I don't know if there is anybody more frustrated than me at our inability to help more Canadians with disabilities.
Quite frankly, we are very excited to have helped 1.6 million Canadians, and we hope to help many more by extending the eligibility period for the DTC, the disability tax credit, until the end of December.
We also know that the rate of disability in this country is significantly higher. I have been very honest with Canadians that up until this point, we haven't had at our disposal as a federal government a way to deliver directly to everyone with a disability, and we are planning to make sure this never happens again by modernizing, updating and making more inclusive our eligibility criteria. Quite frankly, disability policy has been largely driven historically by tax policy. We need to change that, and our citizens deserve it.
I don't know, Benoît or Graham, if you have any specific numbers on how many people it is. Through the DTC, the VAC programming and through CPP disability, I believe our estimates are 1.8 million, but please correct me if I have that wrong.