Disabled people should not be legislated into poverty in every single province. That's what's happening. People can't afford to eat or pay rent.
There are also our health care issues. Why does it take up to two years to access a pain clinic in Ontario? Why are there so many wait-lists? You're making it impossible for us to choose to live, especially those of us who are aging into our disability. It's getting harder and harder, not because we can't do it ourselves, but because there are no resources available and not enough funding in our health care systems. We simply can't afford it.
As much as we're talking about the federal disability benefit, we also need to be talking about our health care systems and their failures. This committee has an obligation to look into that, because it's all connected. If you're going to allow people to kill themselves, look into why they are doing that, and look into our health care systems.