Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is the third and last attempt to improve the preamble. Specifically, it says that Bill C-22, in the preamble, be amended by adding after line 8 on page 2 the following:
Whereas the Government of Canada recognizes that persons with disabilities must be given meaningful opportunities to collaborate in the development and design of regulations made under this Act;
What this would do is go further than the existing text, specifically naming that the opportunities must be meaningful and specifying that collaboration must be in the design of regulations. This follows and aligns with a previous amendment, PV-9, that puts this into the bill. This would better align the preamble with the amended bill.
Again, as I mentioned earlier, organizations like the March of Dimes and Disability Without Poverty and many others called for this level of engagement specifically in the regulations.
Thank you.