Thank you for the question, and thanks for having me.
As I said in my remarks, no one should live in poverty. Right now, we have working-age Canadians living with disabilities who are twice as likely to live in poverty than those without disabilities. Twenty-two per cent of Canadians with disabilities who are of working age live under the poverty line. That's one in five. It's shocking.
Poverty rates go down by half when persons with disabilities reach age 65, and you know why; it's because they now have access to the GIS. It's a big gap between the CCB disability, which ends when an individual becomes an adult, and 65, when someone is able to access the GIS. This has the potential to lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty.
We are committed to looking at introducing this as soon as we possibly can. I'm grateful for the support from members of all parties who have indicated that they want this benefit to move forward. Forty-five senators wrote us a letter saying that they want to fast-track it. It's very exciting and I look forward to tabling it as soon as we can, given the legislative schedule.