Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is the first of several amendments being proposed by several parties with respect to how regulations will be made. This first one would replace paragraph 11(d), which currently says:
11 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations
(d) respecting the manner in which a benefit is to be indexed to inflation;
The amendment would replace that text with this:
(d) requiring a benefit to be indexed to inflation and respecting the manner in which it is to be indexed;
We read many briefs on this and heard from many members of the disability community who called for indexing to inflation to be more clearly articulated in how regulations would be made. Certainly as an MP from Ontario, where ODSP is not indexed to inflation, I recognize that there are members of my community who have not seen increases to their existing disability supports for some time. The intention of this amendment is to address that in the Canada disability benefit.