Morrice amends Canada Disability Benefit to include inflation indexing, barrier-free applications

A new Canada Disability Benefit from the federal government has gotten a Mike Morrice makeover.

The Kitchener Centre MP had five different amendments added to Bill C-22, or the Canada Disability Benefit Act, as committee meetings wrapped up Tuesday night. Nine amendments were approved by the multi-party committee.

Morrice’s changes that were adopted by the committee define the term disabled, make all agreements with the provinces and territories public, index the benefit to inflation, make the benefit application barrier-free and allow people with disabilities to have input as regulations are drawn up.