The key here is that the federal government is now on the edge or at the point of having a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ensure that people with disabilities no longer live in poverty. In order to do that, in order to get it right, they have to take measures with the provinces, importantly, and come to arrangements with the provinces, but also with the federal government's own role, to ensure, on the right to an adequate income—as set out in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and as set out in the CRPD, which is mentioned in the bill—that those human rights obligations finally get implemented and respected. Now is the time to do that.
If the bill is not amended coming out of this committee, or subsequently, to ensure adequacy, then whether or not adequacy ever gets respected in the regulations is entirely unpredictable and, from my experience of 35 years, very unlikely. If Canada wants to ensure that it's respecting its obligation to ensure people with disabilities have the right to an adequate income and to enjoy that right, then it should put it in the bill. The minister said repeatedly that the purpose of the bill was to lift people with disabilities out of poverty. That should be in the bill.