Thank you, Chair, and thank you all. Those were very good presentations.
The chair explained a little bit about our committee. We've been working on this for about a year and a half now, going back before the last election. We travelled earlier this year to eastern Canada. We're out here this week.
Normally, there'd be more members, but there was a crisis, which happens about six times a week in Ottawa, that a number of members had to be called back for. They're going to be joining us, we hope, in Yellowknife tomorrow. We were in Vancouver yesterday. This is our week to continue to gather information from people who are working on the ground, as you people are. We'll hopefully add to that people who have the experience of living in poverty, and then we'll try to produce a report that makes some sense.
I'm particularly interested in the situation here for persons with disabilities. A number of you mentioned that. I think all of you referred to that situation. I'm looking at statistics we have that indicate that the average annual welfare income of a person with a disability in the Yukon is $15,000. In Winnipeg it's $9,000. In Edmonton I think it's even less than that. It's not a lot of money. Is there a stronger welfare rate for persons with disabilities here, do you think, than there is in other places? It's relative.