I see, though, that this is going exactly in the direction that I think we need to avoid on this committee; that is, now we're talking about it in another meeting.
A big part of the reason I wanted to be on this committee in the first place was that this is an area of personal interest for me. I can tell you that I could not possibly do my job properly.... I'm on the public accounts committee and I'm on this committee already. I could not take that on and do my job properly--the job I'm elected to do, the same job you're all elected to do.
It's clear that this is really a very important issue for all of us on this committee. It's very clear just from the discussion here. That being the case, I'm sure disability issues will have their rightful prominence in the employabilities report that we're about to do. It was a big part of what we heard from the witnesses. These are important issues, and it's a big part of the issues that many of the groups are dealing with. It's not all of the things they want to deal with, but it's a big part of the agenda for these groups that represent people with disabilities, as poverty will be.
I want to stress again that I think it's a tremendously important issue, as are the other two studies we're undertaking. Again, I think we just need to make sure we're doing things properly in this committee if we're actually going to get anything done.