Thank you for the question.
Yes, I think there are multiple benefit programs that could be better coordinated with EI sickness benefits, from provincial and territorial programs to the program you spoke of, which is the Canada pension plan disability benefit.
One of the things that people with MS have is that, once they're on it, it's very hard to go in and out of the system. A disease like MS is very intermittent. Again, it's that on-and-off piece. Once a person is on a benefit, it's very difficult to move back and forth.
There have been suggestions and ideas around a partial disability benefit. Could that be a medium-term benefit that fills that gap between the EI sickness benefit and the long-term disability piece? I think that would be an idea.