Starrett: From Royal Assent to Reality: Let’s Make the Canada Disability Benefit Canada’s Story of Progress
This past week, Bill C-22, the “Act to reduce poverty and to support the financial security of persons with disabilities by establishing the Canada disability benefit”, moved quickly through final stages of approval. Then, late in the evening of June 22, while many high school students were celebrating the beginning of summer vacation, the disability sector coast to coast cheered for the moment we all had been waiting for: Bill C-22 received Royal Assent.
Our Easter Seals community across Canada has advocated and worked towards this historic moment for many years.
After all, as we hear daily from our colleagues coast to coast, what is the point of providing people with disabilities a new benefit if third parties can just reduce it or take it away? Let’s remember during the regulatory phase that the need for these essentials of life continue beyond age 65 and not allow seniors with disabilities to be legislated into poverty by an age cap on the benefit.
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