The Trudeau government said it would make life easier for people with disabilities, but it didn’t have the money to do it
Heading into budget season this year, the federal Liberal government was caught between two promises: keeping the deficit in line with its projections, and launching a much anticipated new benefit for disabled Canadians.
Before the budget was tabled in April, expectations for the new federal benefit were high. The Liberals, with the help of the NDP, had pushed the Canada Disability Benefit Act through Parliament the previous summer, and had promised to reveal the details in the April budget.
Ottawa planned to spend $4.9-billion between then and 2029 on the benefit, according to the April budget – a disappointing amount for disabled people that reflected the realities of the government’s constrained finances. Ottawa’s new benefit is going to be available to 600,000 people, even though there are 1.6-million people in Canada with severe or very severe disabilities, according to the government’s own data.
The PBO says that existing provincial and territorial programs for people with disabilities fall short of the official poverty threshold by 40 per cent on average.
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