Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister speak to whether -- I guess I'm wondering -- and this is going to take a bit of nuance and perhaps I'm asking the question with wrong -- whether the goal is to have a completely different program for peoples with disabilities and seniors who are not ever planning to re-enter the workforce, or to just have --to alter the rules? You know, I think we already have different payroll rules in regards to them under income assistance. And I guess what I'm getting at, would it -- there's a lot of other benefits flying around for seniors and peoples with disabilities and then income assistance itself through the regulations is very, very prescriptive in how the formula is allotted. But would it be possible -- is the plan that this would be a different stream and, for example, if MLAs wanted to increase it by 5 percent but not increase the other income assistance streams, would that be possible, or is this just simply some tweaks to the income assistance regulations for those people? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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