As I've already said, I think that the law discriminates when it acts to refuse somebody with a disability from being eligible to immigrate to Canada. I think there's a serious problem with discretionary waivers or exceptions to overcome that problem. Also, Mr. Battista made reference to the Global News piece about where the numbers come from, and I just wanted to add one quick thing to that.
The last time Mr. MacKinnon testified before you, when he talked about how the Global piece was wrong because they were taking into account too many things, and that, in his words, “we consider only a narrow basket of social services”. He said they don't consider social assistance and don't consider social housing. That's not entirely the case. We have seen cases where they have looked at housing and they've looked at social assistance.
I think the takeaway from that is that the way they came up with those numbers is arbitrary and that perhaps Mr. MacKinnon himself doesn't entirely know all the decisions that are being made by officials underneath him because he didn't seem to be aware of that. I think that arbitrariness is simply unacceptable.