Mr. Chair, I'll take this opportunity to express my disappointment, not in the government's decision to establish a Canadian benefit, because parliamentarians already voted for that in the House of Commons, but in a bill that is essentially a blank page that offers no guarantee whatsoever.
The proposed amendment is basically saying that there will be a very nice report tabled in the House of Commons and that the committee will discuss it again a year later. What will that change? Either the regulation will already be adopted by then, which is fine, or we'll get an update, but that won't change anything about the fact that this will be an unprecedented situation that serves as a precedent because it will be the first act, the first long-term benefit for persons with disabilities for which the decision wasn't made by Parliament.
All that does is make people feel good about themselves and make them look like they did a thorough job.