Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I would like to focus first on the financial concerns of caregivers. As you said, these are non-refundable tax credits in most cases. They are income-dependent and reliant. Moving away from that reliance so it's far more across the board and supportive, that's what I hear you pushing for.
This may be on the policy side, but a lot of what the NDP is pushing for is around universal programs, ensuring that long-term care is affordable and housing is affordable. The idea of universal health care, universal pharmacare and universal dental care would ensure that, across the board, everyone is paying together so that all those costs are already covered. Those out-of-pocket costs that these seniors but also caregivers are incurring would already be covered. They wouldn't have to worry about that.
Have either of you heard from your membership, from the people you advocate for, about potentially those longer-term universal supports that would offset the costs they incur?