I have absolutely no difficulty supporting this study and getting the work done and organizing it ahead of time so we are as efficient as possible.
I do, though, raise an issue that I've raised before at this table, and that's the challenge that's in front of us to deal with issues, if for no other reason than that it's attached to our name—people living with disabilities. As I travel back and forth across the country, more and more people living with disabilities are facing growing challenges. It's not getting better.
I moved a motion here a couple of years ago, that a subcommittee of this committee be set up to study the issues all of us have, that we could bring to the table, around how people living with disabilities participate in Canadian society. We've never been able to get to that. We say we'll do it after this. How long are we going to put off dealing with this?
We have a couple of ways of doing it. One is that we could say right now, once we've finished the adoption piece, let's move aggressively to look at an agenda that speaks to challenges of people living with disabilities, or we deal with the motion that I tabled a couple of years ago to set up a subcommittee that could work in parallel and report back. We've done these subcommittees before.
As I said before, when Madame Folco was the chair of the committee, we had a subcommittee to deal with people with disabilities, and there was a report brought back. At that time it was to look at issues around the parliamentary precinct. It was tabled, and some actions were taken. Even that piece I think needs to be revisited.
This is a group of people who have tremendous capability and potential to participate in our communities and our society, to contribute to the economy, but for various reasons, some of them befuddling, we don't move on this. If this committee could make a report, if we could get down to looking at some of those, I think it would be very beneficial and helpful.
So I make a passionate plea today to all of us to somehow find a way to get to this agenda item, because it is part of our mandate. It's the name of our committee.