That's an inspiring story. We want to hear more stories about people who start from positions of extreme disadvantage but through their hard work and their own diligence are able to climb the ladder. We have to make sure though that we don't create a ladder that has missing steps in it. Right now in our tax and benefits system, there are missing steps.
For example, in the province of Alberta, if you are a disabled person trying to get into the workforce, and you increase your hours of work at minimum wage from 10 hours to 30 hours, you lose money. You make less money working 30 hours a week than you do working 10 hours a week. You have this person, who's desperately trying to get out of poverty and doing all of the right things, but being punished for it. That's a combination of federal-provincial tax and benefit penalties, and we need solutions. I'm hoping that we're going to have witnesses who can provide us with some solutions to that exact problem.
I wonder if you have any that you can offer.