Qualtrough leads off fall sitting with landmark poverty reduction bill for ‘largest minority’
A 2021 poll found 88 per cent of Canadians support the idea of a Canada Disability Benefit, but it will have to contend with an uneven patchwork of existing disability programs at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels.
Opposition MPs say Canada must address the horrific poverty rates among people with disabilities, but contend the government’s fairly thin “framework” bill leaves much of the heavy lifting to regulations that have not yet been written. Meanwhile, policy experts say the lack of detail in the Ca...
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