Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm looking over an article from the Canadian Paraplegic Association's magazine, so you've probably read this one--it's a good one. I ask this because we had to inquire on this in respect to our own son. It is in regard to the RDSP program, or the registered disability savings plan, which a lot of people don't seem to know too much about. We kind of scrambled to get information at the early part of the year too.
I have a quick question in respect to that, because the intent of the program, as I understand it from our federal government's announcement, is to help people with disabilities secure their financial and social well-being by creating a mechanism that leverages federal contributions, encourages families and friends to contribute, and helps those who may not have anyone to contribute to their plan to save for the future. It has leveraging of 300% in terms of matching grants, 200% at another level, so it's a pretty high-matching contribution.
I don't know if people at the table have delved into that, or whether you know the program enough to recommend how it could be improved or done differently. Are there some upsides, downsides, strengths, weaknesses to the program that you could advise us of?
Maybe we could start with Bruce.