I get it.
There are a couple of things. First of all, in terms of our employment strategy, historically governments have focused on supporting workers and organizations that support individuals with disabilities to find jobs. What we know is that in fact we need to support employers and increase awareness of the duty to accommodate and the business case for disability inclusion. We need to invest more in entrepreneurs with disabilities.
The employment strategy, as we are moving forward with it, is a much broader-based approach to ensuring not only that people can get jobs and have opportunities to apply for jobs but also that the conditions they are working within are more dignified and more flexible. There is some really exciting work.
The $20 million in the budget for Ready, Willing and Able is a really good example of a program that actually looks functionally at what an individual can do and then looks functionally at what an employer needs to have done and matches those two. It might take a little bit from three different job descriptions to create a really robust, meaningful and contributing role for an individual with a disability that plays to their strength. It gives the employer exactly what they need.
Yes, absolutely, that is top of mind for me, of course.