Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have to respectfully disagree with my honourable colleague. When people were presenting the idea of how this was going to evolve, it was because we know, just by the very nature of it, that there are going to be innovations and new ways in which we're increasingly removing barriers to participation for people living with all these different abilities, and we're going to find them. That was the whole point.
Without some kind of a timeline here, there's no impetus for this to actually move forward. Unless there is an amendment coming from my colleagues on the governing side further on, this is our chance right now. Ten years is extremely reasonable to reach certain objectives or mile markers, and that's what we need. For this bill to pass, to be tabled, we have to hit the ground running for certain markers to be hit by a certain timeline. Otherwise, we know what will happen—nothing. We'll just keep moving without a deadline. The deadline doesn't have to be a stop-dead, drop-dead deadline. This is a marker where you hit certain objectives and then you move forward from that.
I understand the conundrum about having realization, but if we use the word “realization” rather than “progressive realization” it still doesn't do the job for us that we need, which is something that is more defined in terms of where we're going to meet certain objectives in a certain period of time. This is a very reasonable period of time. A decade is very reasonable.