Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll start by responding to my NDP colleague's political comments earlier by just pointing out that we are spending vastly more money than we've ever spent as a federal government, and we're achieving crisis-level results in this area, despite all of that spending. In the past, when we faced an economic crisis of this magnitude, the result down the road, in the mid-nineties to the early 2000s, was a 32% cut in programming and funding for health care, social services and education, and the lowest levels of international development spending in our history. I think it was about 0.21% of ODA at the time, because of the economic crisis a generation earlier.
We care about the sustainability of whatever programs we put in place.
Today, we're talking about a crisis. We're raising the alarm together and I think, as a Parliament, despite our political differences, we have agreed and voted unanimously that this is an area that we need to take action on. We've come together as a committee here because of that.
I want to direct my questions this round to Jennifer Rigg, and I want to talk about outcomes and action. I want to ask about a call to action from the Transforming Education Summit on disability and inclusive education.
Could you highlight some of the numbers to highlight what the situation is right now in that crisis situation? I believe it's 240 million children around the world living with a disability. What are the outcomes like for those children right now?