Okay, I'll get started. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My questions are about the urgency of this benefit and ensuring that the disability community is actively heard from throughout, in particular because there is limited or no support in Parliament for an emergency disability benefit.
Mr. Conrad, I appreciate that you mentioned urgency in some of your remarks earlier. You also mentioned a number of round tables that have been held since June 2021, which is good to hear, but what's also true is that the language of the bill is exactly the same as what we had in June 2021.
I'd like to understand better what you heard at those round tables. Did you not hear anything that merited inclusion? Why is it that, despite all that consultation, the bill is exactly the same?