, and disability-related supports.
Disability-related supports are individual and unique. I have a wheelchair I fall into at home when I'm tired. I have a walker that I use to walk around my pond every day. I have a cane that I use when I come to things like this. Those are my disability-related supports.
For an individual who is deaf, it may be using a TTY at work or it may be availing oneself of an interpreter. For a person with a developmental disability, it may be a support worker.
There has been significant work done on this at the national level. I think it was last year in January that we provided yet another document to the Office for Disability Issues and the Liberal minister, the predecessor in the department of social development. The amount of information that's available is significant.
I think the important thing to recognize is there somehow has to be a national framework so that whether it falls under allocation of moneys to the provinces or some other program initiative, it becomes individual.
For me, if there is any money transferred to the provinces, when people talk about strings, I talk about nooses, because for something like this, it's all too easy to spend it on something else.