There's always a potential for charter issues.
In B.C. many years ago—Mr. Hogg will remember this—we had a court case around the right to have interpreters in hospitals. That became a charter case. That perhaps has not been as well implemented as it ought to have been, but different groups have tended it.... This has been part of the problem. Different groups, by impairments and different conditions, are going to court and litigating the rights for their particular group with their particular condition. That's very a fragmented, piecemeal, slow, tough journey to advance the rights of all Canadians who have some limitations and face barriers.
The potential of this bill, if it's designed right, is to make this a much more generic and universal approach, so that groups, families, parents and disability groups such as People First don't have to invest the very limited dollars they have on very expensive court cases to advance the rights across groups. That's what I see as troubling right now. It's the fragmentation around disability groups. There's a very understandable frustration by a lot of parents, whether it's around autism or diabetes; everyone wants a national strategy for their group and their condition. With respect, that's not the way to go.