As I said earlier, this puts a stake in the ground. This establishes a federal benefit in law.
While recognizing—again, in the preamble—the important role that PTs play in the delivery of social supports and services for people with a disability, it says very clearly to the provinces, as we have been saying all along, that this is happening and we need to get to a point at which we are all comfortable with how this is going to interact with their systems.
That's opposed to an approach whereby we theoretically sit at a table and say that this could happen; this might happen and, if it happens, can we agree to how it might work? That would give us nothing to lean on to show to the provinces the seriousness and the immediacy of the need for figuring this all out.