Carla Qualtrough at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

That is something that was purposely put in there to reflect the gap in support between the CCB, to which there is a disability supplement that ends at age 18 or 19—I apologize, I can never remember—and the OAS and GIS, which start at 65.

Again, we chose the term “working-age” Canadians because that seemed to reflect that gap.