I understand that perfectly well; you are including a lot of things. But you are talking about an extreme case. In other cases, people will have a really hard time financially. Take the example of a person who has a 15% disability and who goes through a rehabilitation program, after which he is not successful in finding a job. All that person will get is 75% of his salary. In that case, he does not even get a disability award. If he cannot find a new job, he will continue to receive just 75% of his salary.
From the experience you have gained after years of working with this Veterans Charter, do you not think that it would have been preferable to help people like that by topping up the 75% of gross salary a little, say? In that way, we could compensate them for taking a job at minimum wage.
Let me give you a specific example to make it clearer. Take the case of an army corporal who made $15 per hour and now drops to 75% of his gross salary, not his net salary. If he found a minimum wage job, you could offer to make up the difference to $15 per hour so that he would not lose anything. We would only be making up a small part of his salary. That gives the veteran an incentive to get back into the job market, much more than knowing that he will always get 75% of his gross salary, never more, never less, whether he goes back to work or not.
Ms. Pellerin, you work in rehabilitation; you should be in a position to answer the question.