Yes. I guess from a point of view of parliamentary decorum I would say the elements would be the same. I can't opine on letter for letter, word for word, because I wouldn't want in any way to be out of line on this.
This is really framework legislation in the spirit of “nothing without us”, working, co-developing the benefit with the disability community. This creates a framework wherein we get the regulatory authority to work with provinces to ensure there are no clawbacks of this benefit, to ensure that the amount ultimately lifts people out of poverty. That's why we are funding Independent Living Canada to work with the disability community to recommend eligibility criteria.
Of course, as we all know, it's not a business the federal government has been in historically, so we are hard-pressed to find easy lists of people who could be eligible. We have the disability tax credit. We have people who get disability benefits through Veterans Affairs and CPP disability. But unlike, say, seniors, where we can identify everybody in this country who is over 65, we can't do that yet with disability, because of the lack of data. We really need to understand the enormous challenge of defining the eligibility criteria, and that work is already ongoing, but the legislation will give us the legal framework to basically bring the ball over the finish line, I would say.
That's not an analogy. I think I just missed it. Anyway, you know what I mean.