Mr. Speaker, Bill C-33, among other things, implements some changes to taxation vis-à-vis the care of people who are disabled.
One of the huge areas of inadequacy in our tax system and in our budgets is the fact that there are many families who have disabled or aged parents living with them and yet cannot properly deduct from their taxable income the additional costs they incur in order to care for these people. Basically they are taking them out of the health care system and looking after them themselves but get beans for it from the Liberal government.
I wonder whether we can ever expect to see some recognition of families who take care of disabled people or aged parents in their own homes, that they would be able to, say for example, apply the basic exemption of those individuals to their own, and an additional exemption to represent and to reflect the actual costs that they incur in looking after these people.