Thank you for your question.
With regard to the Accessible Canada Act, DeafBlind Ontario Services was quite proud to be able to work with a number of different disability groups across Canada to provide input when that legislation was being put together. We were very firm about the fact that just because it may seem like there's a small number of Canadians who are deaf-blind, certainly that number increases, as we know and as I mentioned, as the population ages. As people become seniors, as a natural part of aging, they tend to lose their hearing or vision, and sometimes both, so the idea that Statistics Canada does not capture numbers in their surveys every four years of people who are deaf-blind is a bit of a limit. They capture numbers of people who have vision loss. They capture numbers of people who have hearing loss. Not capturing that combined disability—again, as I mentioned at the top of my comments, I want to state clearly that deaf-blindness is a distinct disability—is really leaving out this part of the population. It's leaving them out in the sense that they're not included.
I mean, even in the legislation there are stipulations that say you should have interpreters, but they don't say you should have intervenor services. Intervenor services are different from interpreters. As I mentioned, it's about context. The idea that you would leave out this part of your population is a problem.