I'm sorry, Minister. I'm going to have to cut you off on that, because the disability tax credit is an institutionalized credit that requires someone to go to a medical professional to have somebody tell them whether or not they have a disability. It's not in the labour code to do that. If someone is in employment, they can self-identify that they have a disability, whether it's physical or mental.
What this government is legislating and imposing is that they have to go through an institutional process to get access to the Canada disability benefit. I'm not talking about whether they have income or not; I'm saying that the disability tax credit is not freely accessible by everyone. free access for everyone.
Why won't this government just go ahead and add some sort of an addition to the T5007 or to another mechanism so that we can understand that a person with a disability has identified that they have a disability and that they could potentially be entitled to the disability benefit? Why can't the government do that?