There were lots of questions in there.
The first is, yes, we've been consulted. I presented to HUMA earlier this week, and we have been involved, obviously, in the consultations around the Canada disability benefit and the disability inclusion action plan. We have been very heavily involved in all of those discussions.
Certainly these are good things to be doing and we're very supportive of them. Anything this committee can do to support those things, I think is really good.
The only thing I would say is that a Canada disability benefit will certainly support economic security if it's done well and is adequate in all of those things. Lots of Canadians with disabilities—73% of the people I serve who live outside the family home—are living in poverty.
However, it's not a substitute for keeping our MAID legislation at end of life, so I don't want to pit one off against the other and say, “Oh well, you're going to make the MAID regime okay in track two if you go ahead and do these things.” You will certainly make the lives of people with disabilities better by doing those things, and we will continue to fight for those things, but the issue still remains that the lack of supports and services, the lack of housing options, the institutionalization, and all the other factors that people face will still weigh heavily in the whole conversation we're having today. The only “safeguard” we have is that people are supposed to be told what's available to them. I can guarantee you that when people are showing up and asking about MAID, they know what is “available”, but they have never been able to get it; or it isn't available, or they have been on a wait-list for 10 years, etc.