Thank you, Mr. Coteau.
Thank you, Chair.
I want to start by acknowledging that I'm now the third member, from a third political party, who is raising the subject of the Canada disability benefit this afternoon. Really, I'm following Mr. Long and Ms. Zarrillo in amplifying the calls of Disability Without Poverty and so many others across the country who've been putting in the work on this for years and years, including on the principles referred to earlier. As the minister knows well, those principles are on the Disability Without Poverty website with respect to implementing the Canada disability benefit.
I'd like to go further yet in recognizing how important this is, as was referred to earlier in this conversation. It was referred to in question period yesterday and in my conversation with the parliamentary secretary the day before.
I understand that the minister is not able to share a timeline for “when”, so in light of that, I wonder, knowing, Minister Qualtrough, of your support for the Canada disability benefit, if you could speak about the specific steps that have been taken over the last few months to move closer to making progress in the legislative agenda, and if you could speak to the specific progress being made in order to fast-track the reintroduction of the Canada disability benefit.