Bonita Zarrillo at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On March 24th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 24th, 2022 / 5:05 p.m.

NDP

Bonita Zarrillo NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Minister.

I am going to spend all of my time with you today on getting information for persons living with disabilities.

I'll start by just saying that with the rising cost of housing, the rising cost of living and the greater level of risk that will come to the disability community as changes in the mask mandates and other COVID protections are lifted, this becomes even more urgent. The ASAP that you spoke of a couple of times today really matters.

You mentioned that the legislative agenda was potentially a barrier to getting the Canada disability benefit onto the floor, and I'm wondering if you can tell the committee whether this bill has been pushed back since November 2021 and whether there are any remaining barriers to getting it to the floor.

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