Budget 2022’s employment strategy for people with disabilities not a replacement for income support, warn advocates

The government tabled the Canada Disability Benefit before the election, but references to the promised legislation were conspicuously absent from the December fiscal update and from the April budget.

Carla Qualtrough, the minister of employment, workforce development, and disability inclusion, has the complicated job of designing a federal benefit that makes a real difference in the lives of people with disabilities aged 18 to 64. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

April 20, 2022

As MPs from all parties urge the government to fast-track legislation for a promised disability benefit left out of the budget, advocates say the employment strategy outlined in the federal government's 2022 budget won’t work if people with disabilities lose access to existing benefits faster than...

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