Mr. Speaker, the consistent support from the member for Toronto—Danforth on this issue is greatly appreciated and I say that not meaning by the NDP caucus, but by the number of Canadians and their families that are being discriminated against in exactly the way the member has described.
This morning the parliamentary secretary stood up and with no apology, no shame and no embarrassment said that he did not have a clue how many of the 106,000 people who received that letter were disqualified. This leads me to believe that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance and certainly the Minister of Finance who has the opportunity to do something about this do not really understand the circumstances of the people living with disabilities for whom it is a severe punishment to have been disqualified.
Could the member for Toronto—Danforth expand upon that? It is clear that some of his colleagues understand why it is necessary for us to take a united stand here, but it is also clear that some of his colleagues do not. I wonder if he might elaborate on that.