Then why bother to take the time and effort to measure something that is statistically insignificant when it really goes to a basic human rights need? Why are we even engaging in that analysis at all? Why are we forcing the medical officers to make this initial determination? You're proposing that we maintain the system through which we measure and quantify and further—I wouldn't say insult, but maybe—denigrate people with disabilities by quantifying their future medical costs within Canada. Then we're placing a burden on the government to both evaluate that and then to hand over money.
Doesn't that in itself discriminate and marginalize the very people we are trying to help through this debate?