Thank you so much for the question.
It's an area that has been of particular importance to the commission. We've done some work on the intersection between housing and disability. We recently launched—we'll have more of the data coming out on December 3—a framework for monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities in housing. We're specifically trying to look at what their experiences are.
Certainly, people being institutionalized is something that's been coming up. People are being put into places—as you mentioned, perhaps it's a hospital or a seniors home—that are providing services they need, but it is not actually the solution in the community that is best for their needs. The commission's position, as it relates to the optional protocol, is that, in some instances, people are ending up in facilities where there is no oversight mechanism. Unfortunately, when people have to make this difficult decision or are forced into some of these institutions, there are abuses. Those abuses are not always known at the time. What we really need is a preventative mechanism so we have a line of sight to ensure that, as a whole and across the country, we have our sight on that.
I'd be happy to share more with your office about our work on monitoring the right of housing for people with disabilities. Certainly, institutionalization is a big piece of it, but it goes beyond that. We're seeing very concerning intersections in terms of inadequate housing for people with disabilities across the country.