Thank you very much, Chair.
With respect to the question Madam Zarrillo asked about paragraph 9(d) and the ability to garnish the Canada disability benefit for the purposes of the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act, she asked whether this had a greater impact on women and what the gender-based analysis of this clause was.
In regard to clause 9, as identified in the 2015-16 survey of maintenance enforcement programs conducted by Statistics Canada, in almost all families, which is approximately 96%, the recipient of the support in these instances is female. From a gender-lens perspective, allowing the Canada disability benefit to be garnished for the purposes of outstanding debts under family support orders would disproportionately benefit women—and their children—who may be the former partners of men with disabilities in receipt of the benefit.