House Hansard - 98

44th Parl. 1st Sess.

September 20, 2022 10:00AM

Mr. Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre, GP)

Sep/20/22 11:29:19 a.m.
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Re: Bill C-22

Madam Speaker, I thank the minister for her efforts to ensure Bill C-22 is the first bill debated in this fall session. She said earlier that no person with a disability should live in poverty. Everyone in this chamber would agree with that. However, we also know that this bill has no specificity about the amount of the benefit, who will be eligible for it and what will be done to prevent clawbacks. I wonder if the minister could share with us what she will do to ensure no person with a disability, regardless of their age, is living in poverty in this country.

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Ms. Laurel Collins (Victoria, NDP)

Sep/20/22 12:50:16 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-22

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for her advocacy for persons with disabilities. Canada has an obligation to uphold the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and to ensure dignity and equality for all people. The government has been failing, and after seven years of dragging its feet, tabling a bill without the details of who is eligible, when the benefit is going to come forward and how much the benefit will be is extremely disappointing for the people in my riding who are struggling right now. I am curious if the member has more comments about the need for the government to speed up to ensure that all people with disabilities are included and that the level of benefit will actually meet the needs of the people who are struggling.

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Ms. Marilyn Gladu (Sarnia—Lambton, CPC)

Sep/20/22 3:36:26 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-22

Madam Speaker, certainly, everyone will support the need for a disability benefit. I just want to be sure I understand the situation. This bill has been introduced, but we do not know who would be eligible to collect it, how much it would be and when it would be implemented. Is that accurate?

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Mr. Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, NDP)

Sep/20/22 4:33:55 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-22

Madam Speaker, more than 5.3 million Canadians live with some form of disability and over one million Canadians who live with disability live in deep poverty, yet the Liberal government wasted a year of this Parliament before retabling this empty shell of a Canadian disability benefit act that excludes far too many details. Who will be eligible for this benefit? How much will this benefit be? When will persons with disabilities start to finally see this benefit?

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Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)

Sep/20/22 5:15:17 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-22

Madam Speaker, in the paragraph the member was reading that said persons with disabilities represent about one in five Canadians, there was a section he read that was discussing the potential benefits and who might be getting this. Is he implying that the government believes that up to one in five Canadians would therefore be eligible for this benefit? Is that the government's goal? It is not in the legislation, so all we have to go on is just making assumptions based on the 21 regulations. I am putting it to the member: Are one in five Canadians going to get this benefit?

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Mr. Ryan Turnbull

Sep/20/22 5:15:52 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-22

Madam Speaker, I do not think that one in five Canadians will receive or be eligible for the Canada disability benefit. I believe it will be targeted at working-age individuals living with a disability who need supplemental income in addition to the income benefits they already get. It really has to be very targeted. That is why I think the consultation process across the country with provinces and territories, assessing the cost of living and looking at the basket of goods Canadian families need to purchase are very important. We need to design this benefit so that it works for all individuals who are of working age and who cannot work because of their disability.

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