The minister talked about a cost-benefit analysis. In fact, the benefit-analysis side is actually missing with respect to this work.
The witnesses all came forward to talk about the contributions of their family unit, but as well, they talked about the person who has been identified as having a different ability in terms of their contributions. Some of it cannot be quantified in a dollars-and-cents way per se, but some could be. Even then, the excessive demand provision applies to them, but there's no consideration as to the benefits with respect to that. The process in terms of this approach is fundamentally flawed with respect to this. I would ask the minister to take a clear look at this, because the approach that has been undertaken does not take in an evaluation of the benefits side.
The other issue that I would bring to the minister's attention is that in the application of the process, the government officials stated that housing, for example, is not considered as a cost in determining whether a person who contributes is part of the excessive demand.... I have a letter here from a lawyer who brought this up in an actual case. The letter from the officials lists “supportive housing” as an issue to be considered as excessive demand, and that was one of the reasons they were being rejected. The application of the law is flawed.
I will ask the minister this question: would you agree that in terms of how the government came up with the numbers to determine what is deemed to be excessive demand, the analysis is flawed, and that the application of that policy is also flawed?