Finance committee  About 22% of people who go to community food centres are on disability support. It's quite a difficult credit to get. Sometimes you have to do your taxes and then you get a tax credit. A lot more is involved in this. Anything the federal government can do to simplify that would

Finance committee  I think, as Nick mentioned, people living on disability supports in Ontario.... If you're a single person, you're making about $1,100 a month, which is clearly not enough to cover the cost of living, let alone the increased costs that often come with living in disability. Making

Finance committee  For the disability tax credit, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has estimated that it would be about $370 million a year in order to make that refundable for the people who are currently receiving it, which I believe is about 1.2 million Canadians. However, if it were

Finance committee  Sure. Thank you, Mr. Easter. I would just say that when we're thinking about the people who are suffering the most from food insecurity and poverty and when we go forward after this crisis, we need to focus on single adults, because 43% of people who are food insecure are unatt