Before we look at something like a national guaranteed annual income or basic income in our own lifetimes—and in your own terms as MPs—I think we need to look at things like the disability tax credit.
The idea that we do not have right now a clause under the legislation that exempts people from re-examination for permanent disabilities should be low-hanging fruit. CRA should work with medical practitioners and health associations to develop specific criteria for people who have lifelong conditions, and then figure out a way to embed that in the administrative decision processes of the CRA so people are not put through a humiliating and frustrating experience.
That should be at Veterans Affairs, at the CRA, and it should be elsewhere as well.