Human Resources committee  To echo and emphasize, in my remarks I think I mentioned taking a life course approach. Again, we are here five years from the time that Elisse and I first came to HUMA and spoke about episodic disabilities, and no one knew what we were talking about; this entire session is about

Human Resources committee  I want to add, just echoing in terms of the stigma of labelling disability, that people self-navigate, and then that cascades their conditions even further. They're already trying to navigate living with these conditions, and then they have to navigate self-stigma, as well as the

Human Resources committee  —who will add to our GDP and who will add income. As for all of the people living with disabilities generally, the statistics that have just come out demonstrate how many people who want to work are not working, people who would actually contribute to pensions, contribute to EI a

Human Resources committee  If I could add to that, Adele, I don't know if you recall that maybe three or four years ago the Ontario government actually had a report prepared as well, on short- to medium-term and episodic disabilities, specifically in the workplace.

Human Resources committee  What we envisioned was describing it as units, so rather than having 15 weeks for the year, you have 175 units, let's say, hypothetically, whatever that may look like. Then when you do have an episode or you don't have an episode, you still know that you have this number of units

Human Resources committee  That's a very long conversation, so I'll send that to you in the full submission.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I think it is recommendation two, of the three long-term recommendations that I made. Well, maybe it could be recommendation three. Anyway, the individualized funding model, in terms of that one-door approach.... I think Newfoundland has transitioned to an individualized fundin

Human Resources committee  I think it definitely would, but I also want to emphasize that apart from the clawback in terms of income, many people are also concerned about the loss of drug benefits.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. The Office for Disability Issues within the federal government has actually been aware of episodic disabilities for a very long time. However, at the federal government level, I think the siloed approach from ministry to ministry to ministry in terms of training and a

Human Resources committee  I'm understanding everything you're saying in French, and because I am so anxious to respond quickly, I am going to respond in English. When we look at the indicators of the social determinants of health for indigenous communities in Canada, on every single indicator, whether it

Human Resources committee  I actually think it again goes back to the definitions and to misunderstanding. The two things that come to my mind automatically are not understanding episodic disabilities and the lack of a consistent definition.

Human Resources committee  I'm trying to remember. In the disability and work conference I recently attended, a representative shared that. Maureen, do you remember?

Human Resources committee  No? Okay. A representative shared information with respect to this particular change in their funding model, if I'm not mistaken, and that model allows people to work when they can and therefore not work when there are unpredictable flare-ups. With respect to increasing the EI