I'm not so much leaning toward it, but just trying to impart the understanding of why it's so popular.
When you have programs where the only way you can get them is to have worked, it means that probably for a good part of your life you have been disability-free and then you've had a later-onset disability. I'm trying to point out that even with those programs—EI sickness, which Mike talked about, CPPD, workers' compensation, veterans programs, workplace programs and the like—if you're a person with episodic disabilities, and that's what we're talking about here today, you probably spend a good period of time off work, more than the average person would, due to sickness.
These programs are mostly contributory. When you have to contribute to them, there are two ways you get to the maximum benefit. One is that you work a considerable number of your work years, and you also contribute at the maximum amount throughout that period. What that means, therefore, for people with episodic disabilities, is that when they actually come to benefit from these programs, they haven't paid enough into EI. They haven't paid enough into CPP. They haven't paid enough into a workplace program to get any type of adequate benefit from that.
The case I would make is that once we recognize episodic disabilities, we have to think up new ways to make the benefits adequate.